Chinese Research Interest Group 2025
2025-01-19 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The Chinese Research Interest Group aims:

To provide members with knowledge about family history research of Chinese families in Australia
To share findings, ideas and techniques on successfully researching Chinese ancestors and others

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 3rd Sunday of odd months, unless otherwise advertised. Via ZOOM.
2025: 19th Jan; 16th March; 18th May; 20th July; 21st Sept; 16th Nov.
The meeting commences at 10:00 am until 12:00 noon and are run via Zoom.
The Group is for GSQ members who are interested in researching their Chinese ancestors who have come to Australia or in exploring the life stories of Chinese people in Australia.
Throughout the centuries, many Chinese people have migrated to Australia to pursue various undertakings and to lead interesting lives in diverse places around Australia, from cities to regional areas.
Members of the Group are encouraged to bring examples of problems they are having in tracing various Chinese people, as well as examples of successes they have had with their research.

Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenor Marg Doherty on chineseresearchgroup@gsq.org.au for the Zoom Link or further information.

Scandinavian Interest Group 2025
2025-01-19 12:30 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The Scandinavian Interest Group aims:

To provide assistance to members researching their Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish or Icelandic Ancestors.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 3rd Sunday of the odd months of the year, unless otherwise advertised.
2025: 19th Jan; 16th March; 18th May; 20th July; 21st Sept; 16th Nov.
Please NOTE 18th May 2025 start is at 2:30 pm.

The Resource Centre opens at 12:30 pm and closes at 2:30 pm. Meetings usually commence at 12:30pm and take the form of discussions or guest speakers about Scandinavian research, migration or customs.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.

Contact Convenor Steinar Johansen on scangroup@gsq.org.au for further information.

Advanced Care Planning - FREE to GSQ / QFHS Members
2025-01-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The Statewide Office of Advance Care Planning is a free statewide service (funded by Queensland Health) that helps to promote the important processes of advance care planning.
We:
1. provide information and resources about advance care planning (ACP);
2. receive and review copies of ACP documents from people across Queensland;
3. upload ACP documents to a person’s Queensland Health electronic hospital records;
4. share health care wishes with clinicians involved in a person’s care.
The following topics will be covered in the presentation:
1. What is Advanced Care Planning(ACP)?
2. The benefits of ACP.
3 The Statewide of ACP.
4. ACP Forms in Qld.
Presenter: Jane Caldwell – a Clinical Nurse Consultant
This is a FREE to GSQ /QFHS Members presentation.
Tickets will close at 8am Monday 20th January 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will require to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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Family History in the AI Era
2025-01-25 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Want to find out what AI can do for your family history and what it can’t?
Fiona will show you how AI is changing the game, making it way simpler to explore where you come from and keep your family’s story alive for future generations.

Presenter:
Fiona Brooker

The genealogist who loves to teach.
When I tell people that I am a genealogist, one of the first questions is how far back have you got?
For me it’s not so much how far back have I got, but what I have discovered about my family; the stories, the journeys and the connections like the moment of touching the document at National Archives that my five x great grandparents had signed in the early 1800’s.
I love researching; the process, the working out where to go next and the discoveries.
I am always learning more, from both the research I am doing and through study.
Memories in Time grew from my research and helping other people with their research. Now I’m lucky to be able to do what I love as my full time career. A combination of researching, mentoring, DNA analysis, teaching family history and publishing which I love.

There is nothing better than getting someone else addicted to the hunt for their ancestors.

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 25 Jan 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will require to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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German Interest Group 2025
2025-01-26 10:00 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The German Interest Group aims:

to offer support and research assistance to all who are searching for their German Ancestry.
to encourage and exchange information in an informal setting.
to provide guest speakers when possible to help guide us through the maze of information available to us.
to learn the history of Germany and immigration and why our ancestors chose to leave.
to get to know about German people and their customs.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the Last Sunday of odd months of the year, unless otherwise advertised.
2025: 26th Jan; 30th March; 25th May; 27th July; 28th Sept; 30th Nov.
The Resource Centre opens at 10:00 am until 2:30 pm, allowing time before or after the meeting for research or discussion.
The meetings are hybrid so that anyone who is unable to attend on the day can still join in with the meeting using Zoom.
The German Interest Group is a small, but very knowledgeable group and would love to have you attend their meetings.
Please contact via email in relation to any questions or suggestions that you might have in relation to how the group may assist you with your research.
Any GSQ members who think they may also benefit from listening to the QFHS Central European Group Zoom meetings of which are held on the 1st Sunday in the even months, please contact the convenor so that she can arrange for the link to be sent to you.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenor Lesley Roebig on germangroup@gsq.org.au to obtain a Zoom link or further information.

Australia Day 2025
2025-01-27 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
GSQ will be closed over Australia Day 2025

DNA Clinic 2025
2025-01-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The DNA Clinic help sessions are available to all GSQ members only and will be in your home with a one-on-one virtual meeting through Zoom.
It is held on the 5th Wednesday of the month.
2025: 29th Jan; 30th April; 30th July; 29th Oct.

