Tonight’s meeting will be an in-house activity where we’re asking members to talk about an interesting or unusual headstone or cemetery story. Bring along a picture on a usb if you’d like to show as well as tell.
Join us on a walk through the beautiful and historic Lang Lang Cemetery as we explore its connections with the Great War.
Forty-eight families watched, waited and worried for 98 men who enlisted and tried to make it safely back home. Twenty-four made the supreme sacrifice; 15 were killed in action on the battlefields of the Western Front, 2 w [...]
Berwick Military Medals has been part of our local community for more than ten years. This family business has showcased Michael Madden’s expertise in the preservation and framing of servicemen and womens’ medals. Service medals cannot be reissued if they are lost, stolen or damaged after the death of the person they were issued to. You [...]
We’ve all got family history treasures that we’d like to keep and pass down through the family. But how many of us are storing them in ways that will prevent their deterioration and enable us to do so? Angela Henricksen from Archival Survival is coming to help!
No need to book – visitors are always welcome.
We’re thrilled to welcome Lisa Habermann to our July meeting as our guest speaker. Lisa will be talking to us about putting and writing our living history into a book.
Life Writing is a great way to hand down your living history to family members; to simply keep for yourself; or to send out into the world! If anyone has ever told you, [...]
Ann Copeland (SLV photo)
We’re very excited to welcome Ann Copeland to our June meeting. Ann is a librarian in the Family History team at the State Library Victoria. She joined the team in 2011, prior to that she worked in university libraries.
Ann became interested in genealogy when she started researching her own family over 10 years [...]
We’re very excited to have one of members presenting a talk this month. Anne Blair will demonstrate how to access Scottish records through the ScotlandsPeople website.
This site has the official Government records for births, deaths and marriages, plus census returns and old parish records for Scotland.
There is no joining fee on the Sc [...]
Researching, know your facts. A guide to expand your research beyond local records.
Penny Harris will be sharing some fabulous insights about research and extending the possibility of discovering further information in Australia and beyond with us. All family history researchers from beginners to advanced will find something of interest in Pe [...]
A century after the guns fell silent Pakenham’s WWI volunteers, 1914-18
Our guest speaker for February is Patrick Ferry who is in the process of writing a book on Pakenham’s WW1 volunteers. Patrick will give a talk about some of the really interesting characters from his research. He will also talk a little about the St Patrick&# [...]
