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Welcome to the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
LATEST NEWS
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SOCIETY members travelled to these Hawkesbury River towns and areas in November 2009. See the GALLERY of photos taken by our member Pauline H and share their discovery of these interesting places. Other great excursions for members are planned for this year. |
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| THE SOCIETY'S membership year runs from 1 January to 31 December. Thus all memberships are now due for renewal. There has been no change in Membership Fees for 2010. Fees remain $25 single membership and $30 family membership. If members require their Journal - "Explorers' Tree" - to be mailed then an additional $5 is required. Membership can be paid at all meetings, at the Springwood Library (when a volunteer is on duty) or by mail to PO Box 97 SPRINGWOOD NSW 2777. Please download a Membership Application (essential for both new AND continuing members) from here. |
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NEXT
MEETING | Friday, 12th February 2010 10.00 am Springwood Civic
Centre upstairs | February General Meeting
Our first meeting of the new year will be held on Friday 12th February 2010 commencing at 10.00 am in the upstairs meeting room above the Civic Centre in Springwood. Our GUEST SPEAKER will be Helen Dickinson, NSW Lands Research Specialist who will talk about the valuable resources at the NSW Lands Dept. in particular those relating to deceased estates and probate. | | NEXT
ACTIVITY | NSW Department of Lands
DPI holdings
Thursday, 4th March 2010 | Thursday, 4th March 2010
The first outing for the year will be before the March General Meeting, on Thursday, 4 March. Following up our talk by Helen Dickinson, Pauline has arranged a tour of the DPI holdings at the NSW Department of Lands in Sydney, with Helen. The cost of the tour will be $20 and our group will travel to Sydney by train, meeting Helen at 11.00 a.m. Pauline will have a sheet ready, at the general meeting, to take down names of those members interested in attending. Pauline is organising this tour, as Don will be away. |
Latest Updates to this site: Events 2010 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
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.
OUR SOCIETY
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.
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 2010 (see under Archive of Events). Members are encouraged to make suggestions & raise concerns.
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 Tuesday & Thursday of each month. Members able to assist may be present on other days without notice.
By arrangement, support in individual research at Springwood Library can be given. Please contact the Society by email Blue Mountains Family History Society inc to arrange date and time.
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.
Ancestry.com (library edition) is available though the six general access computers in the main library, but prior booking of these computers is strongly recommended.
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 1200 books grouped by content. Following a new organisation plan, members led by Joan and Ian are working to improve the organisation of the library area and the resources. When completed a new library catalogue will be available and all resources will be catalogued into new categories for ease of retrieval. BMCC Library 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. However, due to building reconstruction of Katoomba Library, this service has been placed on hold. Arrangements for private research with a Society Volunteer can be made by contacting the Society by email Blue Mountains Family History Society inc or phone 02 4757 2317 to arrange date and time.
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
For further information email bmfhsweb@gmail.com
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