Indexes to Tasmanian records
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
What else is there?
- Indexes on CD-ROMs
- Pioneers index (1803-1899)
- Tasmanian Federation index (births 1900-1919 and deaths/marriages 1900-1919)
- Other indexes in the library
- General correspondence and other card indexes held in the Reading Room, Hobart
- Many archives records series have indexes to help you use those records. Keep an eye out for them as you search.
Notes
Published indexes are gradually being digitised where we hold the copyright. However, some indexes cannot be digitised by us as we do not hold the copyright. For example, we hold copies of indexes created by the Tasmanian Genealogical Society and others that refer to our records. You are welcome to view these indexes when you visit, but we cannot make them available online.
Related
- Guides to records on specific topics include indexes relevant to that topic
What can I find from other organisations?
The following are available freely online in our libraries:
- Ancestry Library Edition – available onsite in our libraries only.
- FindMyPast – available onsite in our libraries only.