GSQ would like to invite anyone interested in Genealogical Research to attend the

2nd and 4th Wednesday nights, via Zoom

If you cannot get to GSQ; or working during the day; unable to attend the other Zoom meetings; and just want a bit of help with your research, then the Wednesday nights might be just what you are looking for.

Housing for People of Small Means: Worker’s Dwelling Act 1909

On 22 December 1909, the Queensland government passed “An Act to Enable the Government to Assist Person in Receipt of Small Incomes to Provide Homes for Themselves”. This provided a means for working class families to acquire a low interest mortgage to construct their home. the first home was built in 1910 and by the late 1920’s, 23,515 homes had been built under the scheme. There were strict requirement to access the scheme, the type of home to be built, how it was to be insured and maintained.

Come and listen to Helen V Smith talk and discuss about this scheme. It will relate to many of our parents or grandparents and how we grew up and lived.

Helen is a speaker, DNA specialist, researcher, and author with a strong interest in medical and social history. She has spoken in person and online in every state and territory in Australia, and internationally in Canada, USA, New Zealand and England, on 15 Unlock the Past cruises and has regularly presented for legacy Family webinars. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild.

The meeting is hosted by Ailsa Corlett and Fleur Creed, and it is a self help group in which you pose your questions or problems and others within the group offer their ideas, web sites, books and knowledge on where next you might go to find your answers.

Ailsa has always been interested in family history, starting in 1989 after a trip to Central Otago and seeing photos and dresses of her Paternal ancestors in the Cromwell Museum. Being the eldest grandchild, her grandmother also told her stories and she obtained many of those wonderful little trinkets that get handed out.
Worked as a professional genealogist in the 1990’s specialising in NZ research for Australians. She was accredited under AAGRA. Now retired is very involved with GSQ and helps to run the website, the Monday and Wednesday Zooms as well as the FHTech group.

Fleur developed an interest in family history from her father, who was active in family history research, also writing books about the early settlers of the Queanbeyan, NSW district prior to the selection of the Limestone Plains as the site for the Federal Capital. Her ancestors came from England, Scotland and Ireland, and Africa via America, and include convicts, assisted immigrants and some free settlers. She is currently working on the SAG Certificate of Genealogical Studies, and has completed the Diploma of Family History at UTAS. Fleur has a PhD on the topic, “Australian churches building social capital in their local communities” and currently works part-time as an academic researcher. She also operates a Facebook group about the history the early settlers of the tiny town in the North Burnett where she and her husband are turning a little timber church into their home.

The 4th Wednesday Night is for you to come and listen to a Guest Speaker – please come as they are very enjoyable and knowledgeable people sharing information with us all.

Please send your name, email and any questions to wedpmzoom@gsq.org.au so that a link can be sent to you.
The link will be sent out on the Monday night.