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This updated and expanded edition has information about sources, research strategies and problem solving techniques for family history research in Queensland, with helpful hints and money-saving tips. The book describes various records and indexes on the Internet and at Queensland State Archives, National Archives, Educational History Unit, Department of Families, State and genealogical libraries etc. The previous edition has been significantly updated and expanded, and new topics have been added including divorce, originating summonses, Pre-Separation, protection orders, undertakings (Home Secretary's Office and Premier's Department), and nurses, masseurs and shearers. It also deals with births, deaths and marriages (civil registration and alternative sources including cemetery records); identifying the father of an illegitimate child; orphans; adoption records; maintenance payments for deserted wives/children; wills and intestacies; immigration; electoral rolls (useful for tracing people's movements); missing persons and people who 'vanished'; the 'black sheep' of the family; mental asylum and Dunwich Benevolent Asylum records; police watchhouse charge books; CPS police charge bench books; prison records; criminal depositions; murder files; Police Gazettes; Government Gazettes; inquests; preliminary enquiries and other 'no inquest' records; insolvencies; hospital admission registers and related records; old age pension applicants; equity files; hotels and publicans; miners, teachers, dentists, doctors, chemists/druggists, engineers, solicitors, police, public servants, railway employees, ship's crew; land tenure records; Wallangarra quarantine registers (1918-1919 influenza epidemic); school admission registers and school files; Qld State Archives publications, facilities and services.