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Education

Classes are $10

Interest Group meetings are $5 for members and visitors and can be booked and paid for on line. All meeting dates and times  can be found on the Interest Groups link and are also included in the Events Calendar.

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Class

Tuesday 14 February - Convict Ancestors and How to Find Them
Research Centre 10.30am-12noon
Cost: $10 CLICK TO REGISTER & PAY

Class

Tuesday 18 April
Research Centre - start time to be advised
Cost: $10 CLICK TO REGISTER & PAY

Using Land Records in your Family Research - Jeff Madsen
This session will provide an introduction to NSW Land Records available online at the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV). It will also demonstrate how these historical land records can be used to enhance your Family research.
 
The session will outline:

• Early land records
• Parish and Town maps
• Land Title systems
• Using historical Land Records for family research
• Use of NSW Land Registry Services (including HLRV), Geographical Names Board and SIX Maps websites
  

The session will be presented by BBFHS member, Jeff Madsen, who has had a long career in Information Technology using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software to prepare maps for Government, private enterprise and family researchers. His interest in genealogy highlighted that maps and historical geography could be used to enhance a family tree or story to become more than just names and dates.
He has used the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) since 1999 and, more recently, to research property owned by ancestors, greatly assisting the writing of family stories.
Jeff is involved in digitising manuscript material for the Society of Australian Genealogists.