APOLOGIES to our FAMILY HISTORY FRIENDS
We, and BMFHS, are very grateful to Rootsweb for hosting this web site since
September 2003. Unfortunately, their recent addition of "hosted by rootsweb "
affected our template, and with it, some of the links. If a link, for instance
in Resources or Members' Interests, does not function, please return
to the banner button and then to the page you require.
All information is still available.
Members have decided that we should completely redevelop this website.
This will take several weeks
but hopefully will be competed
by late August
...... so please bear with us for a few weeks.
Welcome to the Blue Mountains, NSW,
Australia
The Society was formed in
1986 and concentrates on serving the area of the Blue
Mountains City Council from the rise from the
Cumberland Plain to Mt Victoria and the off shoots
of Mt Wilson and Mt Irvine to the north and the
Megalong Valley in the south. We are a true family history society with interests back to our roots - in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, France etc, how & where our ancestral families lived and worked and where they travelled. We have a close association with the Local Studies Librarians of BMCC - but our main focus is facilitating the family history research needs of the local residents, not local studies. We have close ties
with adjacent regions: Lithgow in the west, Nepean
(Penrith) and Hawkesbury in the east.
We are a very active family history society with regular meetings with guest speakers, workshops, regular help available (see under Springwood and Katoomba libraries), outings to resource centres and other places of interest, undertaking monumental inscriptions at local cemeteries and producing a variety of publications to aid family historians.
SPRINGWOOD LIBRARY
The genealogical resources of BMFHS and those of the BMCC Library are in the Family History section at Springwood Library. Society volunteers are in the section, weekdays from 10am to 1pm, except the 2nd Friday of the month when the Society meets at the upper hall of BMCC's Springwood Centre, opposite the entrance to the Library. Visitors are welcome.
Two fiche readers, two microfilm readers and 4 computers are set up for use in the area. The Society's CDs are available on our computers, a third computer has some of the BMCC library's CDs loaded while the fourth is for use with other CDs and has internet access. Print out facilities are available. The catalogue of the Society's holdings is on computer, and there is no hard copy available. General access to our holdings is via Resources on this website.
Currently BMFHS holds more than 850 books grouped by content. Volunteers are currently working through our holdings to develop a cross referencing system, especially for location & hard to find data such as names on electoral rolls etc. All books etc are marked "NOT FOR LOAN" but borrowing arrangements exist for our financial members.
KATOOMBA
From June 2006 BMFHS volunteers have been at Katoomba Library to help with family history enquiries, 2 to 4pm every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. This trial has been very successful and we have met many well established family history researchers as well as beginners.
Pioneer Register Vol 2 entries have closed. The Society aims to have the publication available soon.
For further information email bmfhsweb@isage.net.au
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