About Queensland Family History Society

The Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) in Australia was formed in 1979. It is a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation that aims to promote the study of family history, local history, genealogy and heraldry, and to encourage the collection and preservation of records relating to the history of Queensland families. The Society’s premises are at Gaythorne, a northside Brisbane suburb. It is Queensland’s leading family history and genealogy organisation and has the state’s largest genealogical bookshop. The library is open to members and paying non-members.

Holdings include records to assist the researcher wherever their families have originated:

• Atlases, maps and gazetteers covering Australia, UK and most of Europe
• Probate indexes
• Birth, death and marriage indexes
• Cemetery records
• Convict records
• Electoral rolls
• Shipping records
• Government and Police gazettes
• Post office directories
• and many other resources on families and local history

Queensland FHS records online

The Queensland FHS has partnered with findmypast to publish online record sets from its extensive publications program. You can read more information about these record sets by selecting each option from the list on the left-hand side of this page.

Ordering copies of documents

The Queensland FHS provides a research service. Further information on this is available at www.qfhs.org.au/research/eResearch.html.