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Sunday Session Program

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West Room - Sunday

9:30 am - Session

Speaker: Janis Hanley

Title: The Faces of Croydon: Chinese-Aboriginal genealogy on a sign.

Central Room - Sunday

9:30 am - Session

Sponsor Speaker: Ancestry

Topic: Identifying, Acquiring & Digitising Historical Records at Ancestry.com.

East Room - Sunday

9:30 am - Session

Speaker: Fiona Brooker

Title: They Came as Crew.

West Room - Sunday

11:00 am - Session

Speaker: Stephanie Ryan

Title: Theodore, Queensland: “the design to lift land settlement to a higher plane” and to build “the first model garden city of Australia”.

West Room - Sunday

12:00 pm Session

Speaker: Charlotte Sale

Title: It wasn’t what you knew, it’s who you knew.

Central Room - Sunday

11:00 am Session

Sponsor Speaker: Imaging Aust & NZ

Topic - Preserving History: holistic solutions for modernising businesses and organisations with a focus on innovative digitisation services.

Central Room - Sunday

12:00 pm Session

Featured  Speaker: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Title: Non-European convicts.

East Room - Sunday

11:00 am Session

Speaker: Kerry Farmer

Title: The Tapestry of Migration Records.

East Room - Sunday

12:00 pm Session

Speaker: Maggie Gaffney

Title: ‘Far away to a strange land’ – the 1863 voyage of the Mermaid to New Zealand.

West Room - Sunday

2:00 pm - Session

Speaker: Helen Smith

Title: Delving into place: Local History enhances genealogy.

West Room - Sunday

3:00 pm - Session

Speaker: Jill Ball

Title: The Thoughtful Ancestor: leaving a large footprint for future generations.

Central Room - Sunday

2:00 pm - Session

Speaker: Sally Romano

Title: Paper to Pixels: Digitising Your Genealogical Records.

Central Room - Sunday

3:00 pm - Session

Speaker: Andrew Redfern

Title: Artificial Intelligence in Family History: Friend or Foe?

East Room - Sunday

2:00 pm - Session

Speaker: Darryl Low Choy

Title: They were There: Situating your family history within its broader historical context.

East Room - Sunday

3:00 pm - Session

Speaker: David Ryan

Title: ‘Land for the people’: Researching Irish Agrarian Ancestors in 19th Century Ireland.

Central Room - Sunday

4:30 pm - Session

Featured Speaker: Nick Barratt

Title: The Future of Family History.

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17th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry & 5th Queensland History State Conference

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