Bundaberg Regional Council

Local History / Genealogy

Dewey Decimal Call Numbers:  Printable Version

Bundaberg
994.32   General History (see below for specific detail)
 
Other Queensland Regions
994.31   Brisbane
994.32   Kolan (Gin Gin), Isis (Childers), Mt Perry
994.32   Gympie, Gayndah, Maryborough, Ipswich
994.35   Rockhampton, Gladstone, Mt Morgan
994.36   Mackay, Townsville, Cairns
994.37   Mt Isa
 
Other Resources
929.1s   How to Research / Write Family History
929.6s   Heraldry

Book List:

General Bundaberg History
ANF 994.32 SUM   Summer Memories Through Winter Eyes
ANF 994.32 CUL   Bundaberg Institutions (Cullen, E.)
ANF 994.32 NOL   Bundaberg, History and People (Nolan, J.)
ANF 994.32 RAC   Bundaberg, From Pioneers to Prosperity (Rackemann, N.)
ANF 994.32 WAL   The History of Bundaberg... (Walker, J.)
 
Miscellaneous Bundaberg History
ANF 629.13099432 BUN   Bundaberg Aero Club: the first fifty years
ANF 797.14099432 BUN   Bundaberg Rowing Club: 100 years of rowing
F 797.32099432 BUL   A Surf Life Saving Saga: the Bundaberg Surf Life Saving Club Inc.
ANF 363.378099432 BUN   Bundaberg Fire Brigade Board and Bundaberg Fire Brigade...
ANF A823.3 SMI   Bundaberg in Verse: the years between the wars, 1919-1939
F 338.17361099432 KER   Southern Sugar Saga (Kerr, J.)
F 387.1099432 KER   Bundaberg, the Persistent Port (Kerr, J.)
F 330.99432 HAR   The Wide-Bay Burnett Region and the Bundaberg and Maryborough Districts
VCR 919.432 BUN   Bundaberg, Coral Isles and Country Promotional Video
VCR 994.32 EXT   Extracts from the Archives of Wide Bay's... (silent footage from Channel 7)
 
Other Genealogical Resources
How to...
F 929.1072094 REA   How to Trace your Family Tree (and not get stuck on a branch)
ANF 929.1 STE   The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Your Family History
ANF 929.1 EDW   Writing a non-boring Family History
   
Heraldry
ANF 929.609 SLA   The Complete Book of Heraldry
ANF 929.60941 BOU   Boutell's Heraldry
R 929.6 VOL   Heraldry of the World
   
Immigrants via Ship
R 929.3943 IND   An Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Queensland 1870-1879 and 1880-1899
 
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"Bundaberg Reference" Collection:
Historical and genealogical resources pertaining to Bundaberg and surrounding districts are located in the Bundaberg Reference Collection at the end of the Reference Section.
 
The Bundaberg Reference Collection contains resources including the following:

  • general histories

  • schools

  • arts

  • historic buildings

  • News-Mail notices

  • Rates indexes

  • births, deaths, marriages

  • cemetary indexes and monument inscriptions

  • lone graves and lost burials

  • obituaries

  • An Index to Assisted Immigrants Arriving Queensland 1870-1879 and 1880-1899 (kept separately under the call number R929.3943 IND)

Some of these resources cover specific years, or a specific range of years.

Also in "Bundaberg Reference", information on:

  • Burnett River

  • Walla Weir

  • Baldwin Swamp

  • Port Bundaberg

  • ...and more
 
Other Resources:
The Library's Genealogy and Local History Resources pamphlet. This pamphlet lists contact details for places in Bundaberg and Brisbane that you can visit or contact for more information. Click on the link above.
 
Bundaberg News-Mail archive on microfilm. Book at the desk or by phone. Children must be accompanied by an adult. We hold approximately from December 1892 onwards, as well as some other local papers. Click here for more detail about the collection.
 
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Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
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