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MEETINGS

General meetings are held on the first Saturday of the month, commencing at 2.00 pm, in the 1st floor Meeting Room, Lotteries House, Civic Boulevard, Rockingham. See location map on Library page.

Speakers and Topics for 2018

A charge of $5 per head for members and non-members includes afternoon tea. School-age children welcome.

5 Jan	Emilliah: The Suffragist Settlement For WA That Never Was	Miriam Crandell
2 Feb	The Compilation of a Family Tree, that included many Pioneers, Convicts and WW1 soldiers	Peter Godfrey
2 March	Follow Up On Photographs	Julie Martin
6 April	Animals Used During WWI	Anne Chapple
	ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE
4 May	Ireland – LAND- Measurement, Divisions, Tenancies & Placenames	Betty Vanderlande
8 June	Adoption Jigsaw	Isobel Andrews
6 July	TBA – talking about his new book	Richard Offen
3 Aug	A talk on Copyright	Anne Giles
7 Sep	TBA

Mandurah FHS Meeting Library Precinct off Third Avenue Mandurah, next meeting 1.30pm Saturday 13th April 2019 when we have a talk about “Time Line of British History”, click here for details.

MEETINGS

May 2017’s talk was Cate Pearce’s continuation of her November talk on DNA testing.
Using her own family history research, she demonstrated how with the aid of
GEDMATCH (a free, secure website) you can find genetic cousins who might
have been tested by a different testing company. Cate took us through some of
the many useful features of GEDMATCH including analysing your ethnicity, your
ancient DNA and comparing DNA information with your matches.
Anyone who is interested in learning more about their own DNA results can contact
Cate at gengenaus@gmail.com. Cate is available for personal consultations
at the State Library on Tuesdays.

Nov 2017 Geoffrey Barber spoke of the little used, but as it proved, invaluable Manorial Records. The records cover the period 1066– 1926, and give information of the ordinary people during that time. Covering the transfer of land holdings passing from one generation to the next, often identifying three generations of a family and their relationship to each other. Also using Tithe maps they can identify the exact location of the exact location of the land in question. Of course not all records were saved, and those that were had been written in Latin up until 1733, but the Manorial Records can fill in the details that may be missing from the usual records, parish, census, and wills.

Family History Society of Rockingham & Districts Inc.

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An Affiliated Society of the Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc.

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