This CD provides an index to all the notices in the Queensland Government Gazette relating to intestacies, insolvencies and wills 1859-1900 and, where found, other associated notices, an index to intestacy returns 1896-1910 (plus scanned images of the source pages in the Gazette) and an index to Supreme Court Brisbane Originating Summonses 1901-1906. The indexes can be directly searched on name, year and other details with QFHSdatasearch, which also provides direct links to the source images for the intestacy returns, viewable with Adobe (Acrobat) Reader.
These three indexes provide a valuable guide to death related and other legal information for the period. The main index (approx. 87,000 entries) lists name, residence, occupation, type of notice, court, date and Gazette reference. All persons in each notice have been indexed - including executors, administrators and trustees – to provide as complete a coverage as possible of those involved. The Gazette notices may contain further information, for example relationships to others mentioned in the notice and, for insolvencies, the dividends declared. The intestacy index (approx. 31,000 entries) lists name, where died, where born, court, and Gazette reference. The notices also indicate the total amount received, paid and invested for the estates of the listed persons. The Supreme Court index (approx. 4,000 entries) includes residence, occupation and notes on the nature of the summons.
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 links between search results and images in pdf files.
