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The Hawkesbury Family History Group is a support & information group for family historians & is co-ordinated by the Hawkesbury City Council Library Service. Meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month, except January, commencing at 10am in the Tebbutt Room of Hawkesbury Central Library, located at 300 George Street Library, Windsor. (Car parking is available underground, accessible by entering Christie Street, off George Street) Guest speakers talk on a variety of topics. There is no joining or membership fees & anyone interested is welcome to attend.

MEETING DATES 2010

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2010
10 February VIC KING Fleshing out your family histories
10 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Introduction to FamilySearch facilities at Hawkesbury City Library
14 April SYLVIA MURPHY Researching ancestors in the days of the Raj (British ancestors in India)
12 May Excursion to Powerhouse Museum facility, Castle Hill
9 June CATHY McHARDY Reminiscences of Richmond by Samuel Boughton
14 July MARK ST LEON History of the Circus
11 August MEGAN MARTIN Beyond Mrs Beeton's
8 September TBC
13 October TBC
10 November

TBC

8 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2009

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2009
11 February BRAD ARGENT Discover Ancestry.com.au
11 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Old Registers, Land – New research tool for NSW
8 April JEREMY PALMER English & Welsh Wills for family history
13 May CATHY MCHARDY & ARTHUR COOPER Glossodia history book by Arthur Cooper- official launch by Cathy McHardy – to be confirmed
10 June TED BRILL Tour of Ebenezer Church & Cemetery
8 July DR KEN KNIGHT Colourful Colonial Publicans
12 August ALISON SPENCER History of postcards
10 September MICHELLE NICHOLS Researching Scandals, Crime & Corruption
14 October LINDSAY ALLEN Researching occupations at State Records
11 November

JAN BARKLEY JACK About “Hawkesbury Settlement revealed” book

9 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2008

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2008
13 February DR CAROL LISTON Parramatta Orphan School
12 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Lucy Osburn Women with a Mission - Womens History Month
9 April KAREN MILLS History of the Grono family
14 May DR GRACE KARSKENS New history of early Sydney (Topic to be confirmed)
11 June

GAIL DAVIS Treasures from the State Records

9 July

CAROL BAXTER Scandal and Skulduggery in early Sydney

13 August

JOHN LOW From Inns to Villages : Glimpses of Family Life in the Blue Mountains

10 September

PAUL BRUNTON Rum Rebellion 1808

8 October

MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury : a peep at the past - from photographs

12 November

CHERYL MONGAN World War 1 records

10 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2007

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2007
14 February HENRY CHAN Chinese family history research
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
11 July FIONA BURN Photographs for family & local history National Archives of Australia
8 August LAURIE FORTH Life & times of Margaret Catchpole
12 September Excursion to State Records at Western Sydney Records Centre 143 O'Connell Street, Kingswood 2747
10 October MICHELLE NICHOLS NSW Police Gazettes
14 November JEREMY PALMER UK family history sources
12 December SHOW & TELL Bring along an item of interest & end of year party

MEETING DATES 2006

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2006
8 February HEATHER GARNSEY NSW Government Gazettes & AGCI (Australian Genealogy Computer Index)
8 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Census records in family history research
12 April JAN HERIVEL World War 1 research : Castlereagh soldiers
10 May ROBYNNE WINLEY My Hawkesbury convict ancestors
14 June TRIVIA QUIZ???? Everyone welcome, come along & have some fun!!
12 July CATHY McHARDY Place names in the Hawkesbury district
9 August Snapshots of grandfathers & grandfathers (small 5 min presentations by members of the group)
13 September JEANETTE PELOSI Murder in the family - sources at State Records
11 October JOHN PARTRIDGE History of Gaols in NSW
8 November JONATHAN AULD Computers & family history: family history programs & creating family history webpages
13 December SHOW & TELL Bring along an item of interest & end of year party

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