Friday Session Program
Speakers Handout Notes - Click on the download button to download the PDF file
Central Room - Friday
9:30 am to 10:30 am - Session
Featured Speaker: Judy Russell
A Sentence of Transportation.
West Room - Friday
11:00 am - Session
Speaker: Belinda Daly
Title: Connecting Social History, local history and family history on St Helena Island.
West Room - Friday
12:00 pm Session
Speaker: Elizabeth Walsh
Title: Revisiting Local History: Using digital mapping to write a new local history.
Central Room - Friday
11:00 am Session
Sponsor Speaker:
Alex Daw & Charlotte Sale
Queensland Family History Society Inc. Topic: Unlocking Family Mysteries: A Case Study using the Search Party Method.
Central Room - Friday
12:00 pm Session
Featured Speaker: Nick Barratt
Title: When Harry Met Dotty.
East Room - Friday
11:00 am Session
Speaker: Cathie Sherwood
Title: Scattered Leaves, Indelible Bonds: The Diaspora of Six Irish Sisters.
East Room - Friday
12:00 pm Session
Speaker: Liesl Harrold
Title: Proclaimed as a rebel to the government: Researching Irish Rebels in Australia.
West Room - Friday
2:00 pm - Session
Speaker: Jennifer Harrison
Title: Unravelling the travelling: far-flung forebears.
West Room - Friday
3:00 pm - Session
Speaker: Perry McIntyre
Title: ‘All they wanted was good treatment’: understanding the Irish Workhouse orphan girls.
Central Room - Friday
2:00 pm - Session
Sponsor Speaker: Cara Downes
National Archives of Australia Topic: Uncovering family history through the national archival collection.
Central Room - Friday
3:00 pm - Session
Speaker: Jacqueline Stockdale
Title: The New Settlers League: helping immigrants “live happily ever after”.
East Room - Friday
2:00 pm - Session
Speaker: Neil Renaud
Title: Revealing the Huguenots: Their Diaspora, Their Descendants, and My Own Personal Discoveries.
East Room - Friday
3:00 pm - Session
Speaker: Pauleen Cass
Title: Leaving home, Finding home: Bavaria to New South Wales and Queensland.
West Room - Friday
4:30 pm - Session
Speaker: Sharyn Merkley
Title: Uncovering Forgotten Women.
Central Room - Friday
4:30 pm - Session
Sponsor Speaker: Rosemary Kopittke
Gould Genealogy & History Topic: Police Gazettes: The victims, the perpetrators and more.
East Room - Friday
4:30 pm - Session
Speaker: John Boeren
Title: From the Netherlands to unknown places.
