Share Your Story (First event for 2025)

Share Your Story will be the first event for Dubbo Family History this year.  Keep Friday 21st February 2025 free to attend this presentation.  Sue Hood (previously Sue Morris) will share with us, the stories of her parents families, and their lives in the local area. Sue is well known to many of us as the hard working secretary of the Dubbo Show Society.  The presentation will be held in the Drama Room (previously Black Box Theatre), upstairs in the Community Arts Centre section of the Cultural Centre. We will commence at 2pm, but please make sure you RSVP by email to Lyn at baretsmith@bigpond.com by Wednesday 19th February. Your $8 entry fee will include afternoon tea.

 

Council SPARC Funding Presentation

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.

Christmas/New Year closure

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.

 

Book Launch of revised and updated “Early Pioneers of Dubbo pre – 1882”

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.

Book Launch, Friday 15th November 2024

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 November 2024 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.

Share Your Story – Friday 20th September

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

 

 

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