Speakers

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6 July

Fiona Brooker - A Step Through Timelines

Fiona Brooker is a professional genealogist who has been actively researching her family history for over 30 years, inspired by two marriage certificates and a collection of family letters written from New Zealand back to her immigrant ancestor's family in Devon. Looking for a way to share family recipes with others she discovered digital scrapbooking and has used this as a way to preserve both the present and the past for the future

3 August

Lesley Potter - Connections & Interconnections in Sydney Society in the 1830s

Dr Lesley Potter is a retired Registered Nurse and Midwife who is currently Hon Archivist, Australian College of Nursing (ACN), Chair of the ACN History Faculty, Chair NSW Chapter of Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) and member of the Cape Banks Family History Society. She is interested in historical research of the colonial era, especially health care, nursing and midwifery history.

7 September

A Tale of Two Translators: A Personal glimpse of Chinese-Australian History - Megan Nielson

BBFHS member Megan Nielson will share her journey discovering her Chinese ancestors

5 October

Janet Few - Putting Your Ancestors in Their Place: Ten Steps to a One Place Study

Dr Janet Few is in her fourth decade of local and family history research. She was the critical reader and family history advisor to the Open University for the course Family and Community History and went on to tutor this course. Janet maintains her own one place studies for three North Devon villages. She is Vice-chair of the Society for One-Place Studies and lectures regularly on One Place research.

2 November

Rob Hamilton - What's In a Mason's Case?

Following his highly successful talk on "All Things Masonic" last year, Rob Hamilton will delve further into Free Masonry. From a family of masons dating back to his great grandfather, Rob is a member of several Masonic study circles and the Victorian Lodge of Research and a freemason in the English Constitution.

Rob has written numerous papers on various Masonic and related topics including the Knights Templar, the Schaw Statues of 1598 and its influence on the current fundamentals of industrial workplace conditions, Symbolism in Freemasonry, and Freemasonry: is it a religion? Rob delivers Masonic Knowledge from his 49 years of research into Freemasonry and family history.