
Collections on display
Visit us during August and enjoy our collection display in the level 3 reading room.
The display includes essential resources for family history research, with notes about each items' usefulness.
You can also sit back and enjoy a lovely digitial display of images from our collection.
Ask our librarians and library technicians at the level 3 information desk for guidance witrh your family history research.
The German pioneers who arrived in the Susanne Goddefroy in 1864, Brisbane Courier, 31 Jan 1914, pg12
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Write your family’s migration story (part 2)
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Unlocking access to FamilySearch Affiliate records
Cribb and Foote family photograph
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.