What’s on …

What’s on? To keep you up-to-date with what’s coming up, I’ve compiled a list of the (mostly) Australian genealogy and history related events, both in person, and online that are coming up. As you can see there, is plenty on, so if you wish to keep on learning, and boost your genealogical and historical knowledge, you can do so – with many being available from the comfort of your own home.   

March 2023

27 March 2023
HCSA Fellows Lecture Night 2023 (South Australia)
Organised by: History Council of SA

28 March 2023
First Look at AncestryDNA (Online)
Organised by: Society of Australian Genealogists

28 March 2023
A ticket to paradise: migrant selection documents (South Australia)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

28 March 2023
Where do I start? Tracing family history for beginners (Queensland)
Organised by: Moreton Bay Region Libraries

28 March 2023
Members Lounge – Book Club (Online)
Organied by: Queensland Family History Society

29 March 2023
Descriptive discovery (Online)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

29 March 2023
Women in leadership (Online)
Organised by: National Library of Australia

29 March 2023
Her Home: Women’s Housing Past and Present (New South Wales)
Organised by: Museums of History New South Wales

29 March 2023
Aboriginal Family History (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

29 March 2023
Family History Talk and Tour – Getting started (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

30 March 2023
Wikitree Workshop (Online)
Organised by: Society of Austalian Genealogists

April 2023

1 April 2023
Focus on … Ancestry (day-long event) (Online & New South Wales)
Organied by: Society of Australian Genealogists

1 April 2023
Irish Interest Group with special guest, James McMaster (Online)
Organied by: Queensland Family History Society

3 April 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Understanding DNA Matches (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

3 April 2023
Fifteen ways to use Excel in family history (Online)
Organised by: Society of Austalian Genealogists

4 April 2023
Genealogy Club: Create Infographics (South Australia)
Organise by: Playford Library Service

5 April 2023
Extracting, Abstracting and Transcribing (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

11 April 2023
Using the NSW State Archives Collection on the Museums of History NSW website (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Queensland

12 April 2023
Captured: Portraits of Crime (Online & New South Wales)
Organised by: Hawkesbury Library Service & Hawkesbury Family History Group

12 April 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘Sir Charles Forbes’ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

14 April 2023
Using signatures to identify families (Online)
Organised by: Queensland Family History Society

14 April 2023
After dark: protest art at the archives (ACT)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

14 April 2023
Accidental Heiress: Journey of a Glencoe squatter’s daughter (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

14 April – 26 May 2023 (4 sessions)
Hands On: Historical Land Records in New South Wales (New South Wales)
Organised by: Society of Austalian Genealogists

15 April 2023
Scottish Indexes Conference XX (Online)
Organised by: Scottish Indexes

15 April 2023
Shipwrecks in Newcastle Harbour (New South Wales)
Organised by: Lake Macquarie Family History Group

17 April 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Using DNA Matches (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

17 April 2023
Scottish Immigrants to South Australia (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

18 April 2023
Using Land Record in Your Family Research (New South Wales)
Organised by: Botany Bay Family History Society

18 April 2023
Those who served: discovering service records in the collection (Queensland)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

18 April 2023
Genealogy Club: Understanding Military Speak (South Australia)
Organise by: Playford Library Service

18 April 2023
How To: Digitize Your VHS Tapes (Western Australia)
Organised by: City of Swan Libraries

19 April 2023
Descriptive discovery (Online)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

19 April 2023
Presenting…General Sir John Monash GCMG KCB VD, Gallipoli to Amiens (Online)
Organied by: Queensland Family History Society

19 April 2023
Junior Pioneers Explore Glenelg (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

21 April 2023
Those who served: discovering service records in the collection (Queensland)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

21 April 2023
Your family’s military medals (Queensland)
Organised by: Moreton Bay Region Libraries

22 April 2023
Using Family History software (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

22 April 2023
Births, Deaths & Marriages: Official and Alternatives (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

