Wyong Family History Group Inc.

13/11/2025

📣 Let’s Talk About… Family History Societies!

🗓 Monday 24 November
🕢 7.30pm AEDT on Zoom - FREE for members: https://www.sag.org.au/event-6121693

Ever wondered what it’s like to be part of a local family history society—or how they can support your research?

Join us for a special edition of Let’s Talk About… where our panel explores the value, vitality and community spirit of family history groups across Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.

We’re delighted to welcome guests from:
🇳🇿 New Zealand Society of Genealogists
🇦🇺 Tasmanian Family History Society Inc
🇬🇧 Suffolk Family History Society

12/11/2025

The November meeting for HSFHG will feature Christine Yeats who will explain the significance of the Australia Joint Copying project and will provide guidance on how to make the best use of this unique collection for local and family history research.

This will be held next Wednesday, 19th November between 2 - 4 pm in Hornsby Library, meeting room 4. The meeting is a public meeting and free to attend.

Christine is the Senior Vice President of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Immediate Past President of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies and Convenor of the Assessment Sub-Committee of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Committee. An archivist by profession, Christine is a researcher and professional historian with a particular interest in Australia’s colonial history. Her current research projects include Australia’s Romani, colonial women silk growers and the botanist Sarah Hynes.

Christine has presented to the HSFHG on several previous occasions and is very knowledgeable and a delight to listen to.

10/11/2025

Free YouTube Tutorials this week on Finding Your Veteran’s Records in Record Collections from Archives I, Archives II, and NNational Archives at St. Louis
https://tinyurl.com/TwistedTwigsVeteransDayGift

10/11/2025

08/11/2025

Yesterday’s guest speaker at our general meeting was local author and historian Patricia Skehan, who shared stories from her latest book The Secrets of ANZAC Ridge. Drawn from the diaries of WW1 soldier James Armitage, the book reveals powerful and surprising insights into life on the Western Front. The topic was especially fitting as we approach Armistice Day next Tuesday. Patricia’s tales of love, loss, and intrigue kept everyone captivated. Thank you, Patricia, for a wonderful presentation!
Thank you to Creightons Funeral Service for supplying the gift cars for the Raffle. The lucky winners were Brenda Cairns and Ellen Sheerin.

08/11/2025

Do you have an ancestor who ended up in a 'lunatic asylum'? Find out how to trace ancestors who suffered from mental health problems with our guide:

08/11/2025

IGRS Top Research Tip #180: Searching for post-1858 wills in England & Wales? Act quickly to save money: the cost of ordering copies will rise from Monday, 17 November 2025, by a whopping 966%, from £1.50 to £16! https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate
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07/11/2025

Are you just starting out researching your North of Ireland ancestors? This is for you - the most important and free websites to get you up and running.No pa...

05/11/2025

Search the Index here: https://www.nifhs.org/research-centre-resources/resources/search-indexed-records/

05/11/2025

Land Records, Beyond the Index:

Land records are a valuable research tool, but sometimes we stop with a brief review of an index and conclude there's nothing for us there.

Genealogy expert Joshua Taylor provides 15 steps for going beyond the index (https://content.ldschurch.org/family-history/bc/rootstech/salt-lake/2019-conference-syllabi/RT2593_Land_Records_15_Steps.pdf), with tips for finding relatives in the records, using property lists, coordinating tax and census records, and more.

Get started with land record research in Goal F2 of the United States page (https://www.thefhguide.com/project-9-united-statesf2.html ).