If you’d like to make an appointment, please email dna@gsq.org.au by the Wednesday prior to the session, stating you would like an appointment and set out your DNA problem.
The appointments will be for approximately 1 hour each on that Wednesday evening between the times of 7pm – 8:30pm. A virtual meeting link will be sent to you the day before the DNA Clinic with your appointed time and the person’s name who will be assisting you.

17th Century British Merchant Tokens - a Family Historians Delight
2025-02-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Merchant tokens generally do not raise the interest of family historians, but look deeper and there is much to like. Between 1648-72, due to a shortage of small coinage, over 20,000 different tokens were issued in the towns and villages throughout England, Ireland & Wales and of these about 14,000 survive today, some more common than others. If your 17th century ancestor issued a token then it is perhaps the only tangible item left of their life that you could possibly hope to own. This connection to real people is why I collect and research them.

Presenter:
Geoff Barber
Geoffrey Barber (Western Australia) has been researching his English family history since about 1983. He maintains his family history web site www.nynne.org as a means of making the his own research more widely available and also with a view to long term preservation.
In 2015 he published the book “Barber alias Nynne: 500 Years of Family History in Rotherfield, Tonbridge and Brighton” and in 2017 his “Manorial Records for Family Historians” was published by Unlock the Past. Geoff also enjoys writing articles for journals and has given talks on topics such as manorial records, tithe maps, DNA, self-publishing and 17th century merchant tokens. Geoff is a longtime member of the Sussex Family History Group and a strong supporter of their Wills Depository project which has over 16,000 Sussex wills transcribed and indexed. He has published several e-books based on wills and his interest in particular surnames in East Sussex. Wills are so important for developing family trees, particularly in the earlier 16th and 17th centuries. In recent times, Geoff has become a collector and researcher of 17th century merchant tokens issued in Sussex and Kent and has written articles and given talks on these. Geoff graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in physics and a Graduate Diploma in computing.

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 1 February 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will required to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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English Irish Welsh Interest Group 2025
2025-02-02 10:00 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The English Irish Welsh interest Group aims:

To assist members with their research into their English, Welsh or Irish ancestry through discussion, guest speakers and acquisition of resources.

Meetings:
Are held on the 1st Sunday of even months of the year, unless otherwise advertised.
2025: 2nd Feb; 6th April; 1st June; 3rd Aug; 5th Oct; 7th Dec.

The Resource Centre opens at 9:30 am and closes at 2:30 pm, the meeting begins at 10:00 am with a discussion followed by one of the members giving a presentation relevant to one of the counties the Group covers. There will be opportunities to ask questions of the group, seek help with a research problems you may have and to share your knowledge. You will have time to do personal research and talk to members.
The meetings are hybrid, so that anyone who is unable to attend on the day can still participate in the meeting via Zoom.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenor Kim Davis on irisheng@gsq.org.au to obtain a Zoom link or further information.

MT Zoom 2025
2025-02-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-10 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Welcome to Monday Morning Zoom

Are you interested in learning more about Genealogy/ Family History?
What can you find regarding records on the various websites, in the books at GSQ, microfiche that have not been digitized, and what you can find in Archives and Libraries.
Do you like to be part of a very relaxed group that LOVE to talk and share information?
GSQ is not opened on a Monday so why not join us from the comfort of your home along with a cuppa and don’t forget the pets.
We have discovered that many of our pets love being on Zoom and enjoy the attention of everyone saying hello to them. So all pets are welcome to come along as well.
We like to discuss events that are occurring in the genealogical world.
As a group we try to help others by offering alternative ideas or websites/records to search when someone has a problem or a brickwall.
So come and join Ailsa and Helen, every Monday from 11am – 12.30pm, and find out more about the joys of belonging to a Genealogical Society.
We do not meet on public holidays, see the event calendar,
If you are not a member of GSQ yet, you can come along for 2 meetings before needing to join.
Send your request to join us to mtzoom@gsq.org.au and we will add you to our list.
Your Hosts are: Ailsa Corlett and Helen Connor

Ailsa Corlett

Helen Connor

GSQ TAG IT Meetings 2025
2025-02-04 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
TAG IT, meet every 1st Tuesday of the month at 9.00am
Link will be sent out to all via Convenor at least the day before.

Fundamentals of Family History
2025-02-04 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-02-11 10:30 - 12:30, 2025-02-18 10:30 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
3 Part Program with Q & A at the end of each session.

Tuesday 4th February 10:30 am – 12:30pm

Session 1

Introduction to what will be covered in the three sessions
General introduction to researching family history: research process
Basic records – Civil registration; census and substitutes
Expanded handout/workbook to include: pedigree chart; family tree charts; list of where to find records from FHF3

Break

First basic record – Civil registration: Australia, UK including England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland – information summarised from Digging Deeper – Overseas Research
Questions and Answers

Tuesday 11th February 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Session 2

Quick Q&A from Session 1
Expanded handout and workbook based on existing handout for FHF2
Practicalities of research and recording the results

Break

Second basic record – census and census substitutes: Australia; UK including England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland – information summarised from Digging Deeper – Overseas Records
Questions and Answers

Tuesday 18th February 10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Session 3

Quick Q&A from Sessions 1 and 2
Finding records, including finding aids, primary and secondary