Spreading Branches

Life and death on the edge of the swamp: a walk in Bunyip Cemetery 27 October 2019 – Daly Waters air disaster memorial at Bunyip – proposed writing group – 1001 steps backwards (Bayview Park and the Aurisch family) – The making of our road network (Max Thomson Collection Then and Now) – New in the Research Room – Ballarat Briefings – Many family history resources are free

Happy 15th birthday Casey Cardinia Combined Index – President’s report – Ballarat Briefings – Lorraine Taylor’s thank you – Elisha Stephen Grosse: second winner of Stawell Gift in 1879 – Member of the Year 2019 award – Haystacks (Max Thomson Collection Then and Now) – Sister Kirkpatrick: a mystery – Casey Cardinia Remembers: the bad ones in Casey – Seeking William Arch James – Hamilton Family History Expo review – New in the Research Room

Dedication of Lorraine Taylor Research Room – Our 30th birthday celebrations – 2019 Volunteers’ Morning Tea – Heritage Festival at Fisherman’s Cottage – Ballarat Briefings – Then and Now: modern conveniences – Casey Cardinia: Elletts’ Grandma – March general meeting with the Scouts – A scouting history – A short sad life [Catherine Doherty 1889-1921] – James Ralston at Fromelles.

Dr and Mrs Elliot Drake – 2019 Holt Australia Day Awards – Casey Cardinia Remembers: Koo Wee Rup Secondary School gates, Koo Wee Rup clocks, BJ Wallis Gardens – Then and Now: Harkaway Tennis Club – The Common Riding (Scottish Borders) – Ballarat Briefings – The enumerated cat.

Peace at last: a World War 1 walk at Lang Lang Cemetery – AGM roundup – Casey Cardinia Remembers: Laurie Cleary & Cyril Beechey – Then and Now: Christmas Dinner – Interesting headstone stories – Frances Elmes & the Melbourne Cookery Book – Writing Competition entries: Pirates by Lyne McGregor,  Harkaway lad new clerk of Parliament by Barbara Sharp, Generous genealogists by Margaret Hunter – New in the Research Room.

Member of the Year: Jane Rivett-Carnac – AGM roundup – Frances Fitzgerald Elmes (1867-1919) by Marianne Rocke – Casey Cardinia Remembers the good, the bad and the ugly – Then and Now: Narre Warren North – Writing Competition entries: Joachim Popp by Brenda Wheeler, Getting sidetracked while researching a soldier by Jane Rivett-Carnac, Hard life, hard times by Margaret Hunter – Moran-McLellan-Duncan reunion – The Research Room: this thing called LibraryThing.

Another successful cemetery walk – Cranbourne 22 April 2018 – Phyllis Bould’s magnificent poppies – The Research Room (on the computers) – Our stately trees (Casey Cardinia Remembers) – Writing competition entries: An unconventional family by Margaret Hunter, She was always nice to me by Lynne Bradley.

The trouble with Lyndhurst (Casey Cardinia Remembers) – Captain David Jones of Tandderwen Orchard – Writing Competition entries: Basking in the Moonlite by Lynne Bradley, Interesting and unexpected aspects of research by Jane Rivett-Carnac – Land titles by Marianne Rocke – On the shelves (in the Research Room).

Writing the war at Cranbourne Library – Local History Archive & NW&DFHG Research Room launch – Colac and VAFHO Family History Expo – On the shelves (in the Research Room) – Berwick RSL (Casey Cardinia Remembers) by Eileen Durdin – Writing Competition entries: Death on the high seas-one family’s immigrant experience by Ken Swadling, England, 26 July, 1948 by Di Christensen, A Promise by Moreyn Dimsey and People that bind us from our past by Kerryn Maxwell – Vale: Alice Amelia Pattison.

The beginning of NW&DFHG – AGM Round up – Do you read genealogy blogs on the net? – Rootsweb mailing lists – Writing Competition entries: Several violent deaths in the family by Susan Arlove, Emily’s choice by Jane Rivett-Carnac – One man’s treasures by Lynne Bradley – Narre Warren Mechanics Institute (Casey Cardinia Remembers) – Melbourne University Archives.

Fun & Frolics at Narre Warren North by Max Thomson – The grieving mother by Di Christensen – Greg Clydesdale Square (Casey Cardinia Remembers) by Eileen Durdin – A successful sausage sizzle by John Uren – For some the bell tolled: a World War  walk in Harkaway Cemetery by Jane Rivett-Carnac, Writing Competition entries: All it took was a photo by Kerryn Maxwell, Lakes Creek State School by Ken Swadling, An interesting military connection found while researching my New Zealand family by Jane Rivett-Carnac – A teacher in your family by Marianne Rocke – New in the Research Room.

Our move – Great recognition for local Presidents by Fay McCoubrie – Clusters (Casey Cardinia Remembers) by Lynne Bradley – England and Wales research: the new GRO online index by Marianne Rocke – Writing Competition entries: There is a Pirate on our tree by Jane Rivett-Carnac, No skeletons by Marianne Rocke, Henry Barton Stray Sharp by Lorraine Taylor – The Shire at war (Alberton) by Di Christensen – Vale: Judith Johnson – New in the Research Room.

