CABOOLTURE FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH
GROUP INC. NEWSLETTER
February 2009
Phone No - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
Website - http://cfhrg.tripod.com
From the Minutes –
If you are unable to attend the meeting and
you require a copy of the General Meeting minutes, please contact the
Secretary.
Books with fragile spines are not to be
photocopied. The books have a sticker on
them saying “NO PHOTOCOPYING”. CDs and
microfiche are NOT FOR LOAN. There are
also some books in the Library with NOT FOR LOAN stickers on them as well.
Two new members (Ann Mealin
& Judith Le Comte) have joined the Club.
Congratulations to Helen Eaton
and Toni White - Your book
on the Eaton Family is an absolute credit to you both. (There is a copy of the book in our library)
Thank you to everyone who supported the
Christmas raffles, by donating items for the raffles and by purchasing tickets
in the raffles. There were lots and lots
of prizes and $515 was raised.
The Hall Stand raffle was won by Jane …Congratulations
Jane; we know it has gone to a good home! And a total of $151 was raised with
this raffle.
The monthly raffle winners were (Money
raised by this raffle will be used to purchase more resources to help you with
your research)
Maisie
Joanne
Jack
Donations of items for the
Easter raffle are required. So if you have any items suitable for the
raffle they would be greatly appreciated. i.e. Easter eggs, chocolates, lollies
or grocery items.
Next meeting will be 1 pm
Saturday 14th March 2009 at which time you can collect your March 2009 edition
of the Hindsight.
There are quite a lot of new
resources in the Library – a full list will be in your March Hindsight.
Just a few are –
Eaglehawk & District Pioneer Registers
Gympie Gold
And Commonwealth Electoral Roll Qld. 1913
Here are some interesting
websites that may help you with your research.
http://members.pcug.org.au/~croe/ozb/oz_boer.cgi
Searchable Boer War
database
Free to search
(over 60,040 notices on the site so far)….but costs to submit a Memoriam, etc.
http://www.familyhistorysa.info/births-marriages-deaths/cemeteries/
Two very good
searchable databases for
NZ North Shore
Cemeteries – Burial records start from the 1850s and Cremation records start
from 1974.
www.northshorecity.govt.nz (and
click on ‘Cemetery Search’ on right hand side of page)
And
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sooty/rohtitlepage.html
New search
engine…can be searched using capitals, so great for those surnames that mean
something else!!…
http://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/Home/