MEETING DATES 2007
| 14 March |
MARILYN ROWAN NSW Births, deaths & marriage certificates
and the transcription service |
| 11 April |
MICHELLE NICHOLS Family history : back to basics |
| 9 May |
HELEN DICKINSON Hawkesbury Landholders |
| 13 June |
TED BRILL History of Ebenezer Church & cemetery |
Meeting held 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10am in the Tebbutt Room,
Windsor Library
INFORMATION
ROSE FAMILY
Rose Reunion, Butterfly Farm, Wilberforce on Sunday 25th March 2007.
GRONO FAMILY
Grono family descendants are planning a reunion on Sunday, 6th May 2007
at Ebenezer Church.
How I got started on family history?
by member Del Swain
In 1961 on our way home from living in USA for three years where my husband
Graham studied at the University of Maryland and obtained his Ph.D., we
visited his two maiden great aunts in their eighties who lived in the
family home in Devon in England. They presented us with a miniature portrait
of their grandfather William Swain a tanner. During this visit we also
met some of Graham¹s father¹s first cousins who had stayed in
England while several branches of the family emigrated to Australia. I
then drew up a rough family tree of the Swain side of the family to sort
everyone out. Back in Australia I forgot about family history and was
kept busy raising four sons. In 1981 at a University Women Graduates meeting
the guest speaker was Nick Vine Hall, then President of the Society of
Australian Genealogists who convinced me I should delve further into the
family tree . I did not join the Hawkesbury family history group when
it first began as I had no ancestors from the area but once Michelle acquired
such sources as the IGI I was very happy to become a member. I have been
involved in helping organise family reunions for the Bryants and Thomsons
and Waltons on my side and for the Vidlers, Blows and Grahams on my husband¹s
side and have also compiled several books on the Blow family. Most of
my research was done the hard way by constant trips to Sydney to SAG or
what was then State Archives with much turning of handles and pouring
over shipping lists on microfilm before the days of indexes as well as
much letter writing to distant relatives and the Registry of BDMs before
anything became available on the internet. Hooray for Michelle and all
the research aids that she has added to the library over the years to
make our research so much easier and for the interesting speakers she
gets to our meetings. Del Swain
Surfing the internet……. Sites for family historians
Some websites for those with internet access. The Library has free access
to the internet, contact 4560 4460 for bookings at Windsor & 4578
2002 for Richmond bookings.
Cemeteries http://www.ozgenonline.com/aust_cemeteries/nsw/index.htm
Mailing lists for NSW http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/NSWW/mailists.html#top
Stock Brands (NSW) 1889 http://www.rootsweb.com/~billingh/brands.htm
~ Let us know of sites, that you have tried with (or
without) success ~
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