Are you interested in researching your family history? Do you need some guidance about where to start and what to do next?
Our society will be running a series of four workshops during March dealing with just these topics!
The courses will run on Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19 and 26, from 10.30am to 12.30pm. They will be held in the Music Room at the Community Arts Centre (next to our family history rooms). There will be a cost of $15 for non-members and $7.50 for members.  You must register to take part. To register please contact Linda Barnes on 6887 8284 or email martinandlinda@gmail.com

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.

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.