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  • The Hawkesbury Family History Group is a support and information group for family historians co-ordinated by the Hawkesbury Library Service. Meetings are held every 2nd Wednesday of the month (except January) commencing at 10am in the Tebbutt Room at Hawkesbury Central Library, Deerubbin Centre 300 George Street, Windsor.
  • Guest speakers talk on a variety of topics.
  • It is free - there are no joining or membership fees and anyone interested is welcome to attend.
  • As well as attending in person, you can attend most sessions online. Note bookings necessary only if attending online and not in person. Book via Eventbrite https://hawkesburylibrary.eventbrite.com or ph 02 4560 4460. Meetings are not recorded.
  • To find out what other activities are on offer at the Library (including family history sessions) click here

MEETING DATES 2024

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2024
14 February JASON REEVES - Focus on Ancestry – book to attend online
13 March ELIZABETH ROBERTS - The Great North Road & what life was like for the men who built it – book to attend online
10 April SUE WILLIAMS - Mary, the fascinating story of Governor Bligh's daughter – book to attend online
8 May MICHELLE NICHOLS - Connecting with our ancestors (Heritage Festival) – book to attend online
12 June ADJUNCT ASSOC PROF CAROL LISTON - Researching convict women through English records – book to attend online
10 July JONATHAN AULD - Finding the Fiaschi family Dr Thomas Fiaschi, Surgeon & winemaker (1853-1927) – book to attend online
14 August RACHEL CULLEN - Bringing National Archives of Australia (NAA) records to light – book to attend online
11 September ANDY MACQUEEN - Life & times of explorer Frenchman Francis Barrallier 1773–1853 – book to attend online
9 October LARISSA BEHRENDT - 'Storytelling traditions in Literature' – book to attend online
13 November BARBARA GOW - Walking in the footsteps of your ancestor – book to attend online
11 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party
Bookings necessary only if attending online & not in person.
Book via Eventbrite https://hawkesburylibrary.eventbrite.com or ph 02 4560 4460

MEETING DATES 2023

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2023
8 February CHRISTINE WOODLANDS Finding Ancestors with your DNA - Using DNA In Your Family History Research – book here
8 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury Cemeteries
12 April MICHELLE NICHOLS Captured: Portraits of Crime – book here
10 May RACHEL FRANKS 'An Uncommon Hangman: The life & deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard'
14 June MICHAEL EDWARDS History of Pitt Town
12 July GAY WILSON Family History & the Big Picture
9 August JAN BARKLEY JACK Women of the early Hawkesbury – book here
13 September MICHELLE NICHOLS ~ Brickwall Solutions – book here
11 October WAYNE KEDWARD ~ Follow the sources – book here
8 November GAY HENDRIKSON ~ Parramatta Female Factory riots – book here
13 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party - book here

MEETING DATES 2022

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2022
9 February MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury mishaps & murders – book here
9 March LOUISE WILSON Turning family history research into a truth-telling exercise – book here
13 April MICHELLE PATIENT The Internet Archive – book here
11 May LOUISE WILSON Turning family history research into a truth-telling exercise
8 June MICHELLE NICHOLS THE LIFE OF JOSEPH DOCKER
13 July DANIELLE LAUTREC Analysing family history sources
10 August MARTYN KILLION What’s new @ State Archives
14 September My favourite ancestor & why? + 40th Birthday celebration
12 October RICHARD GILLARD The Dynasty of Elizabeth Crouch
9 November JONATHAN AULD Preserving your Family Collections
14 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party - book here

MEETING DATES 2021

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2021
10 February JILL BALL Magick mystery: Elizabeth Phipps story - Bookings essential – book here
10 March SUE WILLIAMS Elizabeth Macarthur & Elizabeth Macquarie - Bookings essential – book here
14 April KERRY FARMER Searching for Samuel - an elusive ancestor - Bookings essential – book here
12 May MICHELLE NICHOLS A feel for the Hawkesbury - Bookings essential – book here
9 June LAURIE TURTLE A hanging in the family - Bookings essential – book here
14 July MICHELLE NICHOLS Expand your family history story - Bookings essential – book here
11 August MICHELLE NICHOLS Photographing historic - Bookings essential – book here
8 September BILL PHIPPEN NSW Railways personnel records - Bookings essential – book here
13 October HEATHER GARNSEY The Triangle of Care and the records of the Sydney Benevolent Asylum - Bookings essential – book here
10 November GRAHAME THOM Scottish Kirk session records - Bookings essential – book here
8 December Show & Tell - Bookings essential - book here

