NEWSLETTER
CABOOLTURE FAMILY HISTORY
RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428 2018
Email - cfhrg@mail.cth.com.au
Welcome
to our new Members – Howard
Hodgson, Stuart & Beverley Davis, and Lyn Smith
DATES TO
REMEMBER
Guest Speakers –
Saturday 25th February (
Saturday 25th March (
(All members are welcome to attend, and may bring one
guest)
Next meeting is Saturday
11th March at
CENSUS
Yes it is census year again
for
PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
It’s incredible
to believe, but a month and a half of the year has gone by already. I hope that you had a great festive season
and are now ready to tackle the family research again.
The office is
progressing steadily, although apparently not rapidly enough for some. The unfortunate aspect of reliance upon
volunteer labour and the acquisition of suitable furnishings is that it does
tend to dictate the pace.
I hope that this
year will proceed as fluently as has the past year. The club has presented some incredible
functions and fundraisers in that period.
This has been due to the efforts of the members of my committee. I encourage all members to support your club
through the fundraising enterprises as this enables the acquisition of new
research materials.
If anyone has
some time to spare, please consider being a volunteer in the office. This is not a complex task and can be most
enjoyable. Give it some thought, as all
are welcome.
Do not forget
that the Anniversary Hindsight is available and that if you require extra
copies, see the rostered duty person.
There are also anniversary mugs available.
Happy
researching,
David
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
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 &1st, 3rd & 4th
Saturday 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’.
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.
We now exchange magazines with the Genealogical
Society Gladstone District Inc - check out the magazines from other clubs;
there are some very interesting articles in them.
RAFFLE
INFORMATION
The Monthly raffles have now started. Tickets are $1.00 each and the prizes will be
drawn at the March meeting.
Don’t forget when you buy your raffle ticket/tickets
you can nominate your preferred item for purchase.
1st prize has
been donated by the Good Guys – it is a backpack with picnic set, rug, etc.
2nd prize is a
horse key rack donated by Janet
3rd prize is a
small teddy bear and an Anniversary mug.
List of items up for selection is –
1.
2.
3. TAS………….
4. N.S.W. Manly
Cemetery 1845-1993 CD ($39.95)
5. Hamburg
Shipping 1879 microfiche ($9.10)
The most popular item on the “Raffle List” was the
Convict Death Index. On checking with
the author of this CD, it has been discovered that this Index forms part of The
Port Jackson Anthology CD, which is already in our library - check it out.
EASTER RAFFLE – Donations of Easter type products would
be greatly appreciated for this Fundraiser - donations can be left in the
library - to be drawn on 8th April.
Thank you for your support in our fundraising
efforts...with your continued support, the Club will acquire many more
resources to help you in your quest.
Don’t forget if you ‘find’ a resource that would be a welcome addition
to our library, please let office staff know.
No. 2
RECIPE BOOK
Don’t forget to
get your recipes in for the new book/books.
There is no limit to how many recipes you can submit, but once the book
is full, it is full. We have to limit
the number of pages to approx. 80 or it becomes unmanageable for us to produce. Leftover recipes will be kept for the ‘next
one’. The book will be ready for sale
mid November, all going well. In time
for Christmas. Thank you to all who
purchased our first recipe book. Over
125 have been sold at last count!
COFFEE MUGS – Our 25th Anniversary Coffee Mugs are for
sale. $8.00 each and all money raised
goes to the Club. They are available in
blue, green and brown.
HINDSIGHT – More stories are required for upcoming
issues of our magazine. The magazine is
sent to many other Genealogy Clubs throughout
EXTRA COPIES OF THE 25th ANNIVERSARY
HINDSIGHT ARE AVAILABLE FOR $10 A COPY.
Laminating - $1.00 per A4 sheet (see
office staff)
(Some of
the) New Additions to our library resources
(There are too many to list all of the new
additions!!)
New additions this month are mainly shipping
information, most of which has been donated by Jack Piper.
Irish Convicts to
NSW 1791-1831 (20 volumes)
(This consists of
passenger lists, etc)
Donegal Relief
Fund (Ships to
Passenger Lists
to
Bounty
Immigration Scheme – passenger lists, etc. 1837-1853
Highland &
Ireland Immigration Society of Scotland (passenger lists)
Woman’s Weekly
20th Century in pictures – donated by Janet O’Flaherty
Don’t forget to check out the Courier Mail Obituaries – 2005.
These have photos
of the deceased person, along with a story that gives quite a lot of
information about the person - well worth looking at.
STATE ARCHIVES
BDM news – As from
The State Archives are now open on the 2nd Saturday
of each month.
BOOK
REVIEWS by Joanne Beeston (Librarian)
And it was not easy! By G. Stack (donated by D. Jimmieson).
About George Stack and his life style of
wandering through
Memerambi Moments, the History and
School of Memerambi and Corndale Districts by Dr. J. Grimes (donated by J. O’Brien).
Has a lot of families with photos and covers
the dates from 1905-2005 for Memerambi and 1912-1959 for Corndale. A great reference book. Found in the Qld Section, Ref Code REF QLD
MEM
Destination Mundubbera, a factual
biography containing family profiles of Mundubbera identities to 1951 by Shire of Mundubbera (donated by J.
O’Brien).
This book is very
well done with family history and photos.
A very good reference book for those who have relatives from that
area. Found in the Qld Section, Ref Code
REF QLD DEST
Thank you to Helen for her assistance with the
printing of the extra copies of the 25th Anniversary Hindsight and the Recipe
Book….and also to Jane for her continued assistance with the books (stitching
and binding and of course, the silver covers)
Internet Addresses for you to try
http://www.edge.asic.gov.au/unclaimed/simplequery.html
Search for
unclaimed monies
http://rmhh.co.uk/gencalc.html
Genealogy
calculator – calculates from 1583 to present
http://harrogatepeopleandplaces.info
Harrogate People and Places - Massive collection of family personal notices
extracted from the
http://www.londonburials.co.uk
The London Burial Grounds - Complete list of all burial grounds, past and
present, in
Immigration
Stories: Passenger & Shipping Lists
http://shippinglists.museum.vic.gov.au/
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
This is a great site, with lots of information about Victorian London. From
descriptions of people and places to clothing and fashions, you can find out
lots and lots about the way your ancestors lived on this site. This is the
place to go if your ancestors came from
http://www.rootsweb.com/~auschs/page5.html
Gives listing and
photo of headstone if available
http://www.missing-ancestors.com/
A valuable source of information on Industrial/Reformatory Schools and the like
in
http://www.burdekin.qld.gov.au/services/registers/viewBurialRegister.asp
Good searchable
index with quite a lot of info – Burdekin Shire