Welcome to the Gympie Family History Society
We are here to provide support, help and advice to those wishing to discover more about their family history. Over the last 45 years, the Gympie Family History Society has accumulated a comprehensive collection of resources in print and digital formats. We offer a library full of rare books and thousands of curated Gympie Family histories. We also have information on all the local cemeteries, military history, gold mining history, and house history.
The Gympie Family History Society has many volunteers who staff the resource centre located at 1 Chapple Street, Gympie. The rooms are staffed Wednesday (9.30am – 2pm), Friday (9.30 – 12pm) and Saturday (1pm – 4pm).
If you don’t live locally – no worries! We offer research packages to suit everyone!
What Can You Do For Me?
Our research department combines experienced volunteers, extensive local resources and online tools to help you uncover your family story in Gympie and surrounding districts. Whether you are just starting out or working on a detailed family tree, we can guide you to the right records and help you make sense of what you find.
Much of the information stored digitally in the rooms and in our archives is not available online. You would be surprised what we have at the Gympie Family History Society.
While we’re all volunteers, donations and research fees help keep our services running. These funds support the digitisation, preservation, and expansion of our collections—so we can continue to make them available now and for future generations.
We have volunteers who are ready to tackle our collections to research and find the answers you want…and maybe something unexpected!
Phone us on (07) 5482 8211 for more information or contact us via our contact form.
More Reading: Getting Started with Your Family History in Gympie
Do Your Own Research at our rooms
You are welcome to visit our rooms at 1 Chapple Street, Gympie (opposite Soma Soma) during opening hours to explore our collections at your leisure. We hold a growing range of family history resources including:
- Local cemetery, undertaker and burial records for Gympie and Surrounding Areas
- Indexes to births, deaths and marriages
- Electoral rolls and postal directories
- School, church and community records
- Local History books, newspapers, magazines and photographs
- Access to selected online family history and DNA resources.
There is always a volunteer researcher nearby if you need help to get started, interpret a record or overcome a brick wall.
Visit us during our opening hours and explore our collections at your leisure. There is always a researcher nearby if you need a hand.
Visiting fees for non-members are
- $5.00 per name enquiry or look up
- $10.00 per hour for use of computers research help etc
- $20.00 per hour with a research officer or DNA consultant
- All printing/copying is charged at 50c per page
Engage Us to do the Research For You
If you cannot visit us in person, or you prefer an experienced researcher to work on your query, you can engage our Research Officer to investigate on your behalf. This service is ideal for interstate and overseas family historians or anyone short on time.
You can ask us to:
- Trace a particular ancestor or family line anywhere in the world
- Check local indexes, newspapers and cemetery records
- Confirm or correct information in your existing tree
- Look for land, mining or school records
- Help interpret DNA results in the context of local families
Our minimum fee is $40 and covers up to 2 hours of research.
After that, research is charged at $20 per hour. Simply let us know what you’d like us to find and your time or budget limits.
We will send our research to you by email unless your prefer paper copies. Any printing or photocopying is charged at 50c per page.
Payment is required before we begin, and all payment details are included on the form.
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.