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Finding Your Family - without leaving home - Redcliffe Libra

Finding Your Family - without leaving home
Tired of fighting the traffic?
Sick of hunting for a carpark and lugging all your family history research around with you?
Why not find out how to do your research from home?
In this session, you will be shown how you can to use online genealogy resources for the best possible result. 
How to get started online, what sites are the most useful and how to keep up to date with the latest information.
Morning tea will be supplied.
Dates Redcliffe Library, 07 March 2012
Times: 10.00am - 12noon
Cost: Free
Bookings: Bookings for this event are required.
Contact: Redcliffe Library - (07) 3283 0311
Redcliffe.library@moretonbay.qld.gov.au

QFHS Irish Interest Group

Meetings are held on the second Saturday of the even-numbered months at the QFHS Library & Resource Centre, 58 Bellevue AvenueGAYTHORNE at 10:00am.All QFHS members & first time visitor with an interest in researching family who migrated from Ireland are welcome to attend. Some meetings will include an invited guest speaker, with specialist knowledge, to talk on topics and Irish history that will greatly assist with your own specific research.Another important reason of meetings is to share already acquired knowledge and to spend some time discussing details of each other's research. The group's objective is to help each other, particularly anyone who is having difficulty.

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Free online classes from LDS Familysearch.org

This is great news from FamilySearch.

Classes in the following topics  are now available online at no charge:

England Beginning Research

Germany Research

Ireland Research

Italy Research

Principios basicos para la investigacion genealogica en Hispanoamerica  (Mexico)

Research Principles and Tools

Russia Research

U.S. Research

Available at http://tinyurl.com/debr9s

Some can only be viewed online, but others can be downloaded to view anytime.

How to conduct successful oral histories

Bob Mitchell – Mr Memory Man – will demonstrate his oral history methods at Redcliffe Library, Monday 26 April, 10.00 to 11.30

In this session participants will gain an insight into preparing questions, conducting an interview and the use of techniques such as mind mapping.

Examining the use of the five senses, and his famous “Box of Tricks”, Bob Mitchell will examine the reliability of memory and look at sorting fact from fiction.

Other topics covered include privacy and copyright issues, post-interview tasks such as logging and transcribing and ideas on what to do with the completed interview.

Bob is a historian and a long standing member of the Oral History Association of Australia.  He interviews older folk recording their life stories on audio CDs as keepsakes and is an expert in reminiscence and story telling.

This session with Bob will cover

• Tips about how to ask questions at an interview
• What questions to ask
• Types of interviewees you may encounter
• Reliability of memory
• Memory aids
• Equipment

Free but Bookings essential – Phone 3283 0249

Births, deaths and marriages information session - 16.04.10, 10:00am

Family history information session at the State Library of Queensland Birth, deaths and marriages

Finding birth, death and marriage records is one of the first steps in tracing your family tree. In this two part presentation a representative from the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages will provide an insight into this vital aspect of family history research and what the future holds for their service delivery. Then State Library family history staff will demonstrate how to negotiate a variety of records associated with births, deaths and marriages, many of which are not on the Internet. At the end of the session there will be an opportunity to have your questions answered by the experts.

When Fri 16 Apr, 10am–12.30pm Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2 Tickets $14.50, bookings required (includes morning tea) Bookings qtix - http://www.qtix.com.au or 136 246

Time: 10:00am

Date: Fri 16th Apr, 2010

Location: slq Auditorium 2, level 2