MEETING DATES 2014

Meeting held 2nd Wednesday of the month at 10am in the Tebbutt Room, Windsor Library

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EVENTS

FLOOD DISPLAY

Make sure you get along and check out the exhibition FLOOD! At the Hawkesbury Regional Museum 8 Baker Street. Looks at the significance of floods to the Hawkesbury and how it has shaped our communities.

FAMILY HISTORY CLASS

Beginning your family history – a free class will be held on Tuesday 17 February 2015 starting at 6.30pm at Hawkesbury Library. Phone 4560-4460 to book.

EVERINGHAM FAMILY REUNION

Bi-centenary of the baptism of John Everingham on 21 May 1815 at Windsor will be held on Sunday 15 March 2015 at a venue to be announced.

WHAT’S ON

What's On at Library, Museum and Gallery for December 2014 - February 2015 now available. Printed copies in the Library or check it online
www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/65985/LMG-What_s-On-Dec-14-Feb-15.pdf

NEW MATERIAL

Some new items available in the Local Studies collection over the last month:

• Merinos, myths and Macarthurs: Australian graziers and their sheep, 1788-1900 / Garran & White
  Shelved at RL338.176368 GAR
• The poems of Charles Harpur in manuscript in the Mitchell Library and in publication in the nineteenth century Elizabeth Holt and Elizabeth Perkin
  Shelved at RL A821.1 HAR

SURFING THE INTERNET...SITES FOR FAMILY HISTORIANS

Members with internet access should check out the following interesting sites. The Library has free access to the internet, contact 4560 4460 for bookings at Windsor & 4578 2002 for Richmond bookings. If you have your own laptop we also have free wireless. The password is available from the Information Desk.

• Discovering our Anzacs
  http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/
• Passenger Arrivals Lists 1897–1963
  Material from the National Archives of Australia website on Ancestry (which is FREE to use in the Library)
  http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/family-history/passenger-arrivals-list/
• State Records Office Western Australia
  http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/
• Royal Australian Historical Society
  www.rahs.org.au
• Colonial Tasmanian Family Links database
  http://portal.archives.tas.gov.au/menu.aspx?search=8
• Blue Mtns Family History Society
  http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nswbmfhs/activities.htm
• Manly (NSW) families blog
  http://manlyfamilies.blogspot.com.au/

~ Let us know of sites, that you have tried with (or without) success ~