Search indexes to Queensland material held at State Library. Explore our databases for details from Australia and worldwide.

Family history eresources and indexes

Our guides cover various&nbsp;family history topics. They give details on resources, useful websites and&nbsp;research hints.

Family history research guides

Find websites from Australia and overseas that will&nbsp;help you with your family history research.

Useful websites for family historians

Discover our family history blogs. Find interesting websites, learn new research skills and read some amazing tales.

Family history blogs

View our family history videos on topics like birth, death and marriage records; immigration, house histories and more.

Family history webcasts

Resources for family historians

Man looking at photograph at the Caboolture public library

Need help starting your family history? The first stage in doing a family history is to do a family tree.&nbsp;Read our guide on how to begin tracing your family tree. Find out the steps to follow, and where to start looking for information.

Tracing your family tree

Get to know State Library collections and how they can help you find out more about your family.

First Nations material and information accessed on this site may be culturally sensitive for some individuals and communities.

Young Aboriginal women with their babies and small children, Mapoon, 1914

First Nations family history

Every house has a history. Discover and explore resources for tracing the history of a house and the land it's built on. View our video guides to learn about what information you need, and where to search for it.

Houses hold memories that last beyond a lifetime. If your walls could talk, ever wondered what tales they’d tell? Maybe they’d whisper secrets from families before you, gloat about the status they’ve held in Queensland communities over the years or tell stories about how their fixtures and features came to be. Explore video guides on each topic for&nbsp;handy tips and to&nbsp;introduce you to the resources you’ll need.

House histories

Single storey, weatherboard house with a corrugated iron roof and a chain link and timber fence at Maryborough.

Find&nbsp;letters sent to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales from early Moreton Bay officials. Discover&nbsp;what they can tell you about your family history and early Queensland history.

Colonial Secretary's letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1860

John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Colonial Secretary's letters

Many convicts who came to Australia went on to become respectful members of society. Convict Queenslanders are people who arrived in Australia as convicts. They then made their way to Queensland where they became a part of the colony's history.

Convict Queenslanders

On this page you will find information about accessing the resources of State Library of Queensland's Family History collections. There are links to&nbsp;eresources,&nbsp;websites and research guides to&nbsp;help you with your genealogical research.

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An unidentified family having a picnic somewhere in the Queensland bush, early 1900s. The family and friends are eating food carried to the picnic spot in large wicker baskets, and are drinking tea from a large teapot, visible in the centre of the image. Horses have been freed from their carriages, and are tethered to trees in the background.