NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@mail.cth.com.au
Welcome to our new Members – Deborah Lee & Barrie Brown
DATES TO
REMEMBER
Saturday 29th July – Guest Speaker - Roma Waldron – “
Saturday 26th August – Guest Speaker – Desley Schafer – “How to keep your records”.
Next meeting is
PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
Our Annual General Meeting is over for another
term. All positions were returned
unopposed. We must be doing things right
after all. I must make mention of the
fact that a new position has been created as Researcher Librarian and it has
been filled by Jack Piper. This has effectively formalized the work that Jack
undertakes.
Back to that old subject where once again, I
encourage all members to support your club through the fundraising enterprises
as this allows us to purchase new research materials.
We have a beautiful Italian marble topped stand
supplied by Jack Piper and two highly desirable collectable plates donated by
Carmen Aebersold. The stand will be on
display when the rooms are open and the prizes will be drawn in November to
celebrate the anniversary of the club.
Tickets are on sale now at the low cost of one dollar ($1) each so get
your tickets now. Now more than ever, we
need your support.
Our plan at present is to try to get the verandah
area enclosed securely. Once done, we
will be able to store items outside and then have more room inside.
If anyone has some time to spare, please consider
being a volunteer in the office. If you
wish to do so, please see any of the duty persons or your committee members.
Happy researching,
David
FROM THE
VICE-PRESIDENT
I came across the Genealogy Society of Victoria
website, and discovered they sell vouchers for use on PRO1901 census (both 5
and 10 Pounds), 1837 On Line (5 pounds) and Family History on Line (both 5 and
10 pounds)…if you are interested in any of these sites and have been wondering
how to make payment to use the sites, you can purchase the required vouchers
from GSV in Australia.
5 pound vouchers cost $16.50AU
10 pound vouchers cost $33.00AU
http://familyhistorybookshop.org.au/category20_1.htm
If anyone uses or has used this method to purchase
vouchers, can you please let us know how you get on….thank you, Elaine
It has been suggested that we include a regular
column in the Hindsight “Help Wanted”, where members who are having difficulty
with their research may like to submit questions about certain aspects of their
research. So get your thinking caps on,
and depending on what space is available in the magazine, your questions will
be printed. Remember, our magazine goes
to other genealogy clubs all over
…thank you, Elaine
OFFICE BEARERS FOR 2006/2007
President
David Jimmieson
Vice President
Elaine Elms
Secretary
Janet O’Flaherty
Treasurer
Helen Eaton
Librarian
Joanne Beeston
Assistant Librarians
Jane O’Brien, Chris Ryder
Library Resource
Researcher
Jack Piper
Publications Editor (Hindsight & Newsletter)
Elaine Elms
Membership Secretary
Glenys Gordon
Webpage Co-ordinator
Chris Ryder
Cemetery Records
Vacant
Publicity Officer
Vacant
FOR
Fund raising
is essential to provide new resources for your research – if you find a useful
resource for sale that may be of interest to members of the Club, please advise
office staff….we do try to purchase items from different parts of
Raffle Tickets - $1 a ticket – There is a different
raffle each month, with the draw being on meeting day. Usually there are 2 or 3 prizes, sometimes
4. All monies raised through raffles are
used to buy resources for the use of Club members.
Special Raffle - $1 a ticket – This raffle is for a hand
carved wooden pedestal stand for 1st prize.
2nd prize is a pair of Royal Albert collectable plates….very beautiful
prizes.
Coffee Mugs – There are both ordinary CFHRG coffee
mugs and 25th Anniversary coffee mugs for sale…..these are $5 each and come in
three colours – blue, green and brown.
Recipe Books – The new book Recipes for All Occasions
is now available – cost is $5 a book…there are only a few copies left.
Silver Circle – There are still a few numbers
left. If you are interested please see
office staff. Cost is $10. It will run over 5 weeks. There will be a weekly prize of $20 for the
first 4 weeks, and for the 5th week, the prize is $100. Got to be in it, to win it!!!
Laminating – This can be done at the office – Cost
is $1 an A4 sheet.
Scribblers – 50 cents each.
