Introduction
We hold massive amounts of records. In order to help locate information about a topic or person, staff, volunteers and others have produced indexes.
Our other guides to records link to relevant indexes, and also suggest other information that might be useful. We suggest you start your research with those guides. For example, the Guide to Military and Defence includes a range of indexes relevant to that topic.
What is online?
Search and view many records including Tasmanian birth, death and marriage records including convicts, inquests, birth, death and marriage records and more.
Digitised indexes to browse
- Pretyman index – for information about Tasmanian placename origins
- Wayn Index – for Tasmanian colonial government records and newspapers
- Tasmanian index to newspapers 1966-1994 and 1994-2010
- Whitfeld Index – a selective list of people’s names in Tasmanian newspapers 1816-1900. It focuses on early settlers and eminent families
- Artist’s index of Tasmanian visual artists (1845-1992) – Artists’ names taken from exhibition catalogues held
- Tasmanian public works finding guide