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Family history month
August is National Family History Month Australasia and State Library of Queensland joins various libraries, archives, genealogy societies and other organisations in celebrating this event. It's a great time to start exploring your family tree or follow new leads.


Getting started
Our family history pages are a great place to start for family history research.
- Find out the steps involved in tracing your family tree.
- Consult our useful websites for family historians and discover more places to search online.
- Research guides will help to lead you on new and interesting paths.
- Search our free indexes to see if your ancestor appears.
- Become a member to access historical newspaper databases from home.
- Ask a librarian for help researching your family history
Who's Your Mob?
Discover key resources for First Nations family history research.
- Getting started
- Births, deaths and marriages
- Station, mission, police and church records
- Newspapers
- Photographs
- Tindale genealogical collection
- Margaret Lawrie genealogical collection