Speakers

Option For Non-Members

Non-members are welcome to attend Zoom meetings featuring our speakers on payment of a $5 fee. CLICK HERE to register and pay (must be at least 24 hours prior to meeting)

5 April

Helen Smith - Epidemics: Not Just the Flu!

Helen is a speaker, DNA specialist, researcher, and author with a strong interest in medical and social history. She has spoken in person and online in every state and territory in Australia, in Canada, USA, New Zealand and England, on 15 Unlock the Past cruises and has regularly presented for Legacy Family Webinars. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild.

3 May

Frank Kitto (Qld) - Using My Heritage

7 June

Louise Steding from Cold Case - Hartley Vale Cemetery: Unmarked Graves

5 July

Helen Baggott (UK) - Posted in the Past

2 August

Sue Swalwell (UK) - Do As I Say, Not as I Did: Reflections of an Imperfect Genealogist

6 September

Gillian Lewis (National Maritime Museum) - Japanese Midget Submarine Attack

Gillian joined the Australian National Maritime Museum as a volunteer guide in 2008 when she retired from a successful sales career in commercial building at CSR Building Products and has also been a member of the ANMM Speakers for past 6 years developing several presentations and regularly speaking to community groups. Gillian comes from a family with a history in the merchant and Royal Australian Navies. She has a special interest in the loss with all hands of HMAS Sydney (II) in November 1941 after a battle with the German raider HSK Kormoran and has volunteered her time for several years to search genealogical data bases for living relatives of Sydney crew to be DNA to assist in identifying the unknown serviceman from the ship. She is also interested in WW1 history, particularly the Western front theatre of war and is a passionate traveler having visited over 120 countries so far.

4 October

Jenny Joyce - Paleography

Jenny Joyce is a professional genealogist based in Sydney, Australia. She has been study family history for over 30 years.
Jenny writes a genealogy blog and has a genealogy podcast relating to the UK, Australia and New Zealand

1 November

Lilian Magill - Military Websites

6 December

Christmas Meeting - details to be advised