Interest Groups - History Gold Coast

Art and Craft | Cars, Bikes | Children, Youth | Church, Religion
Community | Dance | Environmental | Email, Dating & Friendship
Food | Fishing | Games | Historical | Multi-cultural | Performing Arts
Pets & Animals | Public Speaking | Radio, TV, Film | Sport | Support
Volunteer | Women | Writing | Request a link to your site

Genealogy and Local History Groups

• ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland)
• Combined Tweed River Historical Societies
• Genealogical Society of Queensland
• Gold Coast City Council - See Local Studies Library
• Gold Coast Family History Society Inc
• Headstone Photo Collection includes photographs from cemeteries, lone graves, churches, and war memorials in the South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales regions. 
• History Queensland Inc formerly known as the Queensland Association of Local and Family History Societies Inc.
• Queensland Government Births, Deaths, and Marriages Records
• Queensland Family History Society Inc 
• Queensland Living History Federation is the representative body for QLD's living history and reenactment groups.
• Royal Historical Society of Queensland
• Rural, Historic, Abandoned and Desolate Places photograph collections of churches, pubs, abandoned and disused buildings, and other interesting places throughout Queensland.
  
• Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Research Centre located at Beenleigh, it has information on Yugambeh cultural heritage.

• See also BCL Gold Coast - Historical Attractions
• See also Brisbane City Life - Genealogy and Local History Groups

National Genealogy and Local History Groups

• Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations Inc
• Australian GenWeb Project
• Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies Inc
• Australian Jewish Genealogical Society Inc
• Australian Lebanese Historical Society Inc
• Australian National University Noel Bultin Archives Centre - See Family History for how to find information on the employment history of ancestors.
• Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
• Australian Society of American Immigrants and Descendants
• Australian Society of Archivists
• Australian War Memorial searchable databases, including names of individuals on the Roll of Honour, Commemorative Roll, and Nominal Rolls, information on those who received honours or awards while on active service, digitised case files of Australian personnel reported missing or wounded during World War One, and details of AMF prisoners of war and missing personnel from operations in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands.
• Collections Australia Network Australian cultural heritage collections online.
• Convictions Australian Shipping information on Australian shipping 1788-1968, including arrivals, departures, shipwrecks, passengers, and crew.
• Convicts Australia database of convict information, including convict names, Old Bailey Court records, ship names, pardons, and absconders, as well as links to other sites featuring convict records.
• Descendants of Convicts Group Inc
• Federation of Australian Historical Societies
• History Australia includes the Internet Family History Association of Australia (IFHAA).
• Military Historical Society of Australia
• National Archives of Australia - See Fact Sheets about immigration and citizenship.
• National Library of Australia - See Genealogy and Historical Resources Guides
• Office of Australian War Graves
• Oral History Association of Australia
• Picture Australia search for and purchase Australian archival and historical prints, pictures, photographs, and posters.
• Ready, 'Net, Go! Archival Internet Resources
• Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
• Society of Australian Genealogists
• World War Two Nominal Roll searchable database of information on the Australian men and women who served in World War Two.

FREE

• Advertise your event in the BCL Community Noticeboard
• Subscribe to the FREE BCL email newsletter
• Tell friends and colleagues about BCL
• Request a link to your web site