NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@mail.cth.com.au
Welcome
to our new Members – Michelle Smith, Christine Howie,
Joan Hood, Gail Dugan, Pauline Blaxland & Barbara Gibson
DATES
TO REMEMBER
24th September – Talk by
Lisa Jones from the
22nd October – Talk by
Peter Ludlow on
26th November – 25th
Anniversary Celebrations (more info to come)
As from Friday 5th August,
the club will be open on Fridays (for a trial period) from
Next Meeting is at
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
PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
OFFICE
UPDATE:
The asbestos has been
removed. The plumber is on holidays at
the moment, so this is delaying the plumbing work. Purchase of building
materials is in hand.
25th
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION UPDATE:
The venue has been booked
and the invitations to the dinner are ready to be collected, if you are coming
in, otherwise, they will be mailed out within the next week or two.
The menu is for nibblies, roasted meats, with roast vegetables and
dessert. Cost is $15 per head, to be
paid when R.S.V.P.ing.
Many thanks to Danny
O’Brien who is making and donating Anniversary Coffee Mugs - a very generous
offer. Also thanks to all other members
involved with our fundraising ventures.
The By-Laws have been
updated and are available for perusal.
Code of Conduct for the CFHRG Inc. has been prepared and is on display.
Happy researching
David
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
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
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’.
25th
ANNIVERSARY HINDSIGHT DEADLINE – Please get your stories in for the bumper
celebration issue of the Hindsight, by 1st November as well.
Recipe books at $5 each are
still for sale…we are now on our 3rd reprint!!
There are a few small ($5
each) and middle ($10 each) size Anniversary Bears left for sale.
Thank you to everyone who
has supported our 25th Anniversary fundraising efforts.
RAFFLE
INFORMATION
In case you were wondering
about the raffles, most of the prizes have been donated by Members of the Club,
this means that all monies raised by the raffles, be
it $60 or $90, can then be spent on extra resources for the Club, for
everyone’s benefit. Money from the
purchased of donated items (coffee table, tissue boxes, cards, books, etc) is
also used to buy resources….thank you for your continued support in this
endeavour.
List of some of the items
purchased over the last few months, with money raised by the monthly raffles,
and from donations.
Orange & district
cemetery CD; Roman Catholic Parish registers Sth East
Qld. (births, deaths and marriages) approx. 200 fiche; Tenterfield cemetery
book; Colac & dist. pioneer register Vol.1& 2 (2 books); Queenborough cemetery, Tasmania (fiche); West Terrace
cemetery, Adelaide S.A. (fiche);
August
Raffle – winners are
1st prize – Eugene Murphy
2nd prize – Sally Faulkner
3rd prize – Betty Snell
Tickets ($1.00 each) are
continually on sale for monthly raffles….you’ve got to be in it, to win it…..If
you look in the library, you will see that over the last 6 months or so, that
the raffles have been run, an enormous amount of resources has been purchased
with the proceeds of the raffles.
The September Monthly
Raffle is a beauty – 1st prize is the shaving mirror with drawer, hand made and
donated by Jack Piper. Tickets are $1.00
each….there are 2nd and 3rd prizes as well….
Scribble
Pads
for sale – 50c each – very handy for all those notes
PLEASE
REMEMBER our 25th Anniversary Hindsight – get your stories in as soon
as possible…..let’s make this a really special edition of our magazine….thank
you to the members who have already submitted their stories and photos….email
me at nitemare1948@yahoo.com.au
IF
YOU HAD RECIPES FOR THE RECIPE BOOK
THAT YOU DIDN’T GET AROUND TO SUBMITTING BEFORE THE BOOK WAS ‘FULL’,
PLEASE STILL SUBMIT THE RECIPES, AS WE MAY PERHAPS DO ANOTHER ONE AT A LATER
DATE …THANK YOU
MEMBERS
INTERESTS/WEBSITE
Could all members who wish to
have their surname interests listed on our website please send the details to
me at cfhrg@yahoo.com.au Please be assured that you will not be
contacted directly from the website - when someone wishes to contact you I will
pass on their details to you for you to make contact with them if you
wish……..Thank you all, Chris Ryder…Assistant Librarian/Webpage Co-ordinator
WINNER
OF THE RAFFLE YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU HAD A TICKET FOR –
We were given a $15 voucher
from Get Crafty. Everyone who had signed
in at the Club from 17th July to 17th August, received an entry in the prize
draw…..Jeanette Raymont was the lucky winner.
