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 ($)
 * 1839-1938 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

'''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.'''

FamilySearch Library

 * Click on "Places within Australia, Tasmania". Choose a location to see if additional online church records are available.

Archives
Tasmanian Government
 * Researching Family Trees

[https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/tas/? Tasmanian Archives] Archives Office of Tasmania 91 Murray Street Hobart, Tasmania 7000 Telephone: 03 6233 7488 Facsimile: 03 6233 7902 Email [mailto:taho@education.tas.gov.au taho@education.tas.gov.au]
 * Church Registrations
 * Church registers held in the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office / State of Tasmania, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office
 * Searching Tasmanian Archives

Catholic Diocese of Hobart Archives and Heritage Collection 35 Tower Road New Town, Tasmania 7008 Australia GPO Box 62 Hobart, Tasmania 7001 Australia Telephone: 03 6231 4740 Website

Anglican Diocese of Tasmania Registry Office Level 1, 125 Macquarie Street Hobart TAS 7000 Australia GPO Box 748 Hobart TAS 7001 Phone: 03 6220 2019 Email: registrar@anglicantas.org.au -

Libraries
Libraries Tasmania
 * Family History
 * Church Registrations

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 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.
 * Parish registers began for:
 * Baptist Church in 1841
 * Church of England in 1803
 * Congregational Church in 1830
 * Presbyterian Church in 1823
 * Roman Catholic Church in 1835
 * Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1828