Syllabus for General Meetings – 2023 & 2024

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Time: 7.30 p.m. – 4th Wednesday in month [except Public Holidays when it is on 3rd or 5th Wednesday in the month].

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Date

Speaker

Subject

2023

25th Jan

Susie ZADA

Researching Land in Victoria, Part 2 – OLD Title

22nd Feb

Colin MOCKETT

Another part of local history

22nd Mar

Anonymous Presenter

Family History for Starters, “Do Overs” and Brick Walls – Part 1

26th Apr

GFHG Research Officers and others

Your chance to ask for Research advice – prepare your questions – a full session of Research Q & A – not restricted to Geelong region.  No guarantees that we can answer them all, but with the combined efforts of everyone we’ll have a really good crack.

Questions can be sent in advance to geelongfhg@gmail.com clearly titled GFHG April Meeting question

24th May

Chris GANLY

The racecourses of Geelong region

28th Jun

Louise COAKLEY

The Challenges of a John Doe Case in QLD.

26th Jul

Anonymous Presenter

Family History for Starters, “Do Overs” and Brick Walls – Part 2

23rd Aug

Patrick FERRY

GFHG AGM plus speaker – Finding Geelong in the National Archives of Australia

27th Sep

John GRAHAM

The Ryerson Index – one of the best free sites for finding deaths and funerals in Australia

25th Oct

Maureen TROTTER

AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Family History.

22nd Nov

Members’ Christmas night

Short presentations from members PLUS “Ask a question – where to find something” – prepare details on what you are asking for / about.

John STEWART: Which James was my 3 x G-Grandfather?

John GRAHAM: My favourite document.

Susie ZADA: Brick Walls – 2 of them in (sort-of) the “Same” family.

27th Dec

No meeting

 

 

Date

Speaker

Subject

2024

24th Jan

Susie ZADA

Researching Land in Victoria, Part 3 – Land Selections

28th Feb

Colin MOCKETT

Even more local history

27th Mar

Carmen QUICK Welfare records for Family History (State Library of Victoria)

24th Apr

TBA

TBA

22nd May

TBA

TBA

26th Jun

TBA

TBA

24th Jul

TBA

TBA

28th Aug

TBA

GFHG AGM plus speaker – TBA

25th Sep

TBA

TBA

23rd Oct

TBA

TBA

27th Nov

Members’ Christmas night

Short presentations from members.

25th Dec

No meeting