Maryborough District Family History Society Inc Resources

The Maryborough District Family History Society Inc. publishes widely and operates one of the biggest history libraries outside capital cities, with some 40,000 books, microfilm, microfiche, and CD's. It also offers an efficient research service.

The Society's extensive library contains the usual resources found in family history organisations everywhere, plus many unique records.
For example:

RESOURCES for MARYBOROUGH

Passenger lists for over 80 immigrant ships arriving Maryborough
Queensland State Archive records for Maryborough prior to 1900
Scrapbooks containing anniversaries, notable citizens, etc.
School records for many schools in the Wide Bay region
Maryborough Chronicle newspaper indexes for 1860 - 1940
Maryborough Fire Brigade callout records
Catholic Church records
Maryborough undertakers records
Burial and cemetery records
Family histories

RESOURCES for QUEENSLAND

Include births, deaths, and marriages indexes, immigration, electoral rolls, post office directories, cemeteries, and pre-separation index.

RESOURCES for NEW SOUTH WALES

Include births, deaths, and marriages indexes, extensive convict records, immigration, probate index, and census records.

RESOURCES for OTHER STATES

Include births, deaths, and marriages indexes, convict records, and immigration records.

RESOURCES for OVERSEAS

Include British wills and probate records, City of London Burials, German Immigration records, Irish Tithe Defaulters, Aliens naturalised in New Zealand 1843 - 1916, and Irish Old Age pension claims name index.

IF WE HAVEN'T GOT IT

If we haven't got the information you seek we do have a pretty good idea of who (if anyone) does, and can probably get it for you !

Developed 1999, updated 2002 by David Kidd (man@dkd.net).