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Cemeteries
Australian Cemeteries contains indexes of cemeteries from across Australia.
Births, deaths and marriages registers provides links to all BDM state and territory registers across Australia
Discover Everafter - Ipswich Access burial records for five Ipswich cemeteries: Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery, Tallegalla Cemetery, Haigslea Lawn Cemetery, Stone Quarry Cemetery, and Ipswich General Cemetery.
Find a Grave - search or browse cemeteries to find records of your ancestor
The Ryerson Index is a free index to funeral, death, and legal notices appearing in Australian newspapers
Convicts
Benedict Vengeur by Jan Richardson
British Convict Registers Convicts transported to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries
Chronological register of convicts at Moreton Bay - Queensland State Archives
Collective Memory and Memorial in an Urban Public Space: Queens Park and Cunningham's Knoll, Ipswich, A field Report by Roger Ford, 2021
Connected Histories: Convict Transportation Registers Database
Connected Histories - Crime and justice: a research guide
Convict Brisbane Queensland Historical Atlas: histories, cultures, landscapes
Convicts National Library of Australia guide
Invisible Stories: The Presence of Female Convicts in Queensland Following the Closure of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement in 1842, by Jan Richardson
James Josey, convict Queenslander - State Library of Queensland
Life in Irons: Stories of Brisbane's Aboriginal People and Convicts by Shannon Ruskin and Ray Kerkhove
Convict Records of Australia search British Convict Transportation register for convicts transported to Australia between 1787 and 1867
Convicts and Early Settlers - Queensland State Archives
Moreton Bay Penal Settlement Maps and Architectural Drawings - Queensland State Archives
Offenders, Paupers and Pioneers: Convict women and their families in pre-separation Queensland by Jan Richardson
Settlement 1824 to 1842 - Queensland State Archives Blog
The Convict Records of Queensland 1825-1842 The Australian Register UNESCO Memory of the World Program
The early roads from Brisbane by Paul Budde - Roads during the convict period
The Moreton Bay convict settlement: origins of Queensland - State Library of Queensland Blog
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Databases available at Ipswich Libraries
Ancestry.com library edition is free to access with your Ipswich Libraries membership
Find My Past is free to access at Ipswich Libraries, with your membership
My Heritage is free to access from home with your Ipswich Libraries membership
Family History
AIATSIS - Family History Kit contains fact sheets providing assistance with tracing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Births, deaths and marriages registers provides links to all BDM state and territory registers across Australia
Connected Histories: British History Sources, 1500-1900
Family History is the State Library of Queensland's collection of resources for family historians
Family History Research Guides - The State Library of Queensland provides helpful research guides covering various family history topics. These guides include useful resources and websites as well as research hints
Family History Research Services for Queensland, births between 1829-1921, deaths between 1829-1946, & marriages between 1829-1946
Family History Search for New South Wales
Family Search enables you to search for billions of names across hundreds of records in a bid to discover your family history. Records span from countries around the world and include births, deaths, marriages, probates, land and military
Researching your family is a National Archives of Australia guide to finding your family in their collection
Find and Connect brings together historical resources relating to institutional care in Australia, including information on children's homes.
Queensland Family History Society
The National Archives, United Kingdom