24 April 2023
An epic battle: The Rats of Tobruk (South Ausralia)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

26 April 2023
Talking about … Town Halls and Schools of Arts (Online)
Organised by: Queensland Family History Society

26 April 2023
Research Q & A (Victoria & Online)
Organised by: Geelong Family History Group

26 April 2023
Aboriginal Family History (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

26 April 2023
Family History Talk and Tour – Getting started (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

27 April 2023
Stories, spies and spaces! Building history tour of the National Archives (ACT)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

27 April 2023
Tracing ancestors: connecting cultures workshop (New South Wales)
Organised by: Hawkesbury Library Service & Hawkesbury Family History Group

27 April 2023
Be Connected: Online family history (Victoria)
Organised by: Castlemaine Library

28 April 2023
Discovering the State Archives Collection (Online)
Organised by: Museums of History New South Wales

29 April 2023
Bringing our Ancestors to Life (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Queensland

29 April 2023
Ghosts of Perth (Western Australia)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

29 April 2023
Migration Stories Northbridge Walking Trail (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

29 April 2023
Perth Heritage and History in Virtual Reality (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

30 April 2023
Perth Heritage and History in Virtual Reality (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

May 2023

1-31 May 2023
South Australia’s History Festival (Online & South Australia)
Organised by: History Trust of South Australia

1 May 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Managing your Ancestry matches, and colour coding (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

1 May 2023
Tea Tree Gully heritage bus tour (South Australia)
Organised by: Tea Tree Gully Library

1 May 2023
In Her Honour: Remembering Queen Elizabeth II (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

2 May 2023
Discover the collections of MHNSW (Online)
Organised by: Museums of History New South Wales

2 May 2023
Genealogy Club: Poor Law Records (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

5 May 2023
Curator floor talk: Disrupt, persist, invent (ACT)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

5 May 2023
In Our Neighbours’ Soil Our Anzacs Sleep: Honouring Australia’s dead from the to post-WW2 Malayan wars who remain buried in Singapore and Malaysia (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

6-7 May 2023
Medieval and Rare Trades Festival (South Australia)
Organised by: Medieval and Rare Trades Festival

7 May 2023
Walking Tour of Elizabeth (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

8 May 2023
Introduction to Ancestry and Trove (South Australia)
Organised by: Tea Tree Gully Library

9 May 2023
From restricted to assisted webinar: Maltese migration to Australia (Online)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

10 May 2023
Colonial to couture (Online)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

10 May 2023
Port Adelaide Heritage Bus Tours (South Australia)
Organised by: Port Adelaide Historical Society

12 May 2023
Finding the family farm (Online)
Organised by: Queensland Family History Society

13 May 2023
High Tea and the CWA (ACT)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

15 May 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Ways to group your matches (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

15-21 May 2023
Kernewek Lowender, Copper Coast Cornish Festival 2022 (South Australia)
Organised by: Kernewek Lowender Inc.

16 May 2023
Genealogy Club: Identify Medals and Badges (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

17 May 2023
Presenting…Chasing the Sunshine – The Sunshine Express and the Sunlander (Online)
Organised by: Queensland Family History Society

17 May 2023
Uleybury School Museum Open Day (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

18 May 2023
Moreton Bay History Seminar (Queensland)
Organised by: Moreton Bay Region Libraries

18 May 2023
The history of Malmsbury Bluestone (Victoria)
Organised by: Castlemaine Library

20 May 2023
Old Railways of Lake Macquarie (New South Wales)
Organised by: Lake Macquarie Family History Group

21 May 2023
Remembering Adelaide: Military & War (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

21 May 2023
Streets of Adelaide: Churches (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

21 May 2023
Streets of Adelaide: Pubs (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

23 May 2023
More than locomotives: Commonwealth Railway photographs (South Australia)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

23 May 2023
Genealogy Lock-In (South Australia)
Organised by: Playford Library Service

24 May 2023
The racecourses of Geelong region (Victoria & Online)
Organised by: Geelong Family History Group

24 May 2023
Be Connected: Introduction to Trove (Victoria)
Organised by: Castlemaine Library

25 May 2023
Raising Ghosts (Western Australia)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

28 May 2023
Port Adelaide Heritage Bus Tours (South Australia)
Organised by: Port Adelaide Historical Society

29 May 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Ancestry’s ThruLines (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

