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Pioneer registers - why are they useful?
Many family and local history groups have collated and published pioneer registers for their district. These registers contain biographical and genealogical details of many of the early settlers who resided in that district.
Here is a small sample of some of the pioneer registers held by the State Library of Queensland:
Queensland
- Ipswich and district pioneer register pre 1914 (2 vols)
- Darling Downs biographical register to 1900 (2 vols)
- Maryborough pioneers 1848-1868
- Far North Queensland pioneer register to 1940
- Gympie pioneer register : pre 1900
- Central Queensland pioneer register (Rockhampton)
NSW
- Illawarra pioneers : pre 1920
- Coonabarabran pioneer register to 1900
- Pioneers & settlers of Lake Macquarie
- Pioneer register of New England from first settlement to Federation
- Pioneer register pre-Federation for the Bega Valley Shire
- Griffith & district pioneers : a biographical register (4 vols)
- Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and district
For further information please see our website - http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/fh/
Image: Alfred and Jack Perkins, early settlers at Upper Murray, south of Tully, North Queensland
1 Comment
It would be so good if they were online rather than CD rom.
Comment added 11am, Monday 18th Oct 10 by "Lesley Charlton"
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