GROUP
SHEET BOOKLETS……For
We have produced a number
of these booklets, as a fund raiser, to help you ‘keep track of your families’
while doing your family tree research……Available from the Office
(Some
of the) New Additions to our library resources (there are too many to list all of the new
additions!!)
New
Journals
The
Inverell, N.S.W.
New
CDs
Tas – Southern
New
microfiche
Tas –
N.Z. – Persons naturalised
to 1948
Books
Log of Logs Vol.1 – donated
by G. Gordon
Brisbane Ships arriving
1862-1901 Peel Is. Quarantine ships
Mangroves to Moorings
revisited,
Kilcoy Dist. Pioneers
1900-1920 Vol.2
GUEST
SPEAKER FOR AUGUST (by Joanne Beeston)
The guest speaker this
month was Bruce Jarvie from Traditional Funerals of
Morayfield. He explained the death
registration form and the Privacy Act, as to what information you can obtain
from Funeral Directors of Queensland, as other States do differ.
Also how most Funeral
Directors these days, try and do their best in making the deceased wishes come
true. Bruce talked about the cemeteries
in our area, the new ones that are on the drawing board and the ones that are
Heritage Listed now. Overall, a very
interesting afternoon.
BOOK
REVIEWS by Joanne Beeston (Librarian)
Newcastle
– its first 20 years, the Irish rebellion and the settlement of Newcastle,
N.S.W. 1804 narrated by J. Delaney – donated by J. Piper. A fascinating book about the Irish Convicts
and settlers for Newcastle area, full of great research material and a lot of
family names. Great for members with
family in this area. Found in NSW
Section Code: REF NSW NEWE
An interesting book is “Boorabee-Bribie’s
Koala Heritage” by W. Outram – donated by H.
Eaton. It tells about how the Koala
became extinct on Bribie Island by the 1960s. Interesting reading, it has quite a few old
photos of the area, and its people, along with a map and its history. Great for members who had family from this
area. Found in QLD Section Code: REF QLD
BOO
If you want any information from the 1891 Leicestershire census Index – email Joyce at joymar@bigpond.com
PHONE
BOOKS
– it was asked at a previous meeting, if anyone had suggestions as to what
could be done with the huge stack of telephone books that are at presently
stored in the kitchen area, taking up valuable space which could be used for
more important items. There has been no
response! So, if you want any of these telephone books, please come and get
them this week, because any left on the shelves, next week, will be recycled.
Internet
Addresses for you to try
If you discover an
interesting genealogy website while you are surfing the net, please email the
web address to me for inclusion in an upcoming newsletter….thank you, Elaine nitemare1948@yahoo.com.au
The webpage addresses given
below have not been checked to see if they are still available….I do not have
the time to check them all.
Background info, maps, etc.
English – enter surname and
town (i.e.
www.bradford.gov.uk/council/planning/heritage/cons_list.asp
Historical and
heritage material on areas in and around
Parish Registers Online - Derryloran Parish Registers.
Port Fairy District Births,
Deaths & Marriage Index 1880
http://www.genseek.net/port80a.htm
Port Fairy District Births, Deaths & Marriage Index 1883
http://www.genseek.net/port83a.htm
Port Fairy District Births, Deaths & Marriage Index 1900
http://www.genseek.net/p1900a.htm
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