Genealogy Sunshine Coast

A great resource for locating information on places and people, to share information on useful resources and of course, a great tool for locating a copy of a book anywhere in the world.  http://www.worldcat.org/ You can find the holdings of our local Sunshine Coast Regional Libraries, as well as the State Library of Queensland and the John Oxley Library.  By typing in your postcode, you can find the nearest library which might hold a copy of a title of interest to you.  You can also create a log in for yourself, and create Lists of useful resources.  We have created a basic list of local Sunshine Coast local history titles which we have created detailed indexes for. The list currently appearing is not complete ( only half of the titles are appearing currently) but keep an eye on the Worldcat site and also on our Genealogy Sunshine Coast website under GSC Indexes for the latest information that we have added. 

Make sure you keep a regular check on our Genealogy Sunshine Coast website for all the updated information about what is happening at our Resource Centre in Petrie Park, Nambour, located just opposite the swimming pool in Petrie Park Road. You can find our website at  http://sites.google.com/site/genealogysunshinecoastinc/ There is information on our monthly hands on workshops on all aspects of genealogy, especially using computers and scanners, digital cameras and genealogy software such as Rootsmagic 4 and Legacy 7.5. You are very welcome to attend our monthly meetings, held on the second Saturday of each month, commencing at 9.30am. It's a great chance to hear a guest speaker and meet many of our members, ranging from beginners to very experienced researchers. 

2011 will be an interesting year for our dedicated band of family historians, genealogists and local historians on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. For the last three years, our volunteer indexers and scanners have been busy creating digital records from our paper files of local and family history of the Sunshine Coast area, and assorted records from throughout Australia and beyond. In 2011, we hope to share much of this information via our website and through online websites such as Worldcat and Google Maps to create a detailed historical  record of the Sunshine Coast region, and particularly those areas which were encompassed by the old Maroochy Shire boundaries.