NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE FAMILY HISTORY
RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@mail.cth.com.au
Welcome to our new Members – Don Nielsen, Anne
& James Williamson, and Miriam Williamson
DATES TO REMEMBER
OPEN
DAY – Saturday 29th April – volunteers will be required to
show visitors around the premises…if you can spare an hour or two if would be
greatly appreciated….thank you
Next meeting is
NOTE: THE CLUB ROOMS WILL BE
CLOSED OVER EASTER - Good Friday 14th April, Saturday 15th April and
Monday 17th April.
NOTE: THE A.G.M. WILL BE
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
As you all probably know, our premises were again subjected
to a break in and robbery last month sometime between Saturday and opening on
the Monday morning.
The damage this time was minimal. They gained access through the window in the
toilet. Fortunately the monetary loss
this time was limited to less than thirty odd dollars. On a brighter note, the
damage to the premises has already been rectified thanks to Phil Eaton for the
supply of material and Ian Brady for manufacture and installation of security
grills.
Although attendance was low, those who did attend
thoroughly enjoyed the presentation by Hilda McLean of “Friends of Toowong Cemetery” fame. She once again proved to be a
most entertaining personality.
Once again, I encourage all members to support your
club through the fundraising enterprises as this allows us to purchase new
research materials. Note that the Easter Raffle is in progress and will be
drawn in April. We also have a beautiful Italian marble topped stand supplied
by Jack Piper and two highly desirable collectable plates donated by Carmen Aebersold. These prizes will be drawn in November to
celebrate another anniversary of the club.
Tickets are on sale now. Now more than ever, we need your support.
If anyone has some time to spare, please consider
being a volunteer in the office. If you
do, please see any of the duty persons or your committee members.
Do not forget that the Anniversary Hindsight is
available and that if you require extra copies, see the rostered duty person.
There are also anniversary mugs available.
OFFICE BEARERS FOR
2005/2006
President
David Jimmieson
Vice President
Elaine Elms
Secretary
Janet O’Flaherty
Treasurer
Helen Eaton
Librarian
Joanne Beeston
Assistant Librarians
Jane O’Brien, Chris Ryder & Glenys Gordon
Publications Editor (Hindsight & Newsletter)
Elaine Elms
Webpage Co-ordinator
Chris Ryder
Cemetery Records
Julie Saunders
Publicity Officer
Vacant
LIBRARY DUTY ROSTER
Doug C.
– Every Wednesday morning & 2nd Saturday morning
David – Every Monday afternoon, every Friday morning,
& 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th
Saturday morning
Janet – Every Monday morning & 2nd Saturday
morning
Elaine – Every Wednesday afternoon
Jackie –
Every Monday afternoon (Thank you Jackie for volunteering to join the Library
Duty Roster)
Jane –
3rd & 4th Saturday morning
Pat V. – 2nd Wednesday morning
Coral
– 2nd Wednesday afternoon
Trevor –
4th Wednesday afternoon
Gloria – 1st Saturday morning & 4th
Monday morning
Glenys –
Every Monday morning
Joanne – Every Friday morning & 1st, 3rd
& 4th Saturday morning
Doug S. – 1st & 3rd Friday morning
We are in need of more members to volunteer for ‘duty’. It is not hard – it is just a case of being there to assist new
members and visitors. Ideally we
would like to have two duty persons per session. At the moment, most days, we have just one
person ‘on duty’.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
(BBC2 English Programme)
If you want to watch episodes of this
very interesting family history programme, the videos are available for members
to borrow…please enquire at the office.
Payment of Membership Dues – Upon request details can be supplied to
enable you to pay via Direct Deposit. Or
you can pay by cheque. If paying by
cash, please assist by bringing the correct money if you can, as there is only
a small amount of cash/change held on the premises, due to the two break-ins.
Monthly raffles …Tickets $1.00 each
Don’t forget when you buy your raffle ticket/tickets
you can nominate your preferred item for purchase.
The Raffle for May is a
Mothers Day Raffle. 1st prize is a ladies handbag, 2nd
prize is a necklace and a pair of earrings, 3rd prize is a selection
of lavender products and 4th prize is a “Desperate Housewives” apron
(donated by EzyDVD)
EASTER RAFFLE..to be drawn on 8th April at the
meeting. Good luck to all who have
purchased tickets.
Fund raising is an essential part of Club
business, to enable us to purchase more resources to assist you in your
research. Thank you for supporting our
fundraising efforts. Don’t forget if you
‘find’ a resource that would be a welcome addition to our library, please let
office staff know.
Thank you to
the Caboolture Sports Club for their donation of $220 to enable us to purchase
the Fawkner Crematorium & Memorial Park Index and Register.
