Record type

Institutional records — where to find them free

Hospitals, asylums, gaols, schools and poorhouses: admissions and discharges that place a person on a date.

Public archives Provara searches for institutional records

live Queensland State Archives indexes (Australia)

Queensland State Archives via data.qld.gov.au · AU

Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · terms read 2026-09-06

How to ask

In Provara, ask Provara whether an ancestor appears in institutional registers. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.

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Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.