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 mental health 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 Jo Murphy by text on 0438 511 980 by Tuesday 18th June.  The course will cost $7.50 for  members and $15.00 for non members.

Share Your Story for May will be presented by Cathy Thompson with the theme “From Little Things, Big Things Grow”.  The name came about after Cathy originally planned to write her father’s story, but it grew to include much more research and went back to the first generation of the Mcintyre family to live in Australia.
Please note the event will be held in the Cultural Centre Auditorium, on Friday 17th May commencing at 2pm.  There is a cost of $8 which includes afternoon tea.  If you plan to attend please reply by email to Lyn at baretsmith@bigpond.com by Wednesday15th May 2024.

Continuing our training theme for 2024 we have to announce an information session for interested parties called “Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls when using online family history databases“.  The information session will show you more effective and productive ways to get the best results when you’re searching family history databases such as FamilySearch, Trove, British Newspaper Archive, Ancestry, FindMyPast and more.  It will be held on Friday 19th April from 10.30-11.30am in the music room at the Cultural Centre Precinct. The cost will be $7.50 for members and $15 for non-members. You must book your spot by emailing martinandlinda@gmail.com or ‘phone 68878284 before Wednesday 17th April.

DDFHS is offering a four week course to help people who are beginning their family history search, or who have started and are not sure what to do next.  Following are just some of the points to be covered:
How to organise information you already have.
Where to find new information.
Using birth, death and marriage certificates.
How to use online databases, both free and subscription.
Finding ancestors in immigration records.
The course will be conducted on each
Wednesday in March, that is the   6th, 13th, 20th and 27th of March.
They will run from 10.30am-12.30pm in the Music room at the Community Arts Centre.  Cost will be $7.50 per session for members , $15 per session for non-members.
You must book in for these courses so please contact Linda on 6887 8284 or email martinandlinda@gmail.com to reserve your spot for all or some of the courses.

Our first Share Your Story for this year will be presented by Dugald Saunders MP, member for the Dubbo Electorate. Dugald will provide some insights into the unexpected discovery of his Indian heritage, plus his journey from Mendooran as a child to his current role as our local member.  Come along and hear this interesting story. The cost to attend is $8 which includes afternoon tea and a chance for a chat with Dugald and family history tragics.  Share Your Story will be held in the Drama Room upstairs at the Cultural Centre, commencing at 2pm.