MEETING DATES 2020

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2020
12 February STEVE FORD Searching Online NSW Land Records
11 March MARION STARR The industrious ex-convict - James Gough
8 April No meeting held due to Covid-19
13 May No meeting held due to Covid-19
10 June No meeting held due to Covid-19
8 July No meeting held due to Covid-19
12 August MICHELLE NICHOLS Top 10 family history resources
9 September HEATHER GARNSEY NSW Parish registers
14 October STEPHEN GOW Gow family history book (how it was researched, written & published) - Bookings essential - book here
11 November KERRY FARMER Searching for Samuel: an elusive ancestor - Bookings essential - book here
9 December Show & Tell - Bookings essential - book here

MEETING DATES 2019

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2019
13 February JASON REEVE Everything you need to know about Ancestry
13 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury Benevolent Society - 200th anniversary
10 April JAN BARKLEY JACK Hawkesbury early European settlers - 225 years on
8 May KEITH PAINTER Researching Mr Padley
12 June JESSICA NORTH Esther - true story of the girl who became first Lady of the colony
10 July CHRIS YEATS The invisibility of women in the records
14 August DEBORAH HALLAM The history of Lochiel House, Kurrajong Heights
11 September JILL BALL Six feet under downunder - Cemetery records in Australia
9 October TBA
13 November EMILY HANNA Colonial Secretary – The Family Historian’s friend
11 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2018

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2018
14 February JONATHAN AULD Top 10 hints for Scottish Ancestry
14 March DR ALECIA SIMMONDS Courting: A history of love and law in Australia
11 April KYLIE REES Archiving our digital records
9 May SHARN WHITE Your Immigrant Ancestor’s story
13 June JOHN PARTON Familysearch: everything you need to know
11 July MICHELLE NICHOLS Notable residents of 19th century Hawkesbury
8 August TALK ON NEW EXHIBITION & VISIT TO HAWKESBURY MUSEUM (family history month)
12 September CHRISTINE FEARNON & JENNY HIGGINS Australian Dictionary of Biography and 3rd Fleet family projects
10 October ANGELA PHIPPEN ‘Ooops I wish I’d checked the original’
14 November BARBARA GOW William Gow and his descendants
12 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2017

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2017
8 February JUDITH DUNN Colonial Ladies - lovely, lively & lamentably loose
8 March KERRY FARMER DNA and family history
12 April PETER LISTER Hawkesbury Agricultural College and the Great War
10 May MICHELLE NICHOLS Why tell your story?
14 June MICHELLE NICHOLS The Great flood of 1867 – 150 years ago
12 July CATHY McHARDY Hudson Ready-Cut Homes.
9 August JILL BALL Salt lake city – the Genea-mecca (family history month)
13 September JAN BARKLEY JACK The minister of St Matthew’s Anglican Church
11 October JENNY JOYCE London online resources
8 November SUE CASTRIQUE The history of Cockatoo Island
13 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2016

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2016
10 February MICHELLE NICHOLS Discovering historical photograph collections
9 March JOHN CANN All about Court & gaol records from State Records
13 April BABETTE SMITH Penal Conditions & the making of the Australian Working Class
11 May CATHERINE BISHOP Colonial businesswomen
8 June CHRIS YEATS What you might find in your ancestors house
13 July MICHELLE NICHOLS Joseph Lycett – A man of extraordinary ingenuity
10 August HEATHER GARNSEY SAG Cemetery collection
14 September  
12 October WAYNE KEDWARD Portals to Family History
9 November CATHY McHARDY A stroll around Kurrajong village
14 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2015

