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Welcome to the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
LATEST NEWS
| Convict Interests - Convict Ships now online. |
ANNUAL SEMINAR 2009 |
'Currency Lasses and Beyond' - Women of Australia's Past Saturday 8 August 2009 Springwood Baptist Church Hall, 313 Macquarie Rd, Springwood Please download Program and Application to Attend |
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MEETING | Friday, 10 July 2009 10.00 am Springwood Civic
Centre upstairs | Workshop: Ian Kendall, Using the Internet for Family History (and what's NOT there) | | NEXT
ACTIVITY | Thursday, 16 July 2009 9.30 am Springwood Station Car Park
| Penrith Museum of Fire & Penrith Library |
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.
Map © copyright J Edwards 1999
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 10am to 1pm every Tuesday & Thursday, also on the last Monday & Saturday of each month. Members able to assist may be present on other days without notice.
The Society meetings are held at 10am on the second Friday February to November in the upper hall of BMCC's Springwood Centre, opposite the entrance to the Library. Visitors are welcome. Alternately meetings feature a guest speaker or a workshop as well as a resume of the business of the Society. Committee meeting dates are included for Activities for 2009 (see under Archive of Events). Members are encouraged to make suggestions & raise concerns.
Fiche readers & 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. Some print out facilities are available. The catalogue of the Society's holdings is on our computer & a hard copy is available. General access to our holdings is via Resources on this website.
Currently BMFHS holds more than 900 books grouped by content. Our librarian, Rhonda Flowers & helpers are working to improve the layout etc of the library area. BMCC family history holdings are in the same area.
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.
LATEST NEWS
Convict Interests The Blue Mountains Family History Society has begun compiling a list of Convict Ancestors, Pioneers and Interests of our Members. Many of our members have quite a few Convict Ancestors whilst others are researching groups of Convicts or particular Convict Ships. This list, along with details of the member involved is available at the Family History Centre in Springwood Library in a loose-leaf folder.
This list is now also available progressively on this website and will be found here. Convict Interests
Non-Member Research
The Blue Mountains Family History Society Inc offers a research service for non-members and others living away from the Blue Mountains.
The cost for this service is $25.00 and is payable in advance and all activity is by regular mail.
Please contact the Research Officer of the Blue Mountains Family History Society, PO BOX 97 SPRINGWOOD NSW 2777.
Please include as much information as you can to assist our Researcher is sourcing information for your request. After inital research is completed, further research will be at additional cost.
For further information email bmfhsweb@gmail.com
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