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Submission deadline: 31 October 2016 Friday 9 March 2018 to Monday 12 March 2018 International Convention Centre, Darling Harbour in Sydney, NSW Australia In 2018 the Society of Australian Genealogists is hosting the 15th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry. Further information
A Newcastle Writer’s Festival event, presented by History Council NSW. With so many online archives and ancestry aids, tracing your family tree is now easier than ever. But what does it all mean? Join host Nancy Cushing, as she and the panel’s three prominent family historians – Melanie Nolan, Tanya Evans and Catharine Coleborne – Read more …
In Kin: A Real People’s History of Our Nation (Hardie Grant) Nick Brodie traces his family tree back to some of the earliest white arrivals in the Australia to uncover a series of stories of hardship and travail, of revival and treasured memory, of individual hope, and of social, economic and cultural achievement. It was Read more …
Tanya Evans’s Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales (NewSouth Books) uses the extensive archives of The Benevolent Society, Australia’s first charity founded in 1813, to reclaim unknown lives and consider the often random nature of betterment and progress.
Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain and Denise Cuthbert, in The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Monash Unversity Publishing), tell the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to its decline at the beginning of the twenty-first. As the rate of adoptions in Australia falls to a historic low, and parliaments Read more …