Program for 2023

Venue:

Coast Centre for Seniors,
2 Curie Avenue, Little Bay, NSW
(unless otherwise listed)

Time:

1:30pm
(unless otherwise listed)

Visitors Welcome

Upcoming Events:

NSW Heritage Festival

NSW Heritage Festival

Date: Apr 10 - May 14, 2023Time: All Day EventVenue: Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

The 2023 Australian Heritage Festival theme is Shared Stories. This new theme invites event organisers to share the stories of our natural, cultural built and Indigenous heritage, and encourages the community to build connections through the contribution of their own rich and diverse stories along the way.

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date: 15 April 2023Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue: Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: David Rosenberg
Topic: "Pine Gap – Close To God’s Ear: NSA Eavesdropping Memoirs" David worked for the NSA for over twenty years, including eighteen years as an American officer at the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap. This is the first book about the NSA’s operations at a satellite ground site by an individual who held the Top Secret security clearance that allowed him to work inside Operations. His book details the intelligence collection mission at Pine Gap and the partnership between Australia and the United States that has made Pine Gap the most important satellite ground site in the Intelligence Community. David is the Technical & Creative Consultant for the Netflix and ABC television series, ‘Pine Gap’.

Beginners’ Workshop

Beginners' Workshop

Date: 29 April 2023Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pmVenue: Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

A free Beginners' Workshop for those who are starting out on their journey into their family history.

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date: 13 May 2023Time: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue: Vonnie Young Auditorium, Lionel Bowen Library

Speaker: Dr Megan Neilson
Topic: "Unravelling the family myth: A personal glimpse of Chinese-Australian history" When I set out to solve a family puzzle I never expected to fall headlong into Chinese-Australian history. The puzzle concerned my great-grandmother Matilda Jane Millar who in 1852 had arrived in Victoria from England, only 11 years old and seemingly unchaperoned. On the Ballarat goldfields Matilda Jane was later to marry my Chinese great-grandfather Chin Kit 陳吉. There was a romantic family myth about how they had met elsewhere. But the records said otherwise. The unravelling of the true story took me from University College London, to Ballarat and Bendigo in Victoria, to Launceston in Tasmania and ultimately to Guangdong in southern China.

Past Events:

Discussion Group

Discussion Group

Date 25 March 2023Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Topic: "The Corner Shop". This could include memories of days gone by of the local store where you or your ancestors shopped. Where was the it located? What did it stock? What services did it provide? Do you have photos of the shop? Bring them along with your story to be told. If you do not have anything to share, come along and listen to other members' stories. Their ideas may trigger a memory for you, which you may then wish to share. Looking forward to hearing a number of different stories!

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 11 March 2023Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Members of Cape Banks FHS
Topic: "Shared Stories"

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 11 February 2023Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Leonie Bell
Topic: "Stannumville: Suburb in the Sand" Many people are aware of the canvas and tin shacks that were erected by desperate people on the sandhills of La Perouse and Sans Souci during the throes of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Shanty towns such as these have a long history in Australia, particularly in pioneer and gold mining towns in Victoria and New South Wales during the Gold Rush. However, few will have heard of a News South Wales State Government scheme to house families in a purpose-built tent town during World War 1. Canvas Town, sometimes referred to as Calico Town or Tin Town, was later known as Stannumville and was situated south of Daceyville.

Discussion Group

Discussion Group

Date 28 January 2023Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Topic: "What the family wore and when they wore it". This could include what was worn on a special occasion, what was worn for work, a special outfit that was treasured or any other important or treasured clothing item. Do you have photos or perhaps even that special item? Bring them along with your story to be told.

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 12 November 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Jane Britten and Barbara Swebeck, Woollahra Library Local Studies Team
Topic: "Maps and Mansions"

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 10 September 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Robert Atkins
Topic: "Ryerson Index"

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 13 August 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Freda Backes, Australian Lebanese Historical Society
Topic: "Establishing the Australian Lebanese Historical Society to document early Lebanese immigration to Australia: Uncovering my family history."

Discussion Group

Discussion Group

Date 30 July 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Topic: "Family History in Numbers (and the story behind the number/s)"

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 9 July 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Chris Beazley
Topic: "The Amazing Taylors: George, Florence and Vince"

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 11 June 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Libby Hathorn
Topic: "A Life in Writing"

Bus Trip

Bus Trip

Date 19 May 2022Time 8:30 am - 3:30 pmVenue Ebenezer, NSW

Our bus trip will be visiting the Ebenezer Church, Ebenezer. There will be a talk about the church and cemetery. This will be followed by lunch at Windsor and possible visit to St Mathews Church, time permitting.

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 14 May 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Dr Lesley Potter
Topic: "Connections and Interconnections in Sydney Society in the 1830s"

Beginners’ Workshop

Beginners' Workshop

Date 30 April 2022Time 11:00 am - 1:00 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

A free Beginners' Workshop for those who are starting out on their journey into their family history.

General Meeting

General Meeting

Date 9 April 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Speaker: Christine Yeats
Topic: 'Chasing the ubiquitous "Mrs" in family research'

NSW Heritage Festival

NSW Heritage Festival

Date Apr 1 - May 31, 2022Time All Day EventVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

The 2022 Australian Heritage Festival theme is Curiosity. From the city to the regions, this theme brings heritage to life by encouraging communities to actively wonder, investigate and learn about natural, cultural, Aboriginal, living and built heritage around the nation.

Discussion Group

Discussion Group

Date 19 March 2022Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmVenue Research Rooms @ Coast Centre, Little Bay

Topic: "Getaways – where we went for holidays (and what we did)"