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2015
11 February ALLAN MURRIN Exploring the Familysearch website
11 March KATHERINE McKENZIE Putty tales & trails
8 April MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury Home front talk
13 May NOELINE KYLE Not So Ordinary Women — Researching & Writing Women in Family History
10 June ALASDAIR McGREGOR The life of Francis Greenway and Windsor’s St. Matthew’s Church
8 July MICHELLE NICHOLS Pitfalls in family history: strategies for family history
12 August MELISSA HULBERT Restoring family photographs
9 September BABETTE SMITH Penal conditions and the making of the Australian working class
14 October JILL BALL Do the right thing 
11 November MICHELLE PATIENT Is it true? Facts, fun & fiction in family history
9 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2014

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2014
12 February LORRAINE TURTLE Beyond birth, death and marriage certificates
12 March CATHY McHARDY A stroll around Richmond
9 April GAIL DAVIS I’ve been working on the railways (State Records Railway records)
14 May MICHELLE NICHOLS Some Hawkesbury Journeys (Celebrating Heritage Festival theme and looking at journeys of some of the local inhabitants)
11 June JOY SHEPHERD St Stephens Church Kurrajong – the records and the families
9 July DR ANNE-MAREE WHITAKER William Cox and Cox's Road
13 August DR PERRY McINTYRE Single female emigration in the 1830s & 1840s : NATIONAL FAMILY HISTORY MONTH
10 September JONATHAN AULD Researching WW1 soldiers
8 October BEN MERCER Ancestry.com.au - researching family history in the digital age
12 November MICHELLE NICHOLS 150 years of Blacktown to Richmond Railway line
10 December Show & Tell plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2013

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2013
13 February ANN HOWARD Magic of Dangar Island
13 March JILL BALL The Art of Blogging
10 April JANETTE PELOSI Sentenced Beyond the Seas
8 May MICHELLE NICHOLS Community Milestones – putting your Hawkesbury ancestor into context (18 April – 18 May 2013 HERITAGE FESTIVAL)
12 June CHRISTINE YEATS Tracing ancestors in asylums
10 July GAY HENDRICKSON  The female factories & convict women
14 August DR SIOBHAN LAVELLE Crossing the Blue Mountains 1813—2013
11 September KEN BRICE Author of “David Hawkins” - Topic to be confirmed
9 October MARION MCGUIRK & JAN BARKLEY JACK Toongabbie’s Government Farm
13 November STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS Mistaken identity : the trials of Joe Windred
11 December To be advised

MEETING DATES 2012

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2012
8 February HEATHER GARNSEY SAG in the 21st century – new innovations at the Society of Australian Genealogists
14 March JUDITH DUNN Colonial Ladies, Lovely, Lively and Lamentably Loose (convict women)
11 April MICHELLE NICHOLS Innovations & Inventions focussing on the Hawkesbury ~ HERITAGE FESTIVAL
9 May JULIE & JOHN SWORD "Family: the first century" history of the Sword family
13 June CAROL LISTON Accessing Land Titles records
11 July LAURIE FORTH Life of Margaret Catchpole
8 August MICHELLE NICHOLS Family history - how things have changed? Celebrating HFHG 30th birthday
12 September VICKI ELDRIDGE Teacher and school history records
10 October JONATHAN AULD Identifying and preserving old photographs
14 November ANGELA PHIPPEN Wises Post office Directories for family and local research
12 December SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party - bring a plate to celebrate

MEETING DATES 2011

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2011
9 February RALPH HAWKINS Faces & Places - Dating Family Photographs
9 March SUZANNA VOYTAS ‘Elizabeth’ 1828 - the worst & most turbulent voyage
13 April MICHELLE NICHOLS Your amazing stories – how to ensure your story lives on (Heritage Week)
11 May ANDY MACQUEEN Frederick Robert D'Arcy: colonial surveyor, explorer and artist
8 June KAREN ROGERS Guild of One Name Studies
13 July GEOFF CANNON First Titleholders of Land in the nineteen counties of NSW
10 August CASSIE MERCER From Rebels to Bride Thieves: stories of our Early Irish Convicts
14 September MICHELLE NICHOLS Dining in the 19th century (CELEBRATING HISTORY WEEK)
12 October LOUISE WILSON ‘Story-telling: Disinterring Early Convict Settlers of the Hawkesbury’
9 November SHOW & TELL Bring along an item of interest to show. Christmas Party
14 December

