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.
Speakers and Topics for 2023
A charge of $5 per head for members and non-members includes afternoon tea. School-age children welcome.
All topics are subject to change.
2023 | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
7 Jan | No meeting – library closed | |
4 Feb | Beginning your research and Trying to solve brick walls | Betty Vanderlande |
4 Mar | Convicts to Australia | Peter Godfrey |
1 Apr | Q and A | |
6 May | GM and CY O’Connor Pipeline | Bill Culter |
3 Jun | Shipwrecks off the WA Coast | Peter Godfrey |
1 Jul | ||
5 Aug | President of Fremantle Roundhouse | |
2 Sep | Underage Soldiers of WW1 | Moira Wills |
7 Oct | TBA New Norcia? | |
4 Nov | About U3A worldwide and WA | Judith Amey |
3 Dec | CHRISTMAS QUIZ | |
2024 | ||
6 Jan | TBA New Norcia |
NEXT MEETING
RE-CAP
4th Feb 2023 Betty Vanderlande spoke to us about Beginning Irish Research and Trying to Solve Brick Walls; this talk focused on online resources.
She demonstrated the way to use some of the free websites and where to look online for help articles, then we had a quick look at the pay-per-view sites.
This was followed up by a list of resources available online from The National Archives of Ireland, The National Library of Ireland and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.
Lastly she reminded us to check out our libraries and Family History Societies.