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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Maps

There are several maps in Heritage Collections – Map section.  Located on level four of the State Library of Queensland

• Tribal boundaries in Aboriginal Australia [Maps 904 04700c 1996] also available on the Internet http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/page/default.asp?site=2&page=TIN_Tribal

• Aboriginal Australian Language map, [M 804 1999 04700 F] Dr David Horton’s for AIATSIS (Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) Represent all the language and tribal of the indigenous people of Australia also available on the Internet http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/pathways.asp

• Language Atlas. Pacific Area. Part I 1981 [Maps 910 00000e 1981] Maps of New Guinea area, Oceania, Australia and Torres Straits Region. show the language situation as it appears to have existed at the time of the first European settlement at the end of the 18th Century.

• Northern Territory of Australia Pastoral Map (1953) [Maps 870 02000r 1953] Northern Territory Road Plan (pre 1951). These two sheet maps details include bores, waterholes, pastoral stations, missions, reserves and stock routes.

• History of Cartography: V, 2 Bk 3 edited by Woodward and Harley 1998 [MAPREF 526.09 1987] A wide range of media were, and in some regions are, used by indigenous Australians in representing sites and landscapes and their totemic and mythic figures”.

• Pacific Island Names: a Map and Name Guide to the New Pacific By Lee S. Motteler 1986 [MAPREF 912.9 1986]. Provide names and relationships of the Pacific Island groups. The alphabetic index contains in addition to all island names listed, numerous variant names not shown elsewhere e.g. Indigenous and colonial name.  Chelbacheb = (Rock Islands) in Belau.

• The Land is a Map : Place names of Indigenous Origin in Australia [MAPREF 919.4003 2002]. Index to Places and Place names and an index and Languages and Language Groups at the back of the volume.

• Atlas of Queensland and the Northern Territory Pastoral Stations; Atlas of Central Queensland Pastoral Stations [ATLAS 912.943 1995] An alphabetic index of Property Names for New South Wales, Queensland and eastern sections of Northern Territory. They are useful for finding rural centres and properties.

• Country Matters: Social Atlas of Rural and Regional Australia [GSB 338.1894 2004]. Population distribution and structure, examines Australian demographics. There are sections of statistics including Indigenous Population and Change in the Number of Indigenous People, 1991-1996.

• Brisbane ..A Social Atlas (2002) [MAPREF 319.43 102232002] and Gold Coast Region.. A Social Atlas (1994) [MAPDESK 912.13120994 1994] ABS publications give a picture of the key social, demographic and economic characteristics of an area’s population.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family History

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family History

Tracing an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander line – getting started

• Find where the family came from and names.
• Find missions, stations, tribes/clans/ Torres Strait Strait Island in those locations to search for resources.

• Contact appropriate family history institutes.

Ø      State Library of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/ind

Ø      linkup (adoptions) http://www.link-upqld.org.au/

Ø      community and personal histories (Queensland State Archives resources and more) http://www.atsip.qld.gov.au/people/family-history/community-personal-history/

Ø      AIATSIS's (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) family history unit http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/fhu/start.htm

Ø      Queensland State Archives www.archives.qld.gov.au

·         View MURA® which is AIATSIS's (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/muraread.html , especially their Aboriginal Biographical Index

State Library Queensland resources

·        Norman Tindale Collection – several Aboriginal mission genealogical records http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/coll/aptsi/tindale

·        Margaret Lawrie Collection – Torres Strait Islander genealogical records and community information http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/coll/aptsi/lawrie

·        Anglican Church Records – photographic collection

·        Heritage Collection Photographic Collection (Index in progress)

·        Station records in the original material collection

·        Presbyterian Church of Australia Board of Ecumenical Mission and Relations : Mapoon Mission Station 1893-1963 register for Births and Baptisms 1893-1957 -- Marriages 1902-1956 -- Deaths 1897-1959

·        Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Index (Index in progress)

For a more accurate result of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resources, please view our OneSearch on line catalogue.

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