The Local History Library holds a range of material for family historians. The collection concentrates on the Toowoomba and the Darling Downs area with some Queensland and Australian resources available.The information is held in a variety of different formats such as CD-Rom, Microfiche and Microfilm.  

CD-Rom Holdings

• Births, Deaths, Marriages and Accidents from the Border Post and Stannum Miner 1873-Dec 1876
• Qld Electoral Rolls 1880-1884
• Garden of Remembrance Toowoomba: Burial & Cremation Index 20 May 1966 – 30 Jan 2004
• Dern Index QLD Monumental Inscriptions 250 Cemeteries
• Qld Telephone Directory 1936
• Qld Public Service Index 1864-1948
• Qld Electoral Roll 1913
• Qld Intestacies, Insolvencies & Wills 1859-1900
• Aldine History of Queensland (1888)

Genealogy CD-ROMs

QLD
Pioneers index 1829-1889
Federation index 1890-1914

N.S.W.
Pioneers series 1788-1888
Federation series 1889-1918
Between the wars 1919-1945

VIC
Pioneers Index 1837-1888
Federation index 1889-1901
Edwardian index 1902-1913
Great War index 1914-1920
Death index 1921-1985
Inquest Index 1840-1985
Marriage Index 1921-1942

W.A.
Pioneers index 1841-1905

 TAS
Pioneers Index 1803-1899

 S.A.
Birth registrations 1842-1906
Marriage registrations 1842-1937
Death registrations 1842-1906

GREAT BRITAIN
Soldiers died in the Great War1914-19

Microfilm

• Toowoomba Chronicle from 4 July, 1861 -May 2010
• Darling Downs Gazette 2 August, 1860-30 June, 1922
• Register of Migrants arriving on immigrant ships entering Queensland (+card index on microfiche)
• The Citizen 1 June, 1907 – 14 August, 1909
• The Bulletin Jan.6 1987-29 June 1999
• Allora Guardian & Clifton Advocate Oct 1888-1934
• Moreton Bay/Brisbane Courier Jan 3 1852- July 27 1901
• Clifton Courier 1907-1980
• Dalby Herald 1866-1879 (Incomplete)

 Microfiche

• Qld Births 1860-1919
• Qld Marriages 1856-1939
• Qld Deaths 1850-1964
• Qld Baptisms: Prior to 1856
• Qld Burials: Prior to 1856
• Qld Marriages: Prior to 1856 Qld Marriage Index
• Country Death Index 1885-1889. (Incomplete)
• Qld and Brisbane Death Index 1856-1899
• Country Deaths
• Brisbane Marriage index
• Brisbane Death Index 1885-1889
• Queensland Obituaries Index
• Pre-separation Population Index

Queensland - South
• Coleyville, Engelsburg(Kalbar), Boonah and Highfields Baptist Cemeteries (Qld.)
• Wide Bay and Burnett Directory 1887
• A Guide to the Pre-Separation Population Index of the Moreton Bay Region 1824-1859
• Croydon, Queensland. Index to Hospital Admissions 1888-1919
• Index to Laidley R.C. Marriages 1892-1994
• Index to Laidley R.C. Baptisms 1891-1993
• Index to St. Mary’s Gatton Marriages 1897-1963
• Index R.C. Baptisms St. Mary’s, Gatton 1886-1986

Queensland - General
• Qld Electoral Rolls 1860-1900
• Qld Post Office Directories 1868-1949
• M.J. Fox History of QLD (1919-1923)
• Qld School Pupils Index
• Qld Public Service Index 1900

• Qld Wills Index 1859-1900
• Qld Passports Index 1915-1921
• Qld Hotels and Publicans Index 1843-1900
• Index to Mining Leases 1871- 1940

Parish and Vital Records List (1994)

• Persons employed in Railway Service in Qld: 1889,1892,1901,1910,1919
• Baillieres Qld Gazetteer and Road Guide 1876
• Card Index to immigrants (QLD)
• War and other Memorials
• Slaters Qld Almanac 1868-1918
• Consolidated Index to the Qld Government Gazettes 1859-1869
• Qld State Archives – Index to Record Holdings – accessioned prior to Oct 1996
• An Index to Early Office Keepers of Qld Post Offices and Receiving Offices

Queensland – Central and North
• Index to records of Inspectors of Pacific Islanders and related records 1865-1938
• Bourke District Directory 1893
• Hopkins Rockhampton Almanac 1878
• Inghams Almanac 1887
• Eadies Illustrated Bundaberg Almanac 1911
• Foreman’s Rockhampton Almanac 1906
• Blake’s Central Qld Almanac 1891
• Cowrie and Cowland’s Central Qld Almanac 1900
• Port Denison Times Almanac 1868
• Maryborough Almanac 1874-1875
• Verney’s Almanac 1899
• Port Curtis Almanac 1866,1880,1894-1896,1899
• Willmett’s North Qld Almanac 1876-1879,1883,1885,1888,1891-1892,1898
• Western Champion Almanac 1891

Toowoomba
• Groom’s Darling Downs Book Almanac 1885-1887,1892-1893,1898,1900-1903,1905,1909-1910

Darling Downs
• Index to Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries Darling Downs Gazette 1860-1922
• Darling Downs Cemeteries
• Ipswich, Toowoomba and Drayton Directory and Gazetteer 1885-86
• St. George Cemetery

Other States
• Vic Deserters from Ships Index 1853-1880
• Immigration to Victoria: Index to Inward Passenger Lists Foreign Ports 1860-1869 VPRS8669/P2
• Biographical Index of South Australians 1836-1885

Australian
• Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia: 1873
• Who’s Who in Australia 1906,1908,1912-1914,1922,1927-28,1933-34,1935,1938,1941,1944
• Australian Historic Records Register – 1989 National Library of Australia