Indexes
GSQ holds unique records which are being added to on a regular basis. Most of these indexes are only available to members, via MyGSQ, once they have logged into the GSQ site. You may also view other members’ interest areas.
MyGSQ currently contains the following:
Funeral Director's Records Index
This index includes the records for some funeral directors, memorial inscriptions and lone graves.
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. Indexes relate to both these cemeteries.
Pedigree charts index
These charts have been lodged with GSQ by members, past and present, over a number of years. The charts can be viewed at GSQ during opening hours.
Family tree charts
This index was created some time ago and published in appreciation of those people who submitted their chart to GSQ for safe-keeping. The family tree charts may be accessed by members at GSQ during opening hours.
Unrelated certificates Index
These certificates have been lodged with GSQ by members, past and present, over many years. The certificates were obtained by members during their research and found to be unrelated to that research and have been lodged at GSQ in the hope other researchers may find them useful.
Queensland muster roll
Originally created as a Bicentennial project in 1988, the Q150 (2009) project has updated and added to the existing register through contributions from GSQ members and other family historians. 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.
Wheeler Project
GSQ has transcribed index cards held by the State Library Queensland compiled during WW1 by central Queenslander, Annie Margaret Wheeler (nee Laurie). Annie Laurie was born in 1867, to Scottish-born parents, at Dingo, about 150 kilometres west of Rockhampton, married Henry Wheeler in 1896 and had one child, a daughter. She was decorated with an OBE in 1919 for caring for the needs of Australian troops in London during World War 1. Annie kept an index card on each of 'her soldiers', recording what she knew about them. Annie died in 1950 and her memorial plaque is at Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens. GSQ is transcribing these cards and researching the families. As this is an ongoing project, only some of the records are online but are being added to on a regular basis.
Qld Communal Settlers
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.
Qld Methodist Times
The Methodist Times was the official communication newspaper from the church synod to its congregations. Most images contained in this record set are from the 1965-1969 editions of the publication.
GSQ GIF Project
This project started in October 2014 and finished in September 2017. The purpose of the project was to digitise the General Index Cards and create an online index that would allow members easy access to the information in the future. The content of these files are people, places and things.It consists of approximately 180,000 cards.
Members’ interest areas
Members can now submit their surnames and areas of interest. An email address must be included so that other members who may be researching the same families or locality can make contact and share information.
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MyGSQ is not a general membership database ― that is maintained separately by the Society. Data held in MyGSQ are subject to modification or deletion without notice.