SPECIAL RAFFLE
We have been given some very beautiful
items for the Monthly raffles and it has been decided to use two of these items
in a special raffle. Prizes are a carved
wooden pedestal stand (donated by Jack Piper) and two Royal Albert Collector
Plates, one with Prince Charles and the other with the late Princess Diana
(donated by Carmen Aebersold). This
raffle will be drawn at the Club on 11th November, 2006. Tickets are $1 each and are available from
the office.
RECIPE BOOK
Don’t forget to get your
recipes in for the new book/books. There
is no limit to how many recipes you can submit, but once the book is full, it
is full. We have to limit the number of
pages to approx. 80 or it becomes unmanageable for us to produce. Leftover recipes will be kept for the ‘next
one’.
COFFEE MUGS – Our 25th Anniversary Coffee Mugs are
for sale. $8.00 each and all money
raised goes to the Club. They are
available in blue, green and brown.
STATE ARCHIVES
BDM news – As from
The State Archives are now open on the 2nd Saturday
of each month.
CENSUS
Yes it is census year again for
Laminating - $1.00 per A4
sheet (see office staff)
(Some of the) New
Additions to our library resources
Books
NZ passenger
lists – Pt. Lyttelton & Pt. Otago (donated by Jack Piper)
Seeds of Settlement
– Building and Inhabitants – Belfast & Pt. Fairy (donated by Maureen Hall)
Australian Naval
Institutes – Summer 2006-04-03 Botany Bay Mirages – Illusions of Australia’s
Convict Beginnings (donated by Stuart & Bev Davis)
Convicts and
Exiles transported from
CDs
Devon Family
History Society (donated by Jeanette Raymont)
Waverley &
South Head General cemeteries – transcripts (donated by Jack Piper)
Biographical Index
of S.A. 1836-1885 (donated by Doug Simpson)
Manly Cemetery
transcripts 1845-1993 (donated by Jack Piper)
Tasmanian
Convicts (donated by Bev and Stuart Davis)
The Mercury,
Microfiche
Emigrants from
If you want to give a
copy of your Family tree to the Club, you are most welcome, or alternatively,
maybe you would like to give just a surname list (along with State/Country)
from your family tree to the Club. This
could/would be viewed by other Club members.
You just never know to whom you may be related!
BOOK REVIEWS by Joanne Beeston (Librarian)
WOODFORD STATE SCHOOL (IN
Found in Vic
Section – Ref. Code: REF VIC WOO
SEEDS OF A SETTLEMENT – Buildings and inhabitants of Belfast & Pt.
Fairy in the 19th Century, by M.A. Syme (donated by Maureen Hall). This is a great book with a lot of individual
family history with photos of the family and their houses.
Found in Vic
Section – Ref. Code: REF VIC SEE
GUEST SPEAKER FOR
FEBRUARY
(By J. Beeston)
This talk was mainly about reading and identifying
areas on a Death Certificate, where to find the extra information and also on
the layout and the history of the
Toowong is an unusual cemetery in that where people
were buried, when the cemetery first started, was by Social Status, and not in
Religious groups as most cemeteries are.
The first cemetery for
On the 1st Sunday of every month, there are tours of
the
It was a very interesting talk and enjoyed immensely
by all who attended.
Proposed Australia-wide
Family History Index database
Family history researcher
Roma Waldron is in the process of establishing an
Australia-wide Family History Index database. She invites interested researchers to contact her
with contributions to the database. The database has the following fields:
SURNAME, NAME, BORN, PLACE, ARRIVED, SHIPS NAME, DIED, PLACE DIED, PLACE
BURIED, FATHERS SURNAME, FATHERS NAME, MOTHERS SURNAME, MOTHERS NAME, SPOUSE 1
SURNAME, SPOUSE 1 NAME, DATE, PLACE, SPOUSE 2 SURNAME, SPOUSE 2 NAME, DATE,
PLACE.
There is a sample available for viewing in the
office.
INTERNET ADDRESSES FOR
YOU TO TRY
http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/
War memorial
information
http://theholidayspot.com/birthday/agefinder.htm
A very
interesting site…tells you how many days, hours, etc. till your next birthday.
www.lds.org/library/display/0,4945,40-1-3384-9,00.html
Update from the
L.D.S.
http://www.lightage.demon.co.uk/index.htm
The Black Sheep
Index on this site is very interesting. Prices are a bit costly to get the full
article but it depends on how much you want the information. There are also
other Indexes here. Well worth looking at.
http://www.dixons.clara.co.uk/Certificates/indexbd.htm
BMD CERTIFICATES
(English) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
https://www.angelfire.com/bc/juliette/clark.html
Interesting story
of bushrangers, etc by Roma Waldron
https://www.angelfire.com/mt/forbesnewbies/hintstips.html
Tips and hints on
how to send attachments, Gedcom files, etc.