Published 2005 ISBN 1 876613 98 X

QSPI Part 3 indexes approximately 340,000 names drawn from over 200 Queensland schools and can be directly searched on name, school and year with QFHSdatasearch. Dates for this CD range from 1870 to circa 2004 with a 30 year closure, as recommended by Education Queensland, when names were extracted directly from Admission Registers.

Schools range in size from large city ones with admissions in the thousands to small country one-teacher schools with a total enrolment of hundreds. Some schools have long ceased to exist; others are still functioning.

Sources from which the names are drawn are diverse - actual school admission registers, school histories covering a significant anniversary (Jubilee, Golden, Centenary) in the life of a school, and local histories which don't focus on the school but include a pupil list as part of their story. Many sources provide additional information on the family including age at admission, birth date, parents' names and occupation, religion, address - all very useful to the genealogist and family historian. School records are a source that we cannot afford to overlook!

QFHSdatasearch, developed by the Queensland Family History Society, is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases. This version features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting and wildcard searches.

System Requirements: PC with Windows operating system (Win95 or later), CD drive and 20 Mb of free disk space to install QFHSdatasearch.