Brief Guides

These brief guides contain listings of some of the major and most useful series of records relevant to a particular topic, as well as information about using the services of the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.

Aboriginal people of Tasmania

• Documenting Tasmanian Aboriginal descent 
• Issues in documenting Tasmanian Aboriginal genealogies 
• Records relating to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 
  

About the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office

• Records arrangement a brief summary of the general principles followed in archives
• Citation of references instructions on how to cite material found in our archives 
• Search room services
  

Business records 

• Records relating to the registration of companies, firms, and business names 
• Records relating to the issue of publican's licences  
  

Convicts - records of convicts and prisoners

• Records most frequently used for personal information about convicts 
• Records relating to the movement of convict ticket of leave holders 
• Records relating to prisoners in gaol
• Convict records - explanation of format and frequently used abbreviations  (for a complete list of the records see our Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania: Convict Department)
  

Court records

• Records relating to criminal cases 
• Records relating to coronial inquests  

Defence

• Records relating to defence personnel
• Regiments of the British army serving in Tasmania, 1803 - 1870  

Education records 

• Education Department - indexes, registers and correspondence
• Records relating to teachers and other Education staff

Family history

• Records useful for genealogical research
• District registers of births and deaths available on microfilm
• Locations of copies of Tasmanian birth, death, and marriage records
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• Information recorded in Tasmanian birth, death, and marriage records  

Health - Patient records

• Patient records, Royal Derwent Hospital  

Immigration records

• Records relating to immigration (for a complete list of the records and a history of free immigration to 1946 see our Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania: Records Relating to Free immigration)

• Records relating to child migrants
• Records relating to naturalisations

Lighthouses

• Records relating to lighthouses

Local history records

• Records for local history

Professions and occupations

• Records relating to lighthouse staff
• Records relating to teachers and other Education staff
• Records relating to railway employees
• Records relating to the issue of publican's licences
  

Railway records

• Records relating to railways
• Records relating to railway employees

Wills and probate

•  Records relating to the administration of wills and probate