Tasmania Church Records

Online Resources and Websites

 * Tasmania Names Index, Libraries Tasmania Index and images
 * 1803-1933 - Tasmania Birth, Death & Marriage Records 1803-1933 Now Online Index
 * 1803-1933 -  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1803-1933 - Tasmania Births 1803-1933 - at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * 1803-1899 - Tasmania Marriages 1803-1899 - at FindMyPast, Index ($)
 * 1803-1933 - Tasmania Deaths 1803-1933 - at FindMyPast Index ($)

'''Church records predate civil registration, and as registrar's offices assumed responsibility for registration, they requested copies of earlier church records to incorporate into their collections. Civil registration indexes may include church records going back to 1803.'''

Libraries
National Library of Australia Parkes Place Canberra ACT 2600 Australia Telephone: +61 (0)2 6262 1111 Address postal enquiries to: Reader Services National Library of Australia Canberra ACT 2600 Australia
 * How do I research my family history?
 * Catalogue Advances Search
 * Ask a Librarian

Societies

 * The Society of Australian Genealogists, based in Sydney, provides an expert and specialist family history service, and holds microfilms of records of churches of all denominations throughout Australia and overseas. The SAG sells copies of their microfilms to family history societies, historical societies, and libraries.

Writing for Records
Originals of parish records may still be held at the local church. See the Letter Writing Guide for Genealogy for help in composing a letter requesting information from a local church. Address directories for major religious groups are listed here. Baptist, Pentecostal, and Reformed churches have multiple umbrella organizations. For those, use Google.
 * Anglican Directory Australia Parishes
 * Catholic Find A Church, Australia
 * Churches of Christ in Australia
 * Greek Orthodox Churches in Australia
 * Jehovah's Witnesses Find a Meeting in Australia
 * Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Find a Ward
 * Find a Lutheran Church Australia
 * OCA Orthodox Church Parishes in Australia
 * Russian Orthodox Church Directory of Parishes and Monasteries in Australia
 * PresKey OnLine Directory, Find a Presbyterian Church in Australia
 * Salvation Army Churches in Australia
 * Seventh-day Adventist Congregations in Australia
 * Uniting Church Congregations of Australia (Congregational)

Historical Background

 * The island was initially part of the Colony of New South Wales but became a separate colony under the name Van Diemen's Land in 1825.
 * Approximately 80,000 convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land before this practice, known as transportation, ceased in 1853.
 * In 1855 the present Constitution of Tasmania was enacted, and the following year the colony formally changed its name to Tasmania.