"Settlers From Afar"
Saturday Oct 17th 2009
"Settlers From Afar"
10am - 4pm
Lemon Tree Passage Bowling Club
Guest Speakers are:
Helen Dickinson
"Land Grant Records & Titles." "Probate Packets & Deceased Estates and how they relate to Land Titles."
Ray Thorburn
"Finding those difficult Irish and Scottish Records."
Book launch of the society's new publication
"Port Stephens Bench Book May to December 1832"
The publication will be available for purchase on the day and is a companion book to the very popular Convicts of the Australian Agricultural Company 1825-1850 which is now in its 3rd printing.
Table holders include:
Family History Services
Elizabeth Hook
Keepsake Genealogy Charts
Liverpool Genealogy Society Inc
Manning Wallamba Family History Society Inc
Nepean Family History Society Inc
Newcastle Family History Society Inc
Port Stephens Historical Society Inc
Marilyn Rowan (transcription agent)
Tomaree Family History Group
Turtle Consolidated Services (transcription agent)
Wyong Family History Society
Pamela McGlinn (author)
Fort Scratchley Historical Society Inc.
Geoff Cannon (1st Titleholders of Land)
Creative Memories (scrapbooking)
Joy & Allan Murrin (transcription agents)
Kerrijon Framing
Maitland Family History Circle
Morpeth Museum
Raymond Terrace Historical Society
Teapot Genies
Suzanne Voytas (author)
There will also be a miscellanous table with flyers, brochures etc.
from organisations not attending on the day.
National Library of Australia
Spirit of Gallipoli
Gould Genealogy
+ Many more
A Raffle will be held on the day with numerous prizes.
Entry Fee is $5.00
Table bookings are $10 (includes 2 free delegates)
Table bookings close 29th Sept 2009
Food available on site.
Contact the Society at psfhs@yahoo.com.au for further information
PO Box 32 Tanilba Bay NSW 2319