Shipping and immigration records online
Finding an ancestor’s arrival in Australia can be challenging, but there is an increasing number of ways to track them. Queensland State Archives, the National Archives of Australia and State Library of Queensland hold the major Australian shipping records for the 19th and 20th centuries. On Friday 3 August, as part of National Family History Month 2018, key staff from these three organisations came together to discuss their records and how to use them to discover your family history.
Drawing of migrants disembarking from a ship ca. 1885, State Library of Queensland, Neg. no. 62474, http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/127188
Queensland State Archives (QSA)
Other useful records include immigration agent records, which may provide details of where an immigrant went, and who employed them after their arrival, and land orders, which may help establish if a person was resident in Queensland at a particular time.
National Archives of Australia (NAA)
State Library of Queensland
View the full Shipping and immigration records online presentation now.
Fiona Dixon, Librarian
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