Genealogy Sunshine Coast holds a regular meeting on the second Saturday of each month at the Genealogy Sunshine Coast Resource Centre located in Petrie Park, Nambour.
Meetings commence at 9.30 am and all are welcome to come along.
Please note: The Resource Centre is closed for research during the morning meeting but opens in the afternoon at 12 noon until 4.00pm each Saturday.
DOWNLOAD A CALENDAR WITH ALL THE ACTIVITIES FOR EACH MONTH.
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| 14 January 2012 | | Show and Tell | | 01/12 | | | 11 February 2012 | Richard Philp | Adoption - his journey to finding 'live' relatives, which is very different to tracing 'dead' relatives | | 02/12 | | | 10 March 2012 | Jo Joyce | Now and Then " | “Now and Then is a history / photography project using the popular technique of holding a historical image in its present day location and rephotographing it. It's a fun technique and a great way to re-imagine old photos and shine a new light on the places you know.” | 03/12 | http://open.abc.net.au/projects/now-and-then-series-2-44un7gn/#/about | | 14 April 2012 | Libby Urbahn | “Fighting Spirit” Researching your family’s military past | Born in the UK, I have lived most of my life in Australia and New Zealand. I am a trained teacher and have spent most of my working life in education, health promotion and strategic planning working for an Area health Board, a Division of General Practice, a large teaching hospital in Queensland and an Independent General Practitioners Association. I have always been interested in writing but it wasn’t until 1994 that I started writing seriously, the result being my first book Eye of the Camel – an historical fiction based on a segment of my father’s life in Palestine prior to the creation of Israel. My second book, a novel on workplace bullying (Black Balloon – Surviving a workplace bully) was released in July 2008 by Brolga Publishing of Melbourne. I am currently writing my third novel, Tabariya, a sequel to Eye of the Camel. | 04/12 | http://www.elizabethurbahn.com/books.html | | 12 May 2012 | Marilyn Kelly | Researching my mother's Irish family history | Author of "A century of promise" - I am a retired Nurse. Apparently, I put on my mother's nursing cape when I was three years old, and that, it appears was that. My fate was sealed, and 37 years later I retired from nursing, only to be asked by my mother, “Now that you have retired, will you write down the family stories so that they don't get lost?” It must have been more than that question though, that set me off on a journey of discovery about my ancestors, because I have found notes that I made when I was fifteen years old recording family tree data from my grandmother, Tessie Moloney/Bright, My grandmother was born in 1884, and lived till just a few months from her 100th birthday, so she was very much in my life for almost 34 years. Six years of research and writing, and one very large book later, I had complied with my mother's wishes and produced my first family history book for her 80th birthday. The process has been an exhilarating, frustrating and very social one as I have travelled around the eastern states of Australia meeting extended family and collecting stories and photos. I fear it has become a life long enterprise, because there is always another mystery, another relative, an unknown photo, an off the cuff comment, that sets me off on my quest yet again. | 05/12 | | | 9 June 2012 | Bill Kitson | Queensland Surveying Museum | Bill has had a long working life starting in 1966 with Indentures with a numbers of businesses including the Mains Road Department and finishing in 1997 as the Senior Curator, Lands, Mapping and Surveying Museum in Brisbane. Bill has worked with Queensland Government’s departments including: Public Lands and Local Government before moving into the area of Museum and Historical Services. His highlights through his working life: (1) Reconnaissance surveys for trigonometrical network design (2) Investigation surveys as to the state of the original marks remaining on all Queensland’s State borders (3) 1985 Leader of Centenary trek to Haddon Corner (4) Involvement in the organisation of the Sesqui-Centenary celebrations of the arrival of the first three surveyors in Qld in 1939 (5) Instrumental in the dedication of the James Warner Park at Kangaroo Point (6) Contributed to the publication, “In the Steps of Our Forefathers”, 1988 (7) Author of “Redefining the Queensland New south Wales Border: guidelines for Surveyors” 2001 (8) Co-author of “Surveying Queensland 1839 - 1945 A Pictorial History”, 2006 (9) Over 2000 presentations to community groups (10) Numerous media appearances including featuring in a 1 hour documentary “Borderline” which was screened on Channel 7’s World Around Us program. Bill was a member and councillor of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland. Currently, he is a member of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland | 06/12 | http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/museum/index.html | | 14 July 2012 | Paul Seto | Researching the 1896 sinking of a passenger ferry in the Brisbane River | Author of " The sinking of the Pearl" | 07/12 | http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/02/06/digging-up-family-history-research-branches-out/ | | 11 August 2012 | | Annual General Meeting | | 08/12 | | | 8 September 2012 | Dr Rod Cardell | As a young boy during WWII, he lived in Townsville within the American Air Force Base | Author of "Wings Around Us" | 09/12 | http://www.ozatwar.com/wings.htm | | 13 October 2012 | Carol Azzopardi | Researching the Bertwistle family | | 10/12 | | | 10 November 2012 | TBA | | | 11/12 | | | 8 December 2012 | | | | 12/12 | |
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