People sitting at tables in State Library of Queensland 1945

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

First Nations family history
Photograph of the inside of the Parliamentary Library, Queensland, 1949.
Family history eresources and indexes

Discover information about your ancestors in State Library's indexes and databases.

Trundle family portrait, ca. 1916
Useful websites

Find websites to help you with your family history research.

Ginn family gather around to watch television in Brisbane, Queensland 1959. In copyright. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Neg 68711
Family history webcasts

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

Group of people sitting at tables under a tree, having a picnic.
Family history blogs

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

Photograph of the Trackson family

Learn the steps needed to find and record information to start tracing your family, and creating your family tree.

Colonial Secretary's letters

Discover your family history through letters to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales from early Moreton Bay officials.

Discover and explore resources for tracing the history of a house and the land it's built on. 

Portrait of William Groom

Discover some of Queensland's pioneers who first came to Australia as convicts.

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