THANK
YOU.
Thank you to everyone who has donated prizes for the
raffles. There has been a terrific
variety of items donated over the past year or so – something for everyone!!
CURRENT RAFFLE
PRIZES
1st prize – Adult pass to Australia Zoo
2nd prize – Adult pass to Australia Zoo
3rd prize – 3 floral microwave dishes
The current raffle prizes of passes to Australia Zoo
were cheerfully donated by Australia Zoo.
HISTORY
Tickets for the Fair are available from the Office -
$8.00 each
If you buy your ticket ‘at the door on the day’ they
will be $10.00 each.
The fair is at the Mt.Gravatt Showgrounds on Sunday
3rd September
PIE
DRIVE.
Thank you to
everyone who supported the recent Pie
Drive. As you will know, there were
some ‘shorts’, which the delivery man said would be delivered that same day,
before lunch. As you will know, this did
not happen and the items were not supplied for quite a few days. Apologies to Liz for the length of time it
took to get all of her ordered items.
HINDSIGHT
MAGAZINE.
Also don’t forget our birthday
page in the Hindsight. If your birthday is in September, October
or November, PLEASE submit your baby/toddler photo for
inclusion in the September issue…so far there has been only two photos
submitted for the Sept. issue….thank you, Elaine.
AUSTRALIAN
FAMILY TREE CONNECTIONS MAGAZINE.
Australian Family Tree
Connections magazine –
this is available from the office. We
are sent 5 copies of this magazine every month, so if you purchase from
newsagent, perhaps you would consider purchasing from the Club…any copies not
sold are returned to the supplier…Cost is $5.95 a copy (same as the newsagent)
GUEST
SPEAKER – Stephanie Ryan (from the State Library)
Stephanie gave a very informative talk to Club
members on 24th June. She talked about
how to search for your ancestors through various resources and what the Library
has recently purchased.
A number of various information sheets of what is
available, have been included into our library.
They can be located in the NOT FOR LOAN section near the State Archives
Reference material - Code REF QLD STA.
These sheets are great guidelines to help in your
research.
BOOK
REVIEW
The Weekly Register, N.S.W.,
newspaper 1843 printouts. These are full of various bits of information
on politics, shipping, facts, general information, BDMs. There will be a number of volumes donated by
Jack Piper. They are NOT FOR LOAN, due
to the amount of research material contained in them. Located in NSW Section Code: REF NSW THE
HELP
NEEDED.
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’.
OTHER
RESOURCES YOU MAY NOT HAVE THOUGHT OF USING.
We subscribe to four magazines (2 x
From these journals, you can get a wealth of
information about all different topics, in their areas (names of local
cemeteries, books that available on the area, lists of their members’
interests, etc). Well worth looking
at…..because a lot of this information is not available on the Internet!!!!!
CHECK
THIS OUT!
If you haven’t been in for a while – look at some of the
resources we have –
South Australia Marriage register 1842-1916
Census of
Canadian census 1881
But wait
there is more…………………
The next 10 discs
from the LDS (Pedigree Resource Files)
have now been installed on the computers…..well worth a look, as you never know
who you are going to find in the millions of names on these discs. The index takes a while to search so please
be patient. Also there is a lot more
information available on the CDs than there is on the LDS website and it is
easier to access… so search the LDS website (www.familysearch.org) take note of the
CD number and then check out the CDs in the computer room.
125 CDs of Pedigree Resource Files – these
are not just American family trees.
There are submissions of family trees from all over the world –
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.
WEBSITES
FOR YOU TO TRY
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/apps/pictureaustralia
Pictures of
www.regiments.org/regiments/index.htm
Military website
http://www.genwed.com/UK/england.htm
English Marriage
records on line
http://www.stjamescemetery.co.uk/Database.htm
St. James’
cemetery,
http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells/Bnprindex.htm
Bingham parish,
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obitsindex/obits_england_01.htm
Obits Index –
http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/
Genealogists’
resource for interpreting causes of death.
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/units/index.htm
Weights and
measures and other handy information
http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8
Tasmanian family
links database
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Immigration into
the U.S.A