Archive guide · AU
Queensland State Archives indexes (Australia)
searched live by Provara
What it holds
Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Queensland State Archives via data.qld.gov.au
- Licence for use here
- CC BY 4.0
- Attribution
- Credit 'Queensland State Archives' and link the item
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://www.data.qld.gov.au/organization/queensland-state-archives
How to search it in Provara
- Immigration and passenger lists: ask Provara when and where an ancestor arrived.
- Wills and probate: ask Provara whether an ancestor left a will.
- Inquests: ask Provara whether an unexplained death left an inquest.
- Military service and pension files: ask Provara whether an ancestor served and what the file holds.
- Institutional records: ask Provara whether an ancestor appears in institutional registers.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Immigration and passenger lists — Arrivals by ship or border: name, age, origin, destination, sometimes the relative they were joining. The bridge between the old country and the new.
- Wills and probate — A will or an estate file names heirs, spouses and property, and fixes a death to a court date.
- Inquests — Coroners' inquiries into sudden deaths: cause, witnesses, circumstances.
- Military service and pension files — Enlistment, service, discharge and pension papers. Pension files in particular name spouses, children and witnesses.
- Institutional records — Hospitals, asylums, gaols, schools and poorhouses: admissions and discharges that place a person on a date.
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