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EARLY PIONEERS INDEXES 1824-1859 with QFHSdatasearch Version 1.5

.An index of approximately 150,000 entries covering 75 primary sources to people in Queensland prior to separation from New South Wales at the end of 1859. The CD includes a scanned image of an accompanying guide and three smaller indexes to other court, land and miscellaneous records. Searching the main index by name, title, year and source is made easy using the popular searching and sorting capabilities of our very own developed QFHSdatasearch interface. Features include 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.

This index was initially published on microfiche (print guide included) as the Queensland Pre-separation Index in 1990. It has proved an invaluable and extremely popular resource for family researchers and general historians researching the pre-separation period.

Highlights of this new version: Wide ranging sources, including convict, administration, immigration, law, land, newspaper, hospital and personal records. Also includes: a person's nationality, convict status and gender, type of record, source and reference within the source. View the guide in Acrobat Reader (free and downloadable). Regional history a bonus.