Judy Webster is a professional genealogist, author, and speaker, and hosts her own family history website with genealogy advice and indexes and more. She’s a must-follow on social media. She specializes in Queensland, Australia research. Her site has many helpful genealogy resources including:
- Publications and genealogy guides
- Indexes, including more than 53,000 names from indexes to local, interstate, and overseas folk mentioned in records, as well as names from certificates, cemeteries, etc., with the following from original records at Queensland State Archives:
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- Missing Friends records
- Photos and sketches of people
- Mental asylum records
- Hospital admission registers
- Old age pension records
- Illegitimate children
- Police Gazettes
- Police station watchhouse records
- Prison records
- Maintenance payments
- Undertakings re fares
- Women granted protection orders, 1888-1904
- Dentists and dental apprentices
- Nurses and masseurs
- Cooktown residents who signed a petition in 1874
- Cooktown Boys’ School admission register
- Indexes from other sources, including:
- Links to other sites, including her blog, Updates Genie
- Her family tree with surname information as well
- Tips for genealogy in Queensland and elsewhere, especially research techniques for people (anywhere) who ‘vanished’
- Consultation requests for Copying, Research, and Other Genealogical Services
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