Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society

19/03/2026

07/03/2026

Hello everyone.
Additional hours/
In addition to our regular opening hours of 10am-3pm Mon-Friday, we will also be open on the 4th Thursday evening of every month from 5.30pm to 8.00pm and the 3rd Saturday of every month 10am-2pm.
To keep up to date with all of our latest information and news - join our facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/931081543925709
PS Don't forget to answer the security question or facebook will automatically decline your request to join the group.

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12/01/2026

Hello everyone. Just a reminder that we have re-opened after our 2025/2026 Christmas Break and are now open Mon-Fri 10am-3pm as of 12 January 2026.
We will also be open on the 4th Thursday evening of every month from 5.30pm to 8.00pm (22 January, 26 February, 26 March 2026 to gauge interest).
To keep up to date with all of our latest information and news - join our facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/931081543925709
PS Don't forget to answer the security question or facebook will automatically decline your request to join the group.

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11/09/2025

Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society also have a private page where we share stories, photos and information almost daily. We welcome your photos, stories, comments and queries too. We have over 2500 members there, so its a great place to share or source information. You can join by clicking on this link https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19nZ8EhWmy/
Please remember to answer the security question or your request will be declined.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...
Apart from our facebook group, you can also join our Society by paying a membership fee. Our financial members receive so many more benefits.
Benefits for financial members include:
1. Regular Society journal emailed or posted several times a year;
2. Links to journals from reciprocal Societies all over Australia;
3. Members only dIscussion groups meetings twice a month on a range of interesting topics (in person and via zoom);
4. Reduced research fees at our Research library $2.50 financial members and $10 non-financial.
5. Reduced research fees at (some) reciprocal societies,
6. Annual General Meeting with guest speakers;
7. Christmas lunch with secret santa;
AND
We'll even give you a job if you want one.

Paid memberships help us keep our doors open and allow us to pay subscriptions, keep the lights on, purchase resources, pay for computers, printers, scanners, and maintain the building which we are pleased to say we own outright. All of our committee and staff are volunteers and give freely of their time.
To become a financial member is worth every cent.. $10 joining fee and $36 single per year or $48 for two family members at same address.
OR you can pay just $15 a year to receive our journals without the other bells and whistles. For more information and membership form see

09/01/2022

Our Research Centre and Library at 452 South St, Toowoomba is open Mon-Fri 10am-3pm.

11/08/2019

At our Annual General Meeting in 2019, we were privileged to have two great speakers Geoff Doherty and Caylie Jeffrey. We also had the opportunity to honour one of our hard working members Gloria Glass with life membership.

25/06/2019

It's just unbelievable how busy we seem to be lately. Doesn't give me much time to post anything on facebook. However, we've now held our thank you to volunteers lunch and have honoured one of our hardest working volunteers with Life Membership. Here's Ken Stephen after receiving his award. Ken spends usually 3 days a week at the library indexing the Toowoomba Chronicle which is presently indexed to 1990. Well done Ken.

30/01/2019

This has to be the best museum around. Only 40 minutes of so from Toowoomba and of course less from Highfields. Well worth a visit. Take all the family for a great day out.

24/12/2018

Here's a scan of some ration tickets we have come across at the research centre.

02/12/2018

I'm sad to report that Toowoomba has lost one of its well known historians John Clements. For many years he conducted walks around the city and in the cemeteries. He produced a number of publications on local history including Toowoomba's Hotel History. As the Grand Hotel has been mentioned in one of our visitor posts I have included the information contained in John's publication in this post. This is a potted history of the hotel. John was a valued member of the Toowoomba & Darling Downs Family History Society and will be sadly missed.

28/11/2018

Did you do scholarship year at Toowoomba North State School in 1959. If so, please let us know. Some of the students have just begun to organise a reunion for next year which of course will be 60 years since some of you would have seen each other. You can email tddfhs452@yahoo.com.au if you are interested and we will pass on your information. The committee is also looking for photographs. This is one of the whole class.