NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone
No - 5428 2018
Email
- cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
Welcome to our new Members – Jessica Maguire, Margaret McEwan and Helen
Livingstone
DATES TO
REMEMBER
Christmas Afternoon Tea
(please bring a plate) after the meeting on Saturday 9th
December…all welcome.
The Club will be closed from:
Next meeting is
25th November - The Official Opening of the new building at the State Library, South Bank,
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
The
end of the year is rapidly approaching again. It seems that each year gets
shorter than the preceding year.
As
a result of reduced numbers attending the club premises, you will receive a
questionnaire, which is aimed at determining those hours that best suit the
majority of members. Would you all give
some thought to the problem and return the questionnaire.
Wednesdays
appear to be well attended. Mondays and Fridays have a small but regular
attendance and may need revision whilst Saturdays will remain unchanged. The
numbers attending the premises have improved marginally of late. We have some new members who seem to be
enjoying the atmosphere at the club as well as their research.
Thanks
go to those members who have volunteered their time to learn the ropes with
respect to the duty roster. This is most
welcome.
Is
there something that your committee can do to make the club more attractive? If
so let one of your committee know. If
you are shy, please make use of the suggestion box as all suggestions will be
addressed and the results notified. No
names will be mentioned in any subsequent action so do not be afraid to mention
your concerns. If they are not mentioned
then they cannot be addressed.
Happy
researching,
David
Don’t
forget the Help Wanted Section in the Hindsight…..Your name/details will
not be printed in the magazine, your question will be allocated a number and a
listing kept in the office, of who submitted which question. Any replies will be via CFHRG email address
or PO Box. Your questions can be left at
the office or can be emailed to me at nitemare1948@yahoo.com.au
or cfhrg@yahoo.com.au …thank you, Elaine
(Our magazine now goes to the Nundah & District Hist. Society and Logan
District Soc.)
Also next year (and it is not that far away), we
would like to send a copy of Members Interests to the genealogy Clubs
that we exchange journals with, when we send their Hindsight to them. If each member could submit a maximum of 10
names, in the following (or similar) format, we will get this underway….thank
you
NAME/SURNAME…..DATE/TIME PERIOD…..TOWN
/DISTRICT…..COUNTY/STATE …..COUNTRY and any other relevant information that
you may think is necessary. (Your
lists can be left at the office.)
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’.
Thank you to everyone who has volunteered to help out
with library duty on a regular basis or on a ‘needs be’ basis.
Thank you to Joy
Bailey for taking on the position of Publicity Officer. She has been successful in
getting notices for our Club put in the Community Notices Sections of the local
papers.
PLEASE NOTE: THE CLUB EMAIL ADDRESS
IS NOW cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
(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 Australia and the World in general)
Christmas is getting
closer!!!
Donations for the Christmas Raffle can now
be left in the library.
…thank you for your support in this major fund raiser…
Christmas Hamper Raffle – tickets available -
$1.00 each.
There will be lots of prizes…prizes will be
drawn at the Christmas afternoon tea on
Guess how many lollies in the jar – 3 guesses for a $1.00. Have a
bit of fun…try and guess how many lollies there are…winner to be announced at
the Christmas afternoon tea…good luck!
There are still a few numbers left in the SILVER
CIRCLE…cost is $10 and the competition will be run over 10 weeks….ask at the
office
The Hall Stand (made
and donated by Jack Piper) was won by Coral Hapgood. The collectable plates (donated by
Carmen Aebersold) were won by Mavis Chiverton.
The Monthly Raffle
– 1st prize (Ladies watch) was won by Kay Brady and 2nd
prize (Firemen’s calendar) was won by Susan Castle.
Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets in
these raffles.
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
Scribblers – NOW
available in 3 sizes - 50c, 75c or $1.00 each
Laminating
– This can be done at the office – Cost is $1 an A4 sheet.
GUEST SPEAKER – Jeff Elms
Jeff gave a talk
on how to use the family tree programme, Brothers Keeper, to its best
advantage. Quite a few club members use
this programme and some of them came along to find out more about the
programme. There were lots of questions
about just what you can do with Brothers Keeper. Jeff had a few print outs of charts, etc that
can be done with the programme.
HINDSIGHT – Stories for the Hindsight can be submitted at any time for
publication in upcoming issues of the magazine.
The magazine is sent to approx. 45 other Genealogy Clubs throughout
Also
don’t forget our birthday page in
the Hindsight. Thank you to everyone who
has submitted their photos for the December Issue…..photos for the March issue
(for birthdays in March, April & May) can be submitted now.
BOOKS
FOR
Australian
Family Tree Connections magazine – this is available from the office …Cost
is $5.95 a copy (same as the newsagent)
You will have received
or will receive in the next few days, a Special Newsletter. In it you will find a survey form, re
opening hours at the Club. Please fill
this form out and return to the office so that an informed decision can be made
about the opening hours. There is also a
MISSING
BOOKS
Books are still
missing from the Library (stocktake has been completed). Don’t forget when you borrow a book; there
must be a card in the back of the book for you to fill out (name and date
borrowed). The card is to be left on the
desk of the office or given to the person on duty. IF there is NO card, the book is not
to be borrowed and must not leave the premises.
OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE
CABOOLTURE STATE HIGH SCHOOL ARCHIVES ROOM
As a representative of the Club I attended the
official opening of the Archives Room.
Rhona Collinson and Dianna Mellino (both members of CFHRG) are to be
congratulated on the wonderful job they have done. The room was a dingy little store room when
they ‘acquired’ it and now, to see all the School memorabilia and especially
all the class photos and the trophies won over the years, being preserved for
future generations, it is something for the school (and Rhona and Dianna) to be
extremely proud of……Elaine
P.S...The afternoon tea was great too!
BOOK REVIEWS (by the
Librarian)
School
Days – a history in photographs 1850’s to the present day,
Children
in Queen’s Orphanage,
NEW CDs – More cemetery
CDs have arrived during the month. These
records pertain mainly to around the Bega area in NSW. They are very easy to search and have
photographs of each grave in the cemetery.
NEW BOOKS –
Cessnock Pioneer
Register
Lochinvar – a history
of the township and local district
Bellbird Mine Disaster
Hawkesbury River
District Cemeteries
Websites for you to try –
http://www.walkabout.com.au/theage/AtoZ/A.shtml
Australian travel guide to towns in
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Having trouble with items written in
a foreign language. Try this text
translator….Chinese, French, German, etc. Very handy
http://www.oldhousebooks.co.uk/baedekers1890.html
Baedeker's
http://fmpro.uow.edu.au/FirstFleet/advanced.htm
First Fleet answers
http://www.sofn.com/norwegianculture/languagelessons/Lesson09.html
Norwegian Genealogy
Terms:
Don’t forget to check back often on
the LDS website
www.familysearch.org as they are
continually adding new information
Brisbane City Council Cemetery
website – searchable –
http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au and
click on “CHECK CEMETERY RECORDS” in the ‘green shortcut box’.
Don’t
forget - entries for the GRD need to be submitted by