16th June 2007
NEWSLETTER
of the
CABOOLTURE FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
eMail - cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
Welcome to our new Member – Maisie Stratford
and welcome back to Diane Moore
Next meeting is Saturday, 14th July – 1 pm – all welcome
Saturday 21st
July at 1 pm – Guest Speaker – Ron Trim will give a talk about Woodford, the
area and its people.
Saturday 25th
August at 1 pm – Guest Speaker – Maisie Stratford – Maisie will give a talk on “
CONGRATULATIONS
To Doug Cook on being elected President of History
And also to Janet O’Flaherty on being elected to the
Committee of History
Office
Bearers for 2006/2007
President Vice
President Secretary
(David Jimmieson) (Elaine Elms) (Janet O’Flaherty)
Treasurer Librarian
(Helen Eaton) (Joanne Beeston)
PATRON: Greg Chippendale
Newsletter Editor
– Elaine Elms
VICE
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
It is AGM time again! You must have been happy with the
current Committee (and they must have been happy serving on the Committee) as
the only nominations received were from the current committee. There are a lot of other jobs that require
someone to take on, so if you feel inclined to take one of these positions,
please see committee members.
Volunteers in all capacities (library assistants, etc) are very
important to the successful running of the Club.
If you have visited the Club lately, as well as all the
improvements inside the rooms, you will see that the back verandah has now been
secured. This means the old microfiche
viewers can be stored there, leaving more space in the meeting room. The table and chairs will also be able to
stay out on the verandah permanently (one less job to do when closing the rooms
in the afternoon!)
Thank you
to everyone who has supported the current committee in their endeavours to make
the club an enjoyable place to research/visit; thank you to everyone who has
supported the raffles over the past year; thank you also to those who have
donated items for the raffles or have made cash donations. The winner of the very nice water cooler (donated and
made by Dan O’Brien) will be announced at today’s meeting.
It is very pleasing to see that so
many of our Club members have renewed their membership
and we look forward to seeing them in the near future. It is also noted that we have gained a large
number of new members over the past months.
Happy researching,
Elaine (in the absence of our Club President)
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF CFHRG INC.
Was held on Saturday 16th
June 2007 .
NOMINATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE POSITIONS FOR THE YEAR 2007/2008
President – David Jimmieson Vice
President – Elaine Elms
Secretary – Janet O’Flaherty Treasurer
– Helen Eaton
All the above were re-elected unopposed. Congratulations
to all.
REMINDER:
MEMBERSHIP FEES WERE DUE AS OF 30th APRIL 2007.
Don’t forget to submit a list of your “Members
Interests” if you want them listed on our website. Your name and details will not be on the
website. You will be allocated an ID
number and any replies to our club email address will be forwarded to you.
STORIES WANTED FOR THE
SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF OUR CLUB MAGAZINE
If you have a
story to tell about your family history research, or a problem you can’t solve,
write a story, doesn’t have to be a long story, it can consist of a few lines
and a photo, or a lot of lines and no photo, whatever you want, because you
just don’t know who has the missing piece of information that you are looking
for. Stories for the September issue
need to be submitted by beginning of August.
Stories can be left for me, at the office, or you can email them to me
at nitemare1948@yahoo.com.au
Thank you to
Janet T. for submitting your story for the September issue of the Hindsight….Elaine
NEW RESOURCES
Cemeteries -
Wallangarra Cemetery, Sherwood Cemetery, NSW combination cemeteries, Vol 7
& 8, donated by J. Piper
Lithgow City Council cemetery donated by J. Jones
Collection of military honour & memorial rolls
General
resources-
Short cuts for saving ideas for genealogy
Census muster
Australian & British Isles
– These 3 donated by M. Jamieson
District registration records &
maps.
Sunshine coast discovering the relatives & other stories
Arrows of Hope selected convict stories donated by J. Beeston
125 years of the Advertiser,
Visitation of
‘Fairlie’ 1848 passenger list
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. Duty
persons are there to help assist you with your research, not to do it for
you. Please be considerate to all who
volunteer to be duty persons as they have their own research that they would
like to do as well. At the moment, most
days, we have just one person ‘on duty’.
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help out with library duty
on a regular basis or on a ‘needs be’ basis.
OPENING HOURS – PLEASE NOTE: The Club will be closed
on Public Holidays due to lack of volunteers. If in doubt,
please phone to find out before making the trip into town.
While we make
every effort to open the Club at the rostered times, a shortage of volunteers
means we are unable to provide emergency cover for roster volunteers who are unable
to attend on their rostered days, due to other commitments. Please understand if you arrive to find the
Clubrooms unattended.
Also be aware,
that if the rostered duty persons are the only members in attendance, at
approx. 1pm on Mondays and Saturdays, the Club will close early.
FOR
Coffee Mugs – these are $5 each and come in three
colours – blue, green and brown.
Recipe Book (Members Favourite Recipes) is available
again in limited numbers if anyone wants a copy…..$5.00 each
Multi coloured Scribblers are also available.
Laminating – This can be done at the office – Cost is
$1 for a A4 sheet
Websites for you to try –
http://www.rookwoodindependent.com.au/index.aspx
There are over
620,000 burials and 210,000 cremations recorded at Rookwood.
The first burials took place in 1867. Older monuments have since been moved to Rookwood from earlier burial grounds resumed elsewhere in
On left hand side
of page, click on “cemetery search”….on line searchable database (very good
site)
This is very
helpful if you have a genealogy question relating to this area of N.Z.
Check out www.rootsweb.com
The oldest and
largest FREE genealogy site supported by Ancestry.com
http://www.wirksworth.org.uk/frontpag.htm
Lots of
Derbyshire information on this website, well worth looking at. Searchable data
bases on nearly everything to do with the area.
This is a very interesting site.