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Queensland's Past Online

Queensland's Past Online (http://www.uq.edu.au/centreqld/queensland-s-past-online) is a collaborative project between a number of key participants who are bringing together a wide variety of material about Queensland over the last 150 years - government publications as well as a host of other interesting material. The participants include:

• Centre for the Government of Queensland
• University of Queensland
• Fryer Library, University of Queensland
• University of Queensland Press
• Queensland Government
• State Library of Queensland
• Royal Historical Society of Queensland
• Queensland State Archives
• National Library of Australia
• Queensland Museum

The site is still being developed but already there is a lot of great material to search (and download) at  http://tinyurl.com/4eewkp7 . Also check out http://tinyurl.com/4hher6v .

Look for lots more interesting books still to come!

Edinburgh ancestors? Try AddressingHistory

AddressingHistory is a searchable, historical database of the people of Edinburgh, Scotland. The database currently contains the Post Office Directories for the years 1784-5; 1865 and 1905-6. The website also contains old maps of Edinburgh which have been digitised.

http://addressinghistory.edina.ac.uk/

More Scottish Directories

Quite a number of Scottish Post Office Directories are available through the National Library of Scotland but many more are available at the Internet Archive site (http://ht.ly/3YyMi) - currently 681 directories with more added regularly (in early November 2010 there were just over 500 available). They cover the period from the late 1700s to 1911/12.

The directories can be read (and searched) online - also available as pdf, epub, Kindle, Daisy, Full text and DjVu.

A must for all with Scottish research!

Chinese family history - SLQ

Linda Hore's item points out how useful SLQ can be -

newspapers

government gazettes

She did not emphasise -

 post office directories

electoral rolls

early pioneer index  (pre-separation index)

It would be great to have a talk from experience Chinese researchers for those of us starting out

Ah Foo's grocery store Goondiwindi 1906 - a great picture for some of us.

My email is: moc.liamtoh@eeleismik

“How Reliable is that Family History Website?” - 27.02.11, 2:00pm

Sunday 27th February

“How Reliable is that Website?” – Sue Reid (QFHS President) A demonstration of various family history websites to assess how exhaustive and valid their content.

QUEENSLAND CHAPTER AUSTRALIAN HUGUENOT SOCIETY

Venue: Toowong Library Meeting Room, Toowong Shopping Centre, 9 Sherwood Road, Toowong, Brisbane

Time: 2:00pm

Cost: Members $5, Non-members $10

Refreshments served after meeting

Enquiries: Phone (07) 3202 9240

Time: 2:00pm

Date: Sun 27th Feb, 2011

Location: Toowong Library Meeting Room, Toowong Shopping Centre, 9 Sherwood Road, Toowong, Brisbane

Queensland Post Office Directories

One of our most common questions:

Why is my ancestor not in the post office directories?

Check Rod Fisher's article Directories to people, places and patterns in Queensland since 1868 (Archives and Approaches II, BHG Paper No 7, 1988).

Rod covers the historical role of directories and specifically covers the development of the Qld Post Office directories which vary in content and publishing history. He explains how they were compiled and discusses their reliability. He covers 13 different ways they can be applied in your research and the procedures to follow.

Why is someone not listed?

He gives 9 possibilities including:

• The person was an employee not the owner of a business, which usually would be listed under the owner's name
• The person had moved elsewhere to live with family or friends, or to a boarding-house or a hotel, or to a hospital in old age or because of poor health
• The directory does not list householders if a trade directory or almanac

Find out what the others are in Archives and Approaches II G 994.31 1988 on the open shelves Level 3

My email is: moc.liamg@701rsms