Program for 2018
Venue:
Time:
Vonnie Young Auditorium,
Level 1, Bowen Library,
669-673 Anzac Parade, Maroubra
(unless otherwise listed)
7:00pm
Visitors Welcome
February
Fri 9th
Speaker: Sue Martin
Topic: “Remembering Ben Chifley”
Wed 14th
Members’ Workshop: “Its Not All Online”
11.00am-1.00pm
Location: 113A Paine Street, Maroubra
Presenter: Margaret Phillips, Education Officer
March
Fri 9th
Speaker: Professor Paula Hamilton
Topic: “Remembering the Past with Oral History”
Fri Mar 9th – Mon 12th
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15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry Location: International Convention Centre (ICC) in Darling Harbour, Sydney
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April
Fri 13th
Speaker: Kim Hatherly
Topic: “The Boy from Shoreditch”
Tue Apr 18th – Sun May 20th
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National Trust Heritage Festival 2018
Theme: My Culture, My Story |
Sat 21st
Beginners’ Workshop
11.00am-1.00pm
Location: 113A Paine Street, Maroubra
Presenter: Margaret Phillips, Education Officer
Sat 21st
Open Day: 1:00pm-4:00pm
Location: 113A Paine Street, Maroubra
May
Fri 11th
Speaker: Lee Bevan and Lindsay Harden
Topic: “World War 1 – Diggers Remembered”
June
Fri 8th
Speaker: Cape Banks FHS Members’ Stories
Topic: “A Leaf From My Family Tree”
July
Fri 13th
Speaker: Chris Betteridge
Topic: “Landscapes of the Dead – the symbolic and aesthetic values of cemeteries”
August
Fri 10th
Speaker: Pauline Weeks
Topic: “Kiwis Can’t Swim – Researching Across the Ditch”
Sat 18th
Members’ Workshop: “19th Century Bounty and Assisted Immigration Workshop”
11.30am-1.00pm
Location: 113A Paine Street, Maroubra
Presenter: Margaret Phillips, Education Officer
Fri 31st
Bus Trip – Tour of Strathfield and surrounds with local historian
Time: 9:00am-3:00am
September
Fri 14th
Speaker: Peter Poland
Topic: “Beyond The Flag’s Up”
Fri 14th to Sun 16th
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NSW & ACT AFHS State Conference
Host: NSW ACT Association of Family History Societies Theme: Sailing into History Venue: Batemans Bay Soldiers Club |
October
Fri 12th
Annual General Meeting, followed by “Show and Tell” – items displayed by members.
Thu 25th
Bus Trip – State Archives and Records NSW
Time: 9:00am-3:00am
November
Fri 9th
Speaker: TBA
Topic: TBA
Wed 14th
Members’ Workshop: “Divorce”
11.00am-1.00pm
Location: 113A Paine Street, Maroubra
Presenter: Margaret Phillips, Education Officer
December
Fri 14th
Christmas Meeting