This CD provides three indexes covering approximately 60,000 horse and cattle
brands and 17,000 sheep brands listed in the Queensland Government Gazette for
1872-1899 and 1877-1900 respectively, and approximately 79,000 entries for
horses and cattle in the Queensland Brands Directory 1949-1952.
The indexes can be directly searched on name, year and other details with
QFHSdatasearch, which also provides direct links to the images of the Queensland
Government Gazette lists for the horse, cattle and sheep brands, which is
viewable using Acrobat Reader.
The material on this CD is a valuable resource for researching Queensland
farming families. Where possible the two indexes to 1800s information cover not
only the owner, but also show and describe the brands in the search results,
which the linked images of the Gazette shows an image of the symbol used by each
for branding. For horses and cattle the index entries show whether a new
registration or transfer, while for sheep the indexed lists are of all current
registrations.
Brands were registered under the relevant acts, and images of these are also
included on the CD. The directory index includes name, address and page
reference to the main section of the Queensland Brands Directory 1949-1952, with
some additional owner information.
QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases
and developed by the Queensland Family History Society Inc. This version
features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting,
wildcard searches and, when applicable, links between search results and images
held in pdf files of the source records.
