Speakers
3 March
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Australian Newspapers & Substitutes After The 1950s
Sue Reid's family history journey was inspired when a cousin gave her a copy of a diary written by an ancestor who was a missionary in Russia in the early nineteenth century.
Sue has presented sessions at family history conferences and seminars including the three most recent Australasian Congresses on Genealogy and Heraldry, the State Library of Queensland, and the National Archives of Australia. She is the author of articles on family history published in local and overseas family history journals and other publications, and has recently published a family history, The issue of gentlemen. She is a Fellow of the Queensland Family History Society. As well as serving on the Committee of QFHS, Sue also convenes the QFHS Family History Writing Group and is the Chair of the QFHS Education Sub-Committee. |
7 April
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More Scottish Resources - Sylvia Valentine
Sylvia Valentine M.Litt, QG TM has been researching her family tree in England and Scotland for over 40 years. She is a Member of the Association of Scottish Genealogists and Researchers in Archives, (ASGRA) and is a Director of the Register of Qualified Genealogists. (RQG). In addition to undertaking client research, she also tutors family history courses for the University of Dundee and has spoken at RootsTech in both the U.S. and London. She has also spoken at conferences in Canada, New Zealand and across the UK.
Sylvia graduated as Master of Letters in Family and Local History from the University of Dundee in 2016 and is now a PhD candidate researching Opposition to Compulsory Smallpox Vaccination in Scotland 1864 – 1918. |