Issue 110 November 2016

Ordinary people, interesting lives: a walk in Historic Harkaway Cemetery Sunday 30 October by Jane Rivett-Carnac – Preserving your genealogical research by Di Christensen – Member Profile, Lois Giacometti – Cite Trove – Snipping Tool – The short life of Emma Box from Harkaway – Home Front (Ballarat Genealogical Society) by Di Christensen – 2017 Writing Competition – Ron Andrews Park (Casey Cardinia Remembers) by Lynne Bradley – 2017 workshop schedule – Vale Anne Rae Smith – New in the Research Room

AGM Roundup – The 2017 Shirley Award ‘The Press Pass’ – Map Spy Viewer – Lost Diggers of Fromelles by Di Christensen – Chaplain-Captain Frederick Percy Williams MC 58th Battalion by Di Christensen – Max Thomson’s memories of World War 2 (part 2) – Australian writers remembered at Lynbrook (Casey Cardinia Remembers) by Lynne Bradley – New in the Research Room

Have you heard about Trove?? – Sacrifice & Patriotism Cemetery Tour – AGM Notice – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle report – Max Thomson’s memories of World War 2 (part 1) – Narre Warren Memorial Gates – Robert William Moors – Pioneering: a tale of the bush – New in the Research Room

Vale Stephen Cowell – Research Room News – Conviction by Gay Hendriksen – Looking back … and ahead (Victorian BDMs online) – Patrick Northeast Wetlands Reserve – JC Lloyd Square – City of Berwick Bicycle Path Network.

Pakenham Cemetery’s indomitable women – Lucy Pepper – Pakenham Cemetery’s 150 anniversary – 2016 workshop schedule – Nar Nar Goon conversations at Casey Cardinia Remembers – Ask Granny – Our dancing skeletons.

AGM Roundup – The Last Post – Research Room News and new additions – The cousin of my Great Aunt was a Victoria Cross Winner (Albert David Lowerson) – Cranbourne’s Floral Clock.

100 men, 100 years: a World War 1 Walk in Berwick Cemetery – Springvale Botanical Cemetery tour – Casey Cardinia Remembers and Mother’s Day – Research Room News and new additions – Private L Papley.

Dr Francis Langley – Research Room News and new additions – Casey Cardinia Remembers and the Great War – Casey Cardinia Combined Index

Berwick Cemetery Tour – Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Report – Benjamin Muffett 1861-1903 – David Hughes – A Wedding Comparison – Research Room News and new additions

2014 AGM Roundup – Research Room News and additions – 2014 Shirley Award Winner – 2104 Member of the Year

Narre Warren & District Family History Group’s 25th Birthday – The Mystery of Raheen – Vale: Wendy Brock & Jessie Etherington – Research Room News and new additions

19 Kinds of death records & their uses – Genealogy books in Casey Cardinia libraries – A twist in every tale – Away Days – Research Room News and new additions

Grave Secrets (symbolism in cemeteries) – Residents of Upper Beaconsfield website – Research Room News and new additions – Remember This – Away Days

2013 AGM Roundup – Research Room News and new additions – An unusual reunion pt 3 – Away Days

Issue 96 May 2013

Grave Stories of the Queen Victoria Market – Warrnambool research – Sausage Sizzle Report – Research Room News and new additions – An unusual reunion pt 2 – Away Days – AGM Notice

Our day at the Salvos – An unusual reunion pt1 – Sausage Sizzle Report – Research Room News and new additions – VAFHO Conference

South East Victoria Family & Regional History Expo 2012 – Research Room News and new additions –  Closet Awards December 2012

2012 AGM Roundup – Research Room News and new additions – Cranbourne Cemetery Tour October 2012 – Closet Awards December 2012

War Comes to Australia: 70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin 19 Feb 2012 – 2012 AGM – Research Room News and new additions – Headstone Theft a Grave Mistake – Rookwood Cemetery – NW&DFHG Members’ Interests.

Gippsland cemeteries Away Day – Research Room News & new additions – Delicious (social bookmarking) – The Writing on the Wall or Practical Patriotism shown at Broadford: an article on Wilfred John Herrick – Local Matters at Grill’d, Fountain Gate

Didn’t we meet under the clocks?: an article on Jenny Davies and her research into Flinders Street Station – RSS Feeds – Research Room News and new additions – Local Matters at Grill’d, Fountain Gate – Antiques Appraisal Day

2011 AGM Roundup – Research Room News and new additions – Tribute to Don Grant – Adam Ritchie (Berwick) – Grace Paterson (Harkaway) – Blogging – Mary Augusta Hillbrick Funeral Notice – new websites

Vive la Revolution: the digital revolution – Michael Holt Obituary – Research Room News and new additions – Murdoch McDonald Obituary – new websites

Ballarat Away Day Report – Albert McCormack shot at Berwick 1925 – Research Room News and new additions – One Hundred Years On: What a difference a century makes – Timeline Fair Report – new websites

Australian Screen – South East Victoria Family & Regional History Expo – Research Room News and new additions – Mary Anderson (Cranbourne 1928) – Founders and Survivors Project – new websites

2010 Member of the Year – AGM Roundup – Research Room News and new additions – Ada Ackerly wins Frances Brown Award -new websites – Away Day to PMI

Recognising Women in War – New home of Cornish Association of Victoria – change to NW&DFHG Constitution – Research Room News and new additions – ScamWatch – The London Gazette – websites – Mrs R Mickle Obituary 1919

James Timmins’ New Memorial – Research Room News and new additions – The Story behind the Ancestry Raffle – new websites – Local History societies

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