31 May 2023
Seeking to be heard – Indigenous voices in the Constitution Tour (ACT)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

31 May 2023
Family History: Copyright, licensing and citations (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

31 May 2023
Aboriginal Family History (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

June 2023

2 June 2023
The Campbells of Anlaby: Working and Social Life in Mid North South Australia (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

5 June 2023
Masonic Lodge Tour and Talk (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

6 June 2023
Boom to bust (Online)
Organised by: National Archives of Australia

7 June 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘Duchess of Northumberland‘ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

14 June 2023
Presenting…AGM & Presentation of QFHS Family History Book Award (Online)
Organied by: Queensland Family History Society

15 June 2023
Show and Tell: treasures from the Local Studies Collection (New South Wales)
Organised by: Cessnock City Library

19 June 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Finding more DNA matches (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

23 June 2023
Probate packets revisited (Online)
Organised by: Museums of History New South Wales

28 June 2023
Who was Poona Dam’s John Doe? (Victoria & Online)
Organised by: Geelong Family History Group

28 June 2023
Database searching: Tips, tricks and methods (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

28 June 2023
Aboriginal Family History (Western Australia)
Organised by: State Library of Western Australia

July 2023

3 July 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Chromosome browsers (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

7 July 2023
The brief parliamentary career of Miss Kay Brownbill, SA’s firstfemale member of the House of Representatives (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

7 July 2023
The Life of Sir Hubert Wilkins (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

8 July 2023
Exploring the hidden history of Bridges Hill history walk (New South Wales)
Organised by: Cessnock City Library

8 July 2023
Online Repositories: The Big 3 (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

12 July 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘Orleana’ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

17 July 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Genetic Family Tree and DNA Painter (part 1) (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

26 July 2023
Family History for Starters, “Do Overs” and Brick Walls – Part 2 (Victoria & Online)
Organised by: Geelong Family History Group

31 July 2023
DNA for Family Historians – Genetic Family Tree and DNA Painter (part 2) (Online)
Organised by: Genealogical Society of Victoria

August 2023

4 August 2023
Sir Charles Todd: Fifty years of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) leadership (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

9 August 2023
Women of the early Hawkesbury (Online & New South Wales)
Organised by: Hawkesbury Library Service & Hawkesbury Family History Group

9 August 2023
Same Ships Project Workshop (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

12 August 2023
Exploring Greta history walk (New South Wales)
Organised by: Cessnock City Library

16 August 2023
My Four Pioneering Great-Grandfathers (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

23 August 2023
GFHG AGM & talk: Finding Geelong in the National Archives of Australia (Victoria & Online)
Organised by: Geelong Family History Group

27 August 2023
Port Adelaide Heritage Bus Tours (South Australia)
Organised by: Port Adelaide Historical Society

September 2023

1 September 2023
Flinders Street Baptists: Facilites for a new community (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

11 September 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘Cygnet’ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

23 September 2023
UK Online Repositories (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

23 September 2023
Online Newspapers: Australia, UK and NZ (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

October 2023

6 October 2023
Exploring Weston history walk (New South Wales)
Organised by: Cessnock City Library

6 October 2023
Designing the Sleep-out in Twentieth Century South Australia (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

9 October 2023
Port Adelaide History Museum (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

11 October 2023
Palaeography: German script and print (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

11 October 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘Trusty’ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

25 October 2023
Port Adelaide Heritage Bus Tours (South Australia)
Organised by: Port Adelaide Historical Society

November 2023

3 November 2023
Sir Josiah Symon: Anti-Socialist Senator for South Australia (South Australia)
Organised by: Historical Society of South Australia

8 November 2023
Palaeography: English and Scottish (South Australia)
Organised by: WEA South Australia & History Helper

8 November 2023
Same Ships Project: ‘William Nichol’ (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

15 November 2023
State Records of SA Tour and Talk (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

17 November 2023
Exploring Chinamans Hollow istory walk (New South Wales)
Organised by: Cessnock City Library

December 2023

6 December 2023
1843 Retrospective Talks (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia

28 December 2023
Proclamation Day Luncheon (South Australia)
Organised by: Pioneers Association of South Australia