Where do you come from?

Cairns Family History can help you find out!

Cairns Family History Centre  is open for your family history research needs.  We are trialling opening on Saturdays – why not pop in and say hello?  Check our Opening Hours page for details.

Initially launched in 2017, additional soldiers have been added to the Cairns Cenotaph WWI Soldiers Index

Have you checked our index for your soldier?

We hold burial records for McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery.  We have undertaken extensive research on both the marked and unmarked graves, and produced detailed stories of those buried there.  Have you checked our index for your ancestor?

McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery Records

Our Family History for Beginners workshops are the ideal way to learn how to start exploring your ancestry.  Or visit us during opening hours for assistance.

Use your saliva to reveal your ethnicity, solve the toughest family mysteries, connect with biological relatives, and add new branches to your family tree.

Dramatised evening walks though McLeod Street Pioneer Cemetery, with fragments of the past retold through voices of the living.

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Check our calendar of events regularly so you don’t miss any of our exciting presentations, workshops, webinars, drop-in clinics, or guest speakers.

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