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Welcome to the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
LATEST NEWS
| Mt YORK-HARTLEY CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTS
This Book along with another new publication Transport Workshop, were available for sale at the annual State Conference of Family History Societies held in Wyong 18th-20th September, 2009. Both books are now available from the Society |
LATEST NEWS - COMMUNITY OUTREACH
| The first of these meetings was held at the Warrimoo Community Hall on the 12th Oct. 2009 and four members of the public attended which enabled them to have individual attention. The second such meeting was held at the Springwood Neighbourhood Centre on the 9th November and was better attended. As the venue was just across from the Library, this enabled the volunteers to access our holdings to further the research help being given. The next meeting and the last for this year will be held on Mon. 7th December 2009 at Leura Unity Church 10.30-1.30pm |
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MEETING | Friday, 13th November 2009 10.00 am Springwood Civic
Centre upstairs | Annual General Meeting (AGM)
The AGM is an important part of the life of our Society. The President's Annual Report and the Annual Financial Report (Audited) are presented at this meeting. Please show support for your Association by attending. Don't worry that someone may nominate you for a vacant position as all nominations MUST be finalized prior to the meeting, you are safe! | | NEXT
ACTIVITY | Friday 11th December 2009 - Christmas Gathering
| Brian and Nola Meagher have kindly offered their home for the Christmas gathering this year, as they have for the past two years, an offer that was gratefully accepted. Each year this gathering has been lots of fun with great food, fun activities and a time for social interaction. Mark it on your calendar. |
Latest Updates to this site: Events 2009 and Member's Interests
Check our latest PHOTO GALLERY from our most recent Society Activity.
Check our latest NEWSLETTER for downloading from this site in Adobe Reader (pdf) format.
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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