9th December,
2006
NEWSLETTER
of
the
CABOOLTURE
FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP INC.
Phone No - 5428
2018
eMail - cfhrg@yahoo.com.au Website - http://cfhrg.tripod.com
Welcome to
our new Members
– Lynette Wells and Jackie & Vince Wright
The Club will be
closed from: 3 pm Wednesday
20th December until 9am Wednesday 3rd January
2007
Next
meeting is Saturday, 10th February 2007 at 1 pm
Thank you to everyone who donated items for the
Christmas raffle. Approx. 60
prizes…must be a record.
Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets in the
Christmas raffle.
This is one of our most important fund raisers for
the year. Good luck in the prize
draw.
Thank you also to members who supported our
PRESIDENT’S
REPORT
Well, Christmas is almost
upon us. On behalf of your
committee and myself I would like to wish each member and their family a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year and
may it be everything that you wish.
For those who are
traveling, drive safely as we would like to have you all back here next
year.
David
President
Vice President
Secretary
(David
Jimmieson)
(Elaine Elms)
Janet O’Flaherty
Treasurer
Librarian
(Helen
Eaton)
(Joanne Beeston)
PATRON:
Greg Chippendale
RYERSON INDEX – As a follow up to the article in the latest
Hindsight, information was received from the Hervey Bay Family History Assoc. Inc. as
follows –
“Other Family History groups are adding to
the index. Our Association decided
to “adopt” our own “Fraser Coast Chronicle” and be the (Chronicle Death and
Funeral) indexers for the Ryerson Index.
We have the current ones on and are working back from the films to add as
time and volunteers permit.”
Check it out - http://www.rootsweb.com/~nswsdps/dpsindx1.htm
Don’t forget our
birthday page in
the Hindsight. If your birthday is
in March, April or May, PLEASE submit your baby/toddler photo for
inclusion in the March issue…thank you
Australian Family Tree
Connections magazine – this is
available from the office …Cost is $5.95 a copy (same as the
newsagent
GENEALOGY
NEWS -
The
British government is developing a timetable for the introduction of closure on
recent records, which will prevent many genealogists from obtaining BDM
certificates they may need. Birth
records will be closed for 75 years, marriages for 50 years and deaths for 25
years, which currently means that access to births after 1931, marriages after
1956 and deaths after 1981 will not be available. If you require any of these records, you
are advised to get them now!
Websites
for you to try –
Internet Surname
Database is a free system created to help you learn more about your family name,
and then share what you discover with others. Currently this site consists of a
database of approximately 50,000 surname origin researches.
http://www.searchwhateveraustralia.com.au/
Australian search
engine and directory.
http://www.genealogysearch.org/topsites/topsites.html
The top 100 genealogy
sites
http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/
Genealogy free
stuff
http://www.ukancestor.co.uk/index.php?m=home
This is a free,
non-commercial website for Family and Local History within the
http://www.genealogy-index.co.nz/index.html
A BDM or BMD index of
the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper notices for births (registration
required), deaths, marriages, anniversaries, and in memoriam published daily
since 1999, for the purposes of genealogy and family research. Includes some school
magazines & shipping.
Can’t find the website you looked at
a few years back? – try http://web.archive.org/ for locating vanishing websites