On Friday 6th December, committee members Linda Barnes, Sharon Scherrer and Colleen Braithwaite attended the council presentations of funding under the SPARC program. It was wonderful to receive $1500 from Dubbo Regional Council under this program towards the publication of our updated, expanded and revised “Early Pioneers of Dubbo – pre 1882”. The award was presented by mayor Josh Black at the Cultural Centre. This new publication can be purchased for $55 from the society rooms, or by ordering on line.
Dubbo & District Family History Soc. Inc. will close for the Christmas break at 1pm Saturday 7th December, 2024, (opening hours 10am to 1pm on a Saturday) reopening Tuesday 14th January 2025 at 1pm. We look forward to seeing everyone in 2025 either researching in our rooms, attending an information sessions or at one of our Share Your Story events.
Membership fees will become due on the 1st January 2025. You can pay online, using the particulars on our website, or call in and pay in our rooms when they are open.
Please have a safe and happy break over the festive season.
This is the front cover of the new revised second edition of the Early Pioneers of Dubbo pre –1882. . A well attended book launch took place at the Cultural Centre on Friday 15th November, followed by afternoon tea. This new publication can be purchased from our library for $55 plus $17.95 postage and handling. Just download the order form from our publications section.
The hard working team (pictured here) of Linda Barnes, Sandy Logue, Lesley Abrahams, Di Chase and Karlyn Robinson worked tirelessly for 12 months to bring this publication to fruition.
Dubbo & District Family History Society Inc will launch our new book, a revised edition of Early Pioneers of Dubbo Pre-1882 in November, close to Dubbo Day, the 175th anniversary of Dubbo’s gazettal as a village.
This is a very important addition to the early history of Dubbo. With new resources available we have been able to edit and add to our previous edition. It has been completely reset and includes new photographs and some new biographies. Huge effort has been made by the book committee to make it a fabulous edition!
You are invited to the launch, which will be held in the Auditorium at the Western Plains Cultural Centre on Friday 15 November2024 at 2.00pm. We would be delighted if you could join us for this special event. We hope that some descendants of the original pioneers in the book will also be able to attend. Just a few of the names mentioned in this updated publication are Brocklehurst, Carr, Furney, Gillis, Rorke, Samuels, Serisier and Tink.
Please advise Lyn at baretsmiths@bigpond.com before Wednesday 13th November if you would like to attend.
Our Share Your Story on Friday 20th September will be held in the Auditorium (near the museum entrance) in the Cultural Centre. Our guest for this occasion will be Rachael Melhuish from Wellington who will share with us her research relating to “the impact of music on the mentalhealth and well being of WW1 soldiers”. You may remember how Bert McLellan told us at our last Share Your Story how soldiers in Vietnam enjoyed music. As usual it will commence at 2pm followed by afternoon tea and a chance to speak to Rachael. The cost is $8, and you must RSVP by Wednesday 18th to baretsmith@bigpond.com
We all meet ‘brick walls’in our family history research, and find it frustrating not being able to make any progress. How can we break through them?
The society will conduct an information sessions about this very topic on Friday 21st June 2024, from 10.30am-11.30am in the Music Room next to our rooms.
We will look at reasons why our research can come to a halt and some possible ways to move forward. We will also have some time to chat about your own brick wall and between all of us, we’ll search for a solution.
As there is a limit of 20 people you will need to book in with JoMurphy by text on 0438 511 980 by Tuesday 18th June. The course will cost $7.50 for members and $15.00 for non members.
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