November 2008
CABOOLTURE FAMILY
HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
NEWSLETTER
Phone - 5428 2018
EMail - cfhrg@yahoo.com.au
Website - http://cfhrg.tripod.com
Welcome to our new
Member – Jack Wagglen
The Club will be
closed for research by members on
Saturday 22nd November 2008 for History
Our Club Members are welcome to
attend this meeting, which will also include guest speakers and lunch. Cost will be $15.00 each.
Next Meeting –
Saturday 13th December 2008
(followed
by a Christmas afternoon tea. Come along
and talk with your fellow club members, while enjoying afternoon tea. Please bring a small plate of goodies…hope to
see you there. The Christmas Raffles
will also be drawn at this time. There
will be lots of prizes. Tickets are
available from the office for $1.00 each.)
President’s Report
At the
General Meeting held on 11 October 2008, the Special Resolution was passed
unanimously to amend the Association’s Constitution and to accept Model Rules
(version 6). Also “Honorary Life Member” as passed as a new Class of
Membership. The application to amend the Association’s Rules has been sent to
the Office of Fair Trading.
The working
bee on 18th and 19th October was a huge success. The Computer Room has new
vinyl flooring, a fresh coat of paint, new benches and wall shelving. The
Meeting Room walls were repainted and the display screens were recovered. A big thank you to those who gave up their weekend and put in so
much effort to improve the association’s facilities.
Unfortunately
the Association’s rooms were broken into on the night of 16 October 2008. This
resulted in the Club Rooms being closed for a few days, while the police
carried out their investigations. The Association apologizes for any
inconvenience this may have caused. Most of the damage was to the doors and
office filing cabinet. It appears only a small sum of money, some chocolates
and soft drinks were taken. The Moreton Bay Regional Council has generously
replaced the damaged doors and repainted them.
Gary Nugent (President)
http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show
Search the
records of war memorials commemorating all wars located throughout the
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
http://www.awm.gov.au/diaries/seasia/index/index.asp
Vietnam War
– Commanders War Diaries have been scanned and are now available.
www.monaropioneers.com/index.html
This is a
good site for anyone who has interests or pioneer families in the Cooma/Monaro
district of NSW.
www.rba.gov.au/calculator/calc.go
This site
helps you find out how prices have changed in this country. You can ask to be given a modern day
equivalent for a sum of money from 1901 to 2005.
http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Series\1272
This is a
link to the 1828 Census of NSW. An alphabetical listing for the 1828
http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Series\1282
This is a link to the 1841 Census of NSW. This census lists the names of heads of
households ONLY, with the number of males and females in the household divided
into age group, marital status, whether free or convict, religion and
occupation.
State
Records NSW has an index to names in the 1841 census at -
http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/1841_census_1068.asp