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Original records held by the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office (TAHO) that are frequently used by clients include those relating to education, convicts, immigration, customs, health and welfare, employment and births, deaths and marriages.

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Royal Commission into the North Lyell Mine disaster

In October 1912 a fire broke out at the Mt Lyell Mine in Gormanston, Tasmania and 43 lives were lost. This Royal Commission reported on the cause or causes of the accident.

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Employment Records

Copies of certificates of competency, first class, to operate land engines. 1890 - 1902

Copies of certificates of competency, first class, to operate land engines. 1903 - 1939

Copies of certificates of service as a mine winding engine driver 1890 - 1893

Forms recording details of service and other information on permanent officers of the public service 1907 - 1945

Nurses register of Training and Employment, Launceston General Hospital 1891 - 1912

Census records

Censuses were undertaken in Tasmania in 1837, 1838, 1842, 1843, 1848, 1851 and 1857. Most of the individual returns (the forms recording details of each household) have not survived, but those which have are very useful to historians.