IXL Family History

28/04/2025

Hi everyone Jacqui Brock, owner of IXL Family History here. I haven't kept it a secret that I was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. I'm fundraising for the National Breast Cancer Foundation whose goal is 'zero deaths from breast cancer'. Anyone who donates to this cause (even if its just $5) will go into the draw to win a beautiful hat designed and gifted by Cassie Aussie Hats. If you click on the link below you can donate and/or scan through the posts to see the lovely hat worth $90, and if you're not local - I'll cover the postage costs.

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23/03/2025

Hello. IXL Family History is taking a break for a little while. Thank you for your support and understanding.

27/08/2024

DO YOU HAVE ANCESTORS, FRIENDS OR FAMILY buried in the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery?

Toowoomba Regional Council have now posted a list of all damaged headstones/monuments that were vandalised at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery earlier this month (August 2024).
Please see the list and further information by clicking on the link below. Please feel free to share: https://www.tr.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/cemeteries/cemetery-locations/16282-dtc-vandalism-list-from-9-august-2024?fbclid=IwY2xjawE6Em5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHV9THe-agJ44LbvTKKradZcHXovVf_u2T8kJ7tM-mMOKlqj5Oie1SbRncg_aem_JRmVFN1LQ12y14nk9cjx2w

The senseless and disgraceful act of vandalism that occurred at the on 9 August, damaging 143 memorials and monuments at our Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery. We have completed an evaluation of the cemetery and have compiled a list of the damaged sites which can be found below. If you are a family membe...

22/04/2024

Anzac Day offers a great opportunity to honor the legacies of Australian and New Zealander family members who fought for freedom. To make this Anzac Day even more meaningful, MyHeritage is providing free access to all 130 million records from Australia and New Zealand on MyHeritage from April 23–28, 2024.

Anzac Day offers a great opportunity to honor the legacies of Australian and New Zealander family members who fought for freedom. To make this Anzac Day

22/04/2024

With the lead up to Anzac Day many of the libraries and websites are making their military records readily available. See link below.

State Library of Queensland houses many collections relating to the experience of Queenslanders during the Great War, 1914-1918

05/02/2024

Did you know that the Queensland Tenure Maps series were published at a scale of 12 miles to an inch and used 7 sheets to cover all of Queensland?

Scans of this map series dated from 1920 to 1922 have been released via the Historical maps topic available from the Queensland Globe. They can be accessed via the Cadastral 12 mile series layer (along with additional maps scans at this scale). They are a valuable historical land research resource as they provide a snapshot of land tenure at the time showing land held as pastoral holdings, freehold, grazing selections, agricultural selections and prickly pear selections.

This is a cropped part of Queensland Tenure Map sheet 5 dated 1920.

05/02/2024

New records on familysearch https://www.facebook.com/share/p/GtFyNBPBwwjfhbas/?mibextid=xfxF2i

Become a part of the best ancestry website community through FamilySearch, and discover how our free Family Trees and records can help you uncover your past.

04/02/2024

Have you registered for RootsTech 2024 yet? Online attendance is FREE. https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/?fbclid=IwAR3pDP1uklO7pVuiWyYS-cWk0sWgW9cAY-q1Wq6nFeFNkD3Y_3xkpeeK9f4_aem_AaFvjIBHRj5GnW6E6oDV86ikZaNYG2rsmFyCmz7P4ZlXoYNPXL1OiAvAopQsJMVNd6r4Q5Ie0TMHBNPaA40AP5_T

A family history conference. An on-demand learning library. A way to grow closer to the people, places, and stories that matter most. RootsTech is all that and so much more. Join us as we celebrate the joy of connection together.

02/02/2024

02/02/2024

Save the date 21-24 March 2025 (next year). This conference always has something for the beginners right through to the most experienced family historian. Its held in a different place every 2-3 years, but 2025 is Brisbane. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/NLGKukgJqHBWwqRM/?mibextid=qi2Omg

GSQ is thrilled to announce their involvement with Connections 2025, the 17th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry & 5th Queensland History State Conference.
The website is now open for bookings with the first four of their featured speakers announced. The venue is at The Brisbane Technology Park, 1 Clunies Ross Court, Eight Mile Plains with Quest Hotel Apartments situated adjacent to the conference site.
Full details are on the conference website:
https://www.connections2025.org.au/

20/01/2024

Friends - please share...
The Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society’s are looking for stories for the next volume of "Our Backyard and Beyond". If you know of someone who is buried anywhere in the Toowoomba Regional Council area, whether it be in a cemetery, on private land, or perhaps their ashes have been interred or scattered somewhere - and you'd like to write their story - now is the time. The story can be about their family tree, a short biography of that person, or a particular event or achievement in their lives. It can be anything from a couple of paragraphs to around 1500 words (or more).

Your story doesn't have to be about a family member or someone you are connected to - it could be a schoolteacher, minister, scout cub leader, dancing teacher, nun, charity worker, or someone who has a similar name to you/your family.

Our editor has advised that after 10 long years of doing this, this could be the last book unless she finds someone to take over the reins. So don't put it off thinking that you can write it/them next year.

So, get your stories in by 31 March 2024. Any queries (including checking if someone else has already written their story) can be emailed to tddfhs452@gmail.com or ring the Secretary/Editor Marionne on (07) 4634 7377 on Tuesday or Friday when she's at our Research Library.