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Gympie Cemetery database available online

The Gympie Cemetery Trust have released a searchable grave database for the Gympie Cemetery. Entries can include information such as date of death, date of funeral, date of birth as well as the grave plot number. The database also pinpoints the position of the grave on a map.

Many of Gympie's early pioneers can be found in this database including:

• James Nash - acknowledged as the first person to discover gold in Gympie in 1867 (buried 6 October 1913)
• John Flood - Newspaper owner/editor. Former convict/exile (buried 28 August 1909)

http://www.gympiecemeterytrust.com.au/index.php/research/deceased-search

Database - child migration to Canada (1869-1930)

Libraries and Archives Canada has released a database of over 100,000 juvenile migrants who were sent to Canada from Great Britain during the child emigration movement between 1869 and the late 1930's. The majority of these "Home Children" were orphaned, abandoned or paupers, sent out by churches and philanthropic organisations such as Dr Barnado's Home.

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/home-children/001015-130-e.html

Dictionary of Sydney project and database

"The Dictionary of Sydney is a groundbreaking project to produce a new kind of history of Sydney: online, growing and changing, covering every aspect of human life.

The Dictionary contains new historical writing enriched with other resources – images, maps, sound, music, oral history, film, documents and pointers to important objects in Sydney collections.

Contributors include academics, professional historians, heritage specialists, local studies experts, genealogists, enthusiasts, volunteers and readers."

View the dictionary/database online - http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/about.html

[text taken from Dictionary of Sydney website]

Photo: S.S. Ormiston sailing under Sydney Harbour bridge. The bridge is still under construction. Sydney city skyline and Circular Quay are in the background. (Source: Picture Queensland)

Launch of Connected Histories database - UK

"Connected Histories provides an integrated search facility for interrogating 11 major electronic resources in early modern and 19th-century British history."

Electronic resources include:

• British History Online
• Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540 - 1835
• London Lives 1690 - 1900
• John Strype's Survey of London Online
• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Online, 1674-1913
• Origins.net
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

In September 2011 several additional resources will be added.

Some resources searched by the database are fee-based.

http://www.connectedhistories.org/

Index to miners involved in Queensland mining accidents (1882-1900)

Queensland mining accidents were published annually in the Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings (later known as Queensland Parliamentary Papers) from 1882 to 1945.

An index to miners involved in Queensland mining accidents from 1882 to 1900 can be searched via the State Library of Queensland’s website at http://fhr.slq.qld.gov.au/minacc 

(An index to mining accidents for the period 1901-1930 is under development.)

Each entry records the date of the accident, the name of the mine where the accident took place and a remarks column which briefly details the accidents. The source column refers to the year,volume and page number in the Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings (e.g.1901/4/464 is 1901, volume 4, page 464). The Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings (Queensland Parliamentary Papers) is available on microfilm (MFL 328.943) at the State Library’s South Bank building on level 3.

Index to persons called before Queensland Government Committees

Boring title - great resource!

The index to persons called before government committees (1860 to 1920) is available on the State Library of Queensland website:

1860 – 1901 : http://fhr.slq.qld.gov.au/committees/

1902 – 1920 http://fhr.slq.qld.gov.au/committees2/

A wide variety of people from different backgrounds and occupations were called to give evidence before these committees. They included farmers, graziers, publicans, seamen, miners, labourers, civil servants and railway employees.

For family and local historians an individual’s transcript can often provide excellent background information on the person that may not be available in any other document. There is also the advantage of reading the person’s view in their own words.

Minutes of the evidence to most of the early Queensland royal commissions, select committees and other government inquiries can be found in the Queensland Legislative Assembly Votes and Proceedings (QLA V&P) (later known as the Queensland Parliamentary Papers) which is available on microform at the State Library of Queensland.

Cairns district cemeteries online

A cemeteries database for the Cairns district is now available on the Cairns Regional Council website.

The following cemeteries can be searched:

• Babinda Cemetery
• Forest View Memorial Park Lawn Cemetery
• Gordonvale Cemetery
• Martyn Street Cemetery
• Nelson Road Cemetery Babinda
• McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery
• Mossman Cemetery
• Port Douglas Cemetery

http://www.cairns.qld.gov.au/facilities-and-recreation/cemeteries

NEW DATABASE - 19th Century British Library Newspapers

The State Library of Queensland has now subscribed to:

19th Century British Library Newspapers 

A rich collection of primary source material, this database provides full runs of 48 titles from the 19th-century, totaling more than two million easily searchable pages. This is a fantastic resource for family historians tracing their English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish ancestors.

This database can be used offsite (ie. at home) by e-services members or Queensland public library (QPL) account holders. Offsite access is only available to Queenslanders.You can connect to the database at:

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/find/articles/offsite

Queenslanders can register for an e-service cards at:

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/ecard