NOELINE KYLE Remembering, Recording and Writing Your Family Stories (+ Christmas Party)

MEETING DATES 2010

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2010
10 February VIC KING Fleshing out your family histories
10 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Introduction to FamilySearch facilities at Hawkesbury City Library
14 April SYLVIA MURPHY Researching ancestors in the days of the Raj (British ancestors in India)
12 May Excursion to Powerhouse Museum facility, Castle Hill
9 June CATHY McHARDY Reminiscences of Richmond by Samuel Boughton
14 July MARK ST LEON History of the Circus
11 August MEGAN MARTIN Beyond Mrs Beeton's
8 September HAWKESBURY FAMILY HISTORY GROUP ‘Memories of my ancestor’ group presentations
13 October MICHELLE NICHOLS Treasures on Trove
10 November KIM PHILLIPS Spirits of Gallipoli project
8 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2009

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2009
11 February BRAD ARGENT Discover Ancestry.com.au
11 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Old Registers, Land – New research tool for NSW
8 April JEREMY PALMER English & Welsh Wills for family history
13 May CATHY MCHARDY & ARTHUR COOPER Glossodia history book by Arthur Cooper- official launch by Cathy McHardy – to be confirmed
10 June TED BRILL Tour of Ebenezer Church & Cemetery
8 July DR KEN KNIGHT Colourful Colonial Publicans
12 August ALISON SPENCER History of postcards
10 September MICHELLE NICHOLS Researching Scandals, Crime & Corruption
14 October LINDSAY ALLEN Researching occupations at State Records
11 November

JAN BARKLEY JACK About “Hawkesbury Settlement revealed” book

9 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2008

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2008
13 February DR CAROL LISTON Parramatta Orphan School
12 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Lucy Osburn Women with a Mission - Womens History Month
9 April KAREN MILLS History of the Grono family
14 May DR GRACE KARSKENS New history of early Sydney (Topic to be confirmed)
11 June

GAIL DAVIS Treasures from the State Records

9 July

CAROL BAXTER Scandal and Skulduggery in early Sydney

13 August

JOHN LOW From Inns to Villages : Glimpses of Family Life in the Blue Mountains

10 September

PAUL BRUNTON Rum Rebellion 1808

8 October

MICHELLE NICHOLS Hawkesbury : a peep at the past - from photographs

12 November

CHERYL MONGAN World War 1 records

10 December

SHOW & TELL Plus Christmas Party

MEETING DATES 2007

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2007
14 February HENRY CHAN Chinese family history research
14 March MARILYN ROWAN NSW Births, deaths & marriage certificates and the transcription service
11 April MICHELLE NICHOLS Family history : back to basics
9 May HELEN DICKINSON Hawkesbury Landholders
13 June TED BRILL History of Ebenezer Church & cemetery
11 July FIONA BURN Photographs for family & local history National Archives of Australia
8 August LAURIE FORTH Life & times of Margaret Catchpole
12 September Excursion to State Records at Western Sydney Records Centre 143 O'Connell Street, Kingswood 2747
10 October MICHELLE NICHOLS NSW Police Gazettes
14 November JEREMY PALMER UK family history sources
12 December SHOW & TELL Bring along an item of interest & end of year party

MEETING DATES 2006

January NO MEETING IN JANUARY 2006
8 February HEATHER GARNSEY NSW Government Gazettes & AGCI (Australian Genealogy Computer Index)
8 March MICHELLE NICHOLS Census records in family history research
12 April JAN HERIVEL World War 1 research : Castlereagh soldiers
10 May ROBYNNE WINLEY My Hawkesbury convict ancestors
14 June TRIVIA QUIZ???? Everyone welcome, come along & have some fun!!
12 July CATHY McHARDY Place names in the Hawkesbury district
9 August Snapshots of grandfathers & grandfathers (small 5 min presentations by members of the group)
13 September JEANETTE PELOSI Murder in the family - sources at State Records
11 October JOHN PARTRIDGE History of Gaols in NSW
8 November JONATHAN AULD Computers & family history: family history programs & creating family history webpages
13 December SHOW & TELL Bring along an item of interest & end of year party

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