Media: DATA CD - 1 CD (4556 pages)
Author: Queensland Family History Society
Year: (1979-2010) 2010
ISBN: 9781742229454
Publisher: Archive Digital Books Australasia

This CD contains a complete run of the Queensland Family Historian from 1979 to 2010 – the journal of the Queensland Family History Society. First published in 1979, the journals have articles on a wide range of topics relating to Queensland and the research interests of the society’s members – stories of convicts, pioneer families, articles on researching interstate and overseas, on reading old handwriting, school histories and much more.

SAMPLE ENTRY:

So Harry set off in September 1852 from Plymouth at age 2½, with his parents and older sister Catherine, brother George and baby Tom, on the Parsee for Moreton Bay. They arrived on 10 January 1853 after what must have seemed to Harry a surreal experience over those 102 days. Although the passengers were apparently of exemplary behaviour, the crew had behaved badly throughout the voyage. The second officer threatened the captain's life and was placed in irons and eight seamen absconded near the mouth of the Brisbane River. Moreover, tragedy had struck the family during the voyage with the loss of little Tom, who had been baptized only weeks before they had left Plymouth ...

For the first time the journals are fully searchable as a PDF document on CD ROM – published by Archive Digital Books Australasia.

This CD contains high quality scanned images of the original journals, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
Any computer using Adobe (Acrobat) Reader 4 or later
Adobe Reader 6 or later is recommended for CDs with searchable text

RELATED PRODUCTS:
Queensland Family Historian 1979-1990
Queensland Family Historian 1991-2000
Queensland Family Historian 2001-2010
Queensland Family Historian 1979-2010 Set