Meetings & Activities

Meetings & Activities

Our monthly meetings are informative evenings, with either a guest speaker or one or more members presenting a subject of interest to family historians.

Our meetings are held at 7.30 pm on the 4th Thursday of the month. For the foreseeable future our meetings will be held in the Uniting Church, Brantome Street, Gisborne .

Members - Free.

Visitors welcome - $2.00 donation.

We also run occasional courses in family history research.

The 2022 Events Diary provides a summary of forthcoming events.

Resources

Beginning 1st March our rooms will be open every Tuesday for both GGG members and the general public from 10am till 1.00pm. There will be a GGG member present but no help will be available.

Research Assistance

GGG Volunteers are in attendance in the Family History Room on Thursday afternoons between 2.00pm and 5.00pm.

GGG volunteers are available to assist members and visitors to undertake research using the resources in the Family History Room.

The Gisborne Genealogical Group does not undertake research for people. Our aim is to foster interest in family history research and to continue to build our collection of resources for individual family history researchers.

Researchers seeking information about individuals or families who may have previously lived in the Gisborne or Mount Macedon districts should contact the Gisborne & Mount Macedon Districts Historical Society.

2022 Events Diary

Annual Stocktake & Cleanup Day

29 January 2022 (Sat)

Starting at 9am

Genealogy Workshops

1^st Saturday of the month. These run for 2 hours, from 10.00am to 12 Noon. Numbers are limited to 15 people. Cost is $10 for GGG Members, $15 for non-members.

Many of the workshops will be exploring various useful genealogy websites in detail. Some will be free sites, others are subscription sites. A GGG member will lead each workshop.

For all bookings and payments please contact

Lorna Jackson 0402 091 034

or email lorna_jackson@bigpond.com

Saturday 5th March

National Archives of Australia

Julie Dworak

Saturday 2nd April

Using Family Search

Julie Dworak

Saturday 7th May

Using Maps in Genealogy

Lynley Hall

Saturday 4th June

Deciphering Handwriting

Kathleen Neale

Saturday 2nd July

Using TROVE

Wayne Brown

Saturday 6th August

Local History and Genealogy

Lynley Hall

Saturday 3rd September

Improving your computer skills

Julie Dworak

Saturday 1st October

Using Directories

Lynley Hall

Saturday 5th November

The National Archives (UK)

Heather Tumber

BUS TRIPS/OUTINGS

20th April (Wed)

Ballarat

PROV (New Centre)

and places of interest

10th September

Bendigo

Places of interest

Contact Mary for bookings

03 5428 3887

numbers limited