MEETING DATES 2014

Meeting held 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10am in the Tebbutt Room, Windsor Library

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EVENTS

FAMILY HISTORY CLASSES: BRITISH NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES (BNA)

Thursday 9 October 6.30-8.30pm
Did you know that many British newspapers can be accessed through the BNA database? Take the opportunity to learn more about this extensive resource.
$10 - bookings essential, phone 4560-4460 to book a place or email history@hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au

NEWS

The National Library of Australia looking for more information about early church banner in their collection. Can you help?

HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH DISPLAY

Today is the last day of the historical photograph display in the Library. The display will be removed on Thursday 9 October.

NEW MATERIAL ~ AVAILABLE IN THE LOCAL STUDIES COLLECTION

• Colonial duchesses: the migration of Irish women to NSW before the great famine / Elizabeth Rushen RL325.241509944 RUS
• Farewell my children: Irish assisted emigration to Australia 1848-1870 / Richard E. Reid
  RL994.0049162 REI
• Port Jackson pullers : champion oarsmen of early Australia / Stephen Gard
  RL797.1230994 GAR
• William Cox and Cox's road a bicentenary souvenir / Anne-Maree Harriet Cox Whitaker
  RL994.41 COX

WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS

LOST IN ALL YOUR 'STUFF

Step back from your genealogy and what do you find? Lost weekend put on by the Society of Australian Genealogists will be held on Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 November 2014 at State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street Sydney. Jonathan Auld is one of the speakers!!
http://www.sag.org.au/component/content/article/47-courses-etc/weekend-seminars/248-lost-in-early-nsw.html

14TH AUSTRALASIAN CONGRESS ON GENEALOGY & HERALDRY 26-30 MARCH 2015

A great opportunity for new and experienced family historians to hear many of the world’s best speakers on family history, genealogy and heraldry. HAGSOC & AFFHO invite you to attend. Early bird registration closes on 31 October
http://www.congress2015.org.au/

UPDATE FROM NSW REGISTRY OFFICE

Some recent changes have improved the new BDM indexes. Check it out…
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/bdm_fh.html

SLAB BARN STUDY

SURFING THE INTERNET...SITES FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS

Members with internet access should check out the following interesting sites. The Library has free access to the internet, contact 4560 4460 for bookings at Windsor & 4578 2002 for Richmond bookings. If you have your own laptop we also have free wireless. The password is available from the Information Desk.

• Census of horses and owners
  http://nswanzaccentenary.records.nsw.gov.au/index.php/on-the-homefront/census-of-horses-and-owners/  
• British Pathe film archives
  https://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
• Sydney maps by decades
  http://guides.sl.nsw.gov.au/content.php?pid=184734&sid=5214224#eighteenten
• NSW Justice of the Police
  http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/archives-in-brief/archives-in-brief-123
• How to find an illegitimate father
  http://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/how-to-find-the-father-of-an-illegitimate-child/
• Age calculator
  http://www.calculator.net/age-calculator.html
• Czech ancestry 
  http://czechgenealogy.nase-koreny.cz/ 

~ Let us know of sites, that you have tried with (or without) success ~