Archives for genealogists

Research Guide to archives for genealogists at Queensland State Archives. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that our catalogue contains images, names and voices of people who have died. Records include: admission registers for many State (government) schools; protective asylum files; early change of name (deed poll) files; divorce files to 1976; First Nations records; inquest files; early insolvency and liquation files; land tenure records such as Crown leases of all types, e.g. selections (farms) and pastoral leases (stations) as well as real property (conveyancing for land transfers); maps (cadastral and topographic); hydrographic charts; Naturalisations prior to 1908; passenger manifests for assisted immigrant ships from 1848; assisted and nominated immigrant records; Queensland Police Gazettes; staff records for teachers, police officers, and selected public servants; State electoral rolls; wills and intestacies (Supreme Court and Public Trustee).