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Land Titles Collection: Berwick, Beaconsfield, Officer – The Oscar Wanke Diaries 1919 – Broadbent’s Official Road Guide.
Lang Lang Cemetery Walk – Cemeteries in Victoria – The Beaconsfield Tip – Roots Tech March 2026.
Old magazines and newsletters – Vale Audrey Dodson – Member of the Year 2025 [Val Barnett, Tracey Roberts, Moreyn Dimsey, Robyn Jones, Marianne Rock and Fay McCoubrie] – Casey Cardinia Combined Index 21st birthday – The Oscar Wanke Diaries 1918 – Vale Frances Brown.
Detectives at work [Janet Muir Roberts] – Pakenham Cemetery Walk Sunday 18 May – Volunteers’ Morning Tea at Edrington – The Oscar Wanke Diaries 1918 – New library systems in the Research Room – A family connection to a Jewish Mayor of Ballarat [Henry Josephs JP, Florence Eddy].
The Project Team – Sausage Sizzle success – Directions to Galga [Ron Wanke] – Bleary eyes wide open-unexpected finds [Whitaker family] – Christmas meeting 2024 – Rabbit holes-again [Emigrant’s Guide to New South Wales]
Emerald Cemetery Walk – Treasures from the Oscar Wanke Collection
Vale Rex McFarlane – Member of the Year 2024 – From poverty to successful orchardist [John Wilfred Rutty, Percy Vernon Lockey, Walter Brown]
We’re moving to Berwick – 35th birthday celebrations – Volunteers’ Morning Tea and Shirley Award – Vale Maureen Patricia Stagg – Vale Lynette (Lyne) Arlene McGregor
Seventy years at Melbourne General Cemetery: The Clowes family – Two 100 year coincidences for the Dougherty Clan – Ballarat Briefings: Buninyong Library, Ballarat Gold Museum and St Paul’s Church, Bakery Hill
Barbara Sharp Member of the Year – Pastor Laurie Dyer – Dandenong Community Cemetery walk
Max Thomson Collection’s picnics – The black box (St John’s Church Upper Beaconsfield) – Dandenong Choral Society concert for the family of Luke McCoy
AMaGA’s Collections and Community Resilience Project – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle – Vale John Elliott – Proposed Cranbourne Community Hub – The Titanic Memorial Bandstand, Ballarat – Dr W Niel Gunson (1930-2023)
Trove needs your help – Kel Anderson: more than just a name – Biographical Database of Australia – Congratulations to Audrey Dodson, Cardinia Senior Citizen of the Year 2023 – Prime Ministers Avenue in Ballarat Botanical Gardens – A visit from the good fairy of family research (Onley family from Donald, Amiable Deperouzel, William James Pittard)
Berwick Cemetery Walk 30 October 2022 – 200,000 Casey Cardinia Combined Index celebrates another significant milestone – Unrecognised for 98 years (George Ritchie 1906-1924) – Virtual War Memorial Australia – The Chrozier Family – Ballarat Briefings: Ballarat Tramway Museum, Vale Anne Burrows & Honour Board WW1 St Paul’s Anglican Church, Bakery Hill – The new death certificate package – A brush with royalty
Life member presentation to Jane Rivett-Carnac – 2022 AGM – Member of the Year Award to Eileen Durdin – Restoring family links presentation by Australian Red Cross – Vision and Realisation: a centenary history of State Education in Victoria – Treasure saved from the fire – Mothercraft nurses and the Beaconsfield Babies Home – No time to say goodbye cemetery walk at Cranbourne – Berwick Cemetery Walk – Ballarat Briefings
The hapless infant (Chrozier family of Skye) – FamilySearch Affiliate Library – Ballarat Briefings – The Eacott family of Longwarry
Family newsletters – Thanks badge to Reg Kurll (Max Thomson Collection) – Web archives – Solving a naming riddle (Georgiana Spencer Morris) – Leslie Stewart Graham (1891-1947)
Georg Caspar von Ruti – Recollections and comparisons (Casey Cardinia Remembers & Max Thomson Collection) – Cormore Tea Rooms and the Funnell family
No time to say goodbye: Cranbourne Cemetery Tour – Thank you to our volunteers – Local and family history hotspots – Getting side tracked (Joseph Thompson Arblaster) – Ballarat Briefings – New in the Research Room – RHSV Pioneer Register seminar
In remembrance of Fred and Annie Sheard. An unfortunate end – A French convict added to my tree (Amiable Sierl Deperouzel) – School days (Then and Now: The Max Thomson Collection) – New in the Research Room – Ballarat Briefings
Local and Family History Hot Spots 2021 – Researching the Moran family from Narre Warren – Gransy and the Gilmore Valley (Alice Ellen Naughton) – Creswick Family (George Wallace Baird & Helena Creswick) – A farm in Switzerland – Inheritance: a memoir of genealogy, paternity and love (book review)
The fall of Rabaul and Australia’s greatest maritime disaster – More Victorian Wills and Probates online! – Bregazzi Reserve – Tales from the Berwick School Registers – The Debutante Ball (Then and Now: The Max Thomson Collection)
Memories of Officer – Vale Paul Stevenson – Thursday history talks on Zoom – Modella Hall – An Officer and a Gentleman (part 2) Charles George de Beauvoir Tupper – School and work in the depression – Ballarat Briefings – Caroline Charlotte Aurisch nee Tschirner – Has the Covid-19 lockdown been a positive or negative for you and your family? – Ora: Online Repository Assistant, a time saver – Research ideas
Lawson Poole Reserve – The Rose of Joy cot (Max Thomson Collection Then and Now) – Grandfather Francis Sharp’s family – I never thought I’d say this (life in lockdown) – Women to women. Influenza epidemic. What to do. – Ballarat Briefings – PROV Map Warper – Saints in Scottish place names – database of Scottish Hagiotoponyms – New in the Research Room
Lorraine Taylor Research Room transformation — Coffee Pen and Giggle writing group – Local & family history hot spots – An officer and a gentleman: Charles George de Beauvoir Tupper (1872-1893) – Ballarat Briefings – New in the Research Room – Member profile: Judith Power (nee Lunsden)