Useful resources

Extra resources for researching your family's history

• General library resources on researching your family history
• Published histories ​of some Tasmanian families
  
• See more resources on ancestors outside Tasmania​
• Private family history researchers​
  
• Colonial Tasmanian Links database
  

Other Tasmanian organisations

• Tasmanian Family History Society
• Female Convicts Research Centre

Other online resources

• Ancestry Library Edition (view tutorial) - a comprehensive source for genealogical and local history research. Due to the library closure, this can be accessed from home: Log in with your library membership.
  
• FindMyP​ast (view tutorial) - a family history and genealogy website containing over 50 million family history records. Due to the library closure this can be accessed from home by contacting us through our chat service to get the login details.
  
• FamilySearch - free family trees, genealogy records and resources.
• Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland - access within our libraries or login with your library membership from home (note: access is not available through Internet Explorer or Edge browsers).
  

Useful websites

• State Library of Queensland’s useful websites for family historians
• National Library’s Australian Family History and genealogy selected websites
• Cyndi’s list
• Coraweb
• Society of Australian Genealogists
• GenealogyInTime Magazine ​​