GSQ member only resources
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SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES [RootsIreland, TheGenealogist, MyHeritage, Fold3, Irish Ancestors, Newspapers.com]
FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S RECORDS [Cannon & Cripps, KM Smith, Tucker & Nankivell, Metropolitan, Alex Gow, John Hislop, Funerals of Distinction, TT Cornes, JG Lohrish]
WATERLOO SOLDIERS IN AUSTRALIA [The Waterloo Soldiers in Australia Database is compiled from five large files of meticulously researched material donated to GSQ by Kerrie Alexander. She became interested in Waterloo soldiers who came to Australia when researching her husband’s great great grandfather almost 20 years ago. Through advertisements in magazines, genealogy forums and hard old-fashioned library research, Kerrie gathered together the stories of over 120 veterans who spent time in Australia. Some arrived aboard convict ships as guards, others as free settlers and a couple as convicts themselves. Data provided by the index includes regiments, arrival ships, places they lived and dates and places of death. Attached PDF documents may also contain discharge papers, biographies, obituaries, BMD details, timelines, newspaper articles, grave locations and photographs, book extracts and family histories.]
WHEELER PROJECT [GSQ has transcribed index cards held by the State Library Queensland compiled during WW1 by central Queenslander, Annie Margaret Wheeler (nee Laurie).
These hold the names of 2794 soldiers and nurses. Mrs Wheeler recognised the difficulties facing servicemen and women and their families in central Queensland maintaining contact. She kept a detailed card index on each, corresponding with soldiers and nurses on the battlefield; liaising with their families, forwarding mail and parcels, supervising their care in hospital and providing financial assistance during their recuperation in England.]
QUEENSLAND METHODIST TIMES [The Methodist Times was the official communication newspaper from the church synod to its congregations. It was originally published as a weekly periodical and is now published monthly as Journey magazine . Distributed to all congregations, it kept members aware of the church's wider mission at home and overseas. It included editorial, inspirational messages, personal stories, youth pages, obituaries and some advertising. Most images contained in this record set are from the 1965-1969 editions of the publication.]
QUEENSLAND MUSTER ROLL [The Muster Roll is a biographical register of over 25,000 pioneers resident in the colony of Queensland between Separation in 1859 and Federation in 1901, an important period of Queensland’s history, when it had its own unique identity, neither part of the colony of New South Wales nor a state in the Australian Federation. The register contains birth and family details; occupations, businesses and properties; death details; and names of spouses and children, as well as other known facts about individuals.]
QUEENSLAND COMMUNAL SETTLERS REGISTER 1893-1896 [It is a little known fact that between December 1893 and February 1896 up to 2000 people lived in government-sponsored communes across Queensland. In response to high unemployment, a severe economic downturn, disastrous flooding and a surge in popularity of communal experimentation, the Queensland Government introduced The Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Act of 1893. Under the terms of the Act agricultural land was made available to groups of 30 or more men who were prepared to live on and farm the land communally. The men had to be aged 18 or over, natural born or naturalised British subjects and to have been resident in Queensland for at least a year. Twelve groups were formed, initially with a total of 485 male members, most of whom were married with families. A further 61 members were admitted later. One group was formed entirely of Ipswich residents, however most groups were comprised of men from Brisbane with a small number of members drawn from places such as Cairns, Charters Towers, Charleville and Thargomindah. The groups struggled for around two years before the government withdrew support and dissolved them. Many members had not even changed their entry on electoral rolls in that time, so for many families little evidence remains of their participation in the scheme, making this register a valuable resource for family research. The register lists the 546 members of settlements formed under The Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Act of 1893 and the groups to which they belonged. It is enriched with information such as age, occupation, name of spouse, births and deaths during the settlement years and more, where further research has made positive identification of the men possible. Not included in this register are the members of three other, non-government-sponsored communes known to have been formed in Queensland in the 1890s.]
CEMETERY DEMOLITION INDEXES [In 1975, hundreds of worn, supposedly forgotten headstones in three major city cemeteries were removed by Brisbane City Council workmen employed under the Regional Employment Development Scheme. Two of these cemeteries were Toowong and South Brisbane. A handwritten record of each was kept and is now in the GSQ library. The advantage of looking at the original copy of what was in the record and on the headstone is that, sometimes, there is extra information re dates, names, relationships, cause of death etc to be found. For this database, indexed are all the names from this record and the page in the book where further information may be available. Also listed are the names by surname, (a) for adult, (c) for child, most often the date of burial, but occasionally the date of death, year of death and page number in the book. Some information was incorrect in the book so, with the help of the BCC Cemetery Search, this has been corrected it where possible. Some surnames were also spelt in differing ways on the same headstone or in the BCC Cemetery Search site. Other names or dates were indecipherable or not found in any BCC record.]
GENERATION JOURNAL [All issues of GSQ's Generation journal (1979 to the current day) have been digitised and are available for download by GSQ members. There is also a searchable index by both item title and volume and issue.]
UNRELATED CERTIFICATES [These certificates have been donated by members who have obtained them in Australia and from overseas and found them to be unrelated to their research. The index now includes the digital image of each certificate. All images have been scanned to the highest resolution possible but some originals were of poor quality.]
SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES [RootsIreland, TheGenealogist, MyHeritage, Fold3, Irish Ancestors, Newspapers.com]
FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S RECORDS [Cannon & Cripps, KM Smith, Tucker & Nankivell, Metropolitan, Alex Gow, John Hislop, Funerals of Distinction, TT Cornes, JG Lohrish]
WATERLOO SOLDIERS IN AUSTRALIA [The Waterloo Soldiers in Australia Database is compiled from five large files of meticulously researched material donated to GSQ by Kerrie Alexander. She became interested in Waterloo soldiers who came to Australia when researching her husband’s great great grandfather almost 20 years ago. Through advertisements in magazines, genealogy forums and hard old-fashioned library research, Kerrie gathered together the stories of over 120 veterans who spent time in Australia. Some arrived aboard convict ships as guards, others as free settlers and a couple as convicts themselves. Data provided by the index includes regiments, arrival ships, places they lived and dates and places of death. Attached PDF documents may also contain discharge papers, biographies, obituaries, BMD details, timelines, newspaper articles, grave locations and photographs, book extracts and family histories.]
WHEELER PROJECT [GSQ has transcribed index cards held by the State Library Queensland compiled during WW1 by central Queenslander, Annie Margaret Wheeler (nee Laurie).
These hold the names of 2794 soldiers and nurses. Mrs Wheeler recognised the difficulties facing servicemen and women and their families in central Queensland maintaining contact. She kept a detailed card index on each, corresponding with soldiers and nurses on the battlefield; liaising with their families, forwarding mail and parcels, supervising their care in hospital and providing financial assistance during their recuperation in England.]
QUEENSLAND METHODIST TIMES [The Methodist Times was the official communication newspaper from the church synod to its congregations. It was originally published as a weekly periodical and is now published monthly as Journey magazine . Distributed to all congregations, it kept members aware of the church's wider mission at home and overseas. It included editorial, inspirational messages, personal stories, youth pages, obituaries and some advertising. Most images contained in this record set are from the 1965-1969 editions of the publication.]
QUEENSLAND MUSTER ROLL [The Muster Roll is a biographical register of over 25,000 pioneers resident in the colony of Queensland between Separation in 1859 and Federation in 1901, an important period of Queensland’s history, when it had its own unique identity, neither part of the colony of New South Wales nor a state in the Australian Federation. The register contains birth and family details; occupations, businesses and properties; death details; and names of spouses and children, as well as other known facts about individuals.]
QUEENSLAND COMMUNAL SETTLERS REGISTER 1893-1896 [It is a little known fact that between December 1893 and February 1896 up to 2000 people lived in government-sponsored communes across Queensland. In response to high unemployment, a severe economic downturn, disastrous flooding and a surge in popularity of communal experimentation, the Queensland Government introduced The Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Act of 1893. Under the terms of the Act agricultural land was made available to groups of 30 or more men who were prepared to live on and farm the land communally. The men had to be aged 18 or over, natural born or naturalised British subjects and to have been resident in Queensland for at least a year. Twelve groups were formed, initially with a total of 485 male members, most of whom were married with families. A further 61 members were admitted later. One group was formed entirely of Ipswich residents, however most groups were comprised of men from Brisbane with a small number of members drawn from places such as Cairns, Charters Towers, Charleville and Thargomindah. The groups struggled for around two years before the government withdrew support and dissolved them. Many members had not even changed their entry on electoral rolls in that time, so for many families little evidence remains of their participation in the scheme, making this register a valuable resource for family research. The register lists the 546 members of settlements formed under The Co-operative Communities Land Settlement Act of 1893 and the groups to which they belonged. It is enriched with information such as age, occupation, name of spouse, births and deaths during the settlement years and more, where further research has made positive identification of the men possible. Not included in this register are the members of three other, non-government-sponsored communes known to have been formed in Queensland in the 1890s.]
CEMETERY DEMOLITION INDEXES [In 1975, hundreds of worn, supposedly forgotten headstones in three major city cemeteries were removed by Brisbane City Council workmen employed under the Regional Employment Development Scheme. Two of these cemeteries were Toowong and South Brisbane. A handwritten record of each was kept and is now in the GSQ library. The advantage of looking at the original copy of what was in the record and on the headstone is that, sometimes, there is extra information re dates, names, relationships, cause of death etc to be found. For this database, indexed are all the names from this record and the page in the book where further information may be available. Also listed are the names by surname, (a) for adult, (c) for child, most often the date of burial, but occasionally the date of death, year of death and page number in the book. Some information was incorrect in the book so, with the help of the BCC Cemetery Search, this has been corrected it where possible. Some surnames were also spelt in differing ways on the same headstone or in the BCC Cemetery Search site. Other names or dates were indecipherable or not found in any BCC record.]
GENERATION JOURNAL [All issues of GSQ's Generation journal (1979 to the current day) have been digitised and are available for download by GSQ members. There is also a searchable index by both item title and volume and issue.]
UNRELATED CERTIFICATES [These certificates have been donated by members who have obtained them in Australia and from overseas and found them to be unrelated to their research. The index now includes the digital image of each certificate. All images have been scanned to the highest resolution possible but some originals were of poor quality.]