Cross-check information as much as possible. Church records monumental inscriptions and other cemetery records undertakers' records probate records indexes to newspaper birth, death and marriage records. This is useful for checking information and finding errors. Again there are plenty of sources from the Net, societies, and in handbooks. Find out more about the lives of your family in their historical, geographical, social and occupational contexts.
Check directories, newspapers, maps, gazetteers, histories, government and local records.
This page last revised 24 August 2001 by the Family History Unit part of the Special Collections Division of the State Library with assistance from the Internet Services Unit Comments and information enquiries to Family History Unit Feedback State Library of Queensland 1999-2001.