Education

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Education Courses are held at the Research Centre. You can register for a class at a monthly meeting, at the Research Centre in person, by phone (9523 8948), or by email

COSTS: Unless otherwise specified, the cost to attend a class or seminar is $10 for members and $15 for couple members and non-members. It is essential to register for a class, as class sizes are limited and resources are only provided for the numbers of persons registered. Money can be paid on the night of the class.

For Introduction to Family History Sessions, you may wish to attend all five sessions and if so, the cost is reduced to $45 for a single member and $70 for member couples and on-members.

Interest Group meetings do not require booking and the fee is $5 for members and $10 for visitors. All meeting dates and times for 2017 can be found on the Interest Groups link and are also included in the Events Calendar.

Classes & Workshops

22 May
STARTING OUT IN SYDNEY& NSW (Jean Campbell & Barbara Wimble)
7:00pm – 8:30pm

FIRST RECORDS                                                        
  1. Collecting Information
  2. Sources of Information
  3. Keeping Records
  4. Written record collection
  5. Genealogical Charts
RECORDS IN SYDNEY – OVERVIEW
  1. BBFHS Research Centre Resources
  2. Local Library
  3. State Library
  4. Mitchell Library
  5. State Records of NSW
  6. The National Archives of Australia (NSW section)
  7. Society of Australian Genealogists                 
  8. Royal Australian Historical Society
NSW BDM
  1. NSW BDM Website
  2. NSW BDM Wild Cards
  3. Church Codes
  4. Ancestry; NSW BDM: District of Births
  5. Pre 1856 microfilms

5 June
FIRST ARRIVALS (Jean Campbell & Barbara Wimble)
7:00pm – 8:30pm

CONVICTS AND EARLY SETTLERS
  1. Parish Registers
  2. Musters & Census
  3. Colonial Secretary’s Papers - correspondence with the government.
  4. Convicts
  5. Military Personnel
  6. Government Officials
SHIPPING & IMMIGRATION
  1. Unassisted Passengers
  2. Assisted Passengers
  3. Immigration Schemes
  4. Records of Early Immigration
  5. Emigration Societies
  6. Internet Sites (incl. TROVE)

19 June
NAMES & FREE INTERNET SITES (Jean Campbell & Barbara Wimble)
7:00pm – 8:30pm

NAMES
  1. Common Surname Origins
  2. First Names, Variants & Nicknames
AUSTRALIA
  1. Australian BDM Indexes
  2. TROVE
  3. Ryerson Index
 
FAMILY SEARCH (Workshop)
  1. Searching Records
  2. Genealogies
  3. Catalogue
  4. Family Search Wiki

10 July
OVERSEAS RESEARCH 1. (Jean Campbell & Barbara Wimble)
7:00pm – 8:30pm

SOURCES IN AUSTRALIA
  1. Genuki                  
  2. Chapman Codes
BASIC RESEARCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES
  1. BBFHS Collections
  2. Civil Registration
  3. Parish Records
  4. Census Returns
  5. Wills
 
INTRODUCING:
  1. ANCESTRY
  2. FIND MY PAST

24 July
OVERSEAS RESEARCH 2. (Jean Campbell & Barbara Wimble)
7:00pm – 8:30pm         

BASIC RESEARCH IN IRELAND
  1. Migration
  2. Surnames
  3. Church Records
  4. Irish Information in Australia
  5. Information in Ireland
  6. Division of Land
 
BASIC RESEARCH IN SCOTLAND
  1. Civil Registration
  2. Old Parish Registers (OPR)
  3. Kirk Session Minutes
  4. Census
  5. ScotlandsPeople  
  6. Scotland’s Places

SOME INFORMATION ON OTHER COUNTRIES
            New Zealand, USA & Canada, Europe

21 August
Workshop
INTERNET ARCHIVE
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
Its web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains over 308 billion web captures.
10am – 11am

11 September
SOME “BRICK WALL” SOLUTIONS
Sometimes, researchers can’t find a possibility of locating their ancestor; a “brick wall”! When you have exhausted all the obvious possibilities, consider the less obvious… This class will give you some ideas for searching around those barriers.
7pm – 8pm

23 October
USING TIMELINES FOR FAMILY HISTORY
Timelines are a great idea for organising your family history information. They can help locate your ancestor at a given time/ place and help you understand your ancestor’s life. There might be events that affected your family. They can show you what records, etc. you might be missing. You can use timelines to analyze the records you have found.  10am – 11am