Queensland Family History Society

Find your family – in Queensland and throughout the world. This friendly and supportive society provides access, assistance, connection, and affordability.

Access
A wide array of resources is available, including:
· Large international databases e.g. Ancestry, MyHeritage, FindMyPast
· Journals from 95 other family history societies
· 10,000 books (a reference library specialising in Queensland families and localities and a lending library of mostly family histories)
· Thousands of microfiche & microfilm
And specifically pertinent to Queensland
· Electoral rolls
· School records
· Cemetery records
· Shipping information
· Recorded presentations

Assistance
A variety of educational events are created to stimulate and enhance knowledge and expertise in family history and related subjects. These feature expert local, national, and international speakers, and may be presented online, or at the Family History Research Centre in Chermside. We also offer AskQFHS to answer quick questions and offer members who cannot attend the Research Centre – a ‘look-up’ service. An extended research service is available to members and Non-members for a fee.

Connection
Hang out with genea-friends via our many special interest groups, workshops, social activities and by volunteering. No one ‘gets you’ quite like another family historian! Our special interest groups cover specific interests such as DNA and writing your family’s stories, software user groups, and the geographic areas of Central Europe, Colonial India and the Far East, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the English West country, and Pre-Separation Queensland.

Affordability
QFHS subscribes to the following websites, available at the Family History Research Centre:
· Ancestry Library Edition
· British Newspaper Archive
· Findmypast
· Irish Ancestors
· MyHeritage Library Edition
· TheGenealogist

Access, assistance and connection – available free for financial members. Non-members may access our resources for a daily fee of $20. Should you wish to join QFHS within two weeks of your visit, this fee will be deducted from your first year’s subscription.