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Title:
Index to Tasmanian government records and colonial newspapers
Publication Information:
Hobart : Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office, 2011.
Physical description:
electronic images : digital, PDF files.
Notes:
Also available in original card format.

Original: Card index held in State Library and Tasmanian Archives History Room, 91 Murray St, Hobart, Tasmania.

Mode of access: Internet.
Summary:
Digitised version of a handwritten card index to colonial Tasmanian Government records and colonial newspapers compiled by Amelia Lucy Wayn during the period from the 1920s to 1940s. They were then added to by staff employed in the Archives Office in the 1950s. The records indexed include Governor's Office Despatches and Correspondence of the Colonial Secretary's Office prior to 1856. Miss Wayn was employed to arrange and index Tasmanian archival records as part of the Historical Record of Australia project and joint Commonwealth and State funding was obtained for the work. At that time the records were held by the Chief Secretary's Department, which employed her.

The cards contain certain abbreviations for series of records indexed and for newspapers - ID is a reference to a series of inward despatches to the Governor (GO1 and sometimes related despatch series GO2 or 3); OD is a reference to the series of outward despatches to the Governor (GO33); E, Panel E or C/Arthur is a reference to the correspondence of the Colonial Secretary (CSO1). Newspaper references are generally self explanatory with the exception of H.T.G. (Hobart Town Gazette).
Alternate Title:
Wayn index (Online)
Record ID:
SD_ILS:1029309
Electronic resources:
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