February 2008
NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE FAMILY
HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
Website - http://cfhrg.tripod.com
WELCOME BACK EVERYONE….HERE’S
TO ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR OF RESEARCH…..Check out all the new resources in the
Library, Computer Room and Microfiche Room.
Welcome to our new
Members – William Roberts, Dr. Jan King, Brian Roberts, Brian & Virginia
Nicholas and Lynette Nicol
Welcome back – Don and
Melva Buckle
The Raffle
for the restored Dressing Table and Stool (kindly donated by Jack Piper) will
be drawn today. 2nd prize is a “Coffee
Table” Atlas (kindly donated by Janet O’Flaherty). Tickets are still available and are $1.00
each.
Due to lack
of patronage and reduction in opening hours, any new volunteers will only be
required to ‘be on duty’ one day a month.
http://www.naa.gov.au/whats-on/online/feature-exhibits/gift.aspx
WW1 records
etc
The Nambour
Chronicle has put its first 50 years from 1903 on the internet.
www.nambour-chronicle.com
if anyone is interested. You have to register, but it is free to
look.
The
Sunshine Coast Daily is also on line at www.thedaily.com.au
(includes the
Bowna cemetery list, First Fleet List, 2nd Fleet and 3rd Fleet, etc)
...interesting site
Don’t
forget to check back regularly at the Brisbane City Council Cemetery
website. It is updated on a regular
basis. While searching this site last
month, I came across burials dated October 2007.
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au
(click on
“Find Out about….Cemeteries” from the listing on right hand side of page…..then
go to “Grave Location Search”, then “Search our Cemetery Records to find grave
location details”)
Check back
regularly on the LDS site as well….new information is continually being
added….. www.familysearch.org
A good
website for Gloucestershire, very interesting even if no family connections.
i.e. for manslaughter they were 'burnt on the hand'. Prison or hanging for
murder. Lots of children burnt to death with clothes catching fire, lots of
drownings.
www.genebug.net/glsinquests.htm
Very large
file of Gloucestershire Inquests, (the names, helpfully all capitalised). This site is from 'patsymac's genealogy page'
and she has quite a bit of
Fund
raising is a necessity. This is the only
way that we can keep on acquiring new resources to help you with your
research. If you have any ideas on
fundraising, please let us know. In the
meantime, we will continue with the Monthly Raffles. All money raised by the Monthly Raffles is
spent on resources.