Resources
Our resource centre holds a comprehensive every-growing collection of family history, newspaper articles, Gympie periodicals, rare local books, maps, and more that available to both members and visitors to our rooms at Chapple Street in Gympie.
We have spent many hours over the years indexing our library for make it faster and easier for you to locate names in books on the shelves. Or we can do it for you – look ups are $5 each and the details for payment are on the Research page.
What are you looking for?
- Births, Deaths and Marriages and Family Histories
- Pioneer Families and Biographies
- Schools
- Land records
- Businesses
- Cemeteries
- Gold Mining
- Historical Gympie
- Mayors, Members, Voting and Political Figures
- Military
- Gympie Houses
- Voting and Politics
- Immigration (UK, Irish, Scottish, German, Chinese) Coming Soon)
- Indigenous Australians in the Gympie area (Coming soon)
Surname Resources:
For an idea on what information we carry at the Gympie Family History Society Rooms, please look at our surname index below.
Other Online Resources and Useful Websites:
- Ancestry – a comprehensive source for genealogical and local history research. Available onsite in our libraries only.
- Findmypast – a family history and genealogy website containing over 50 million family history records. Available onsite in our libraries only.
- FamilySearch – free family trees, genealogy records and resources.
- Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- State Library of Queensland’s useful websites for family historians
- National Library’s Australian Family History and genealogy selected websites
- Society of Australian Genealogists
OPENING HOURS
Wednesday: 9:30am – 2:00pm
Friday: 9:30am – 12:00pm
Saturday: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
LOCATION
1 Chapple Street, Gympie Qld 4570
In the Old Ticket Office under the Rattler Railway Station. View map
Disclaimer: The information/text material found within is posted with good conscience and thought to be true and correct, but we do not guarantee the information/text material and must be viewed in a similar way as other information on the internet. Our Society website is maintained by our members who volunteer their time and skills.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land and pay our respects to the elders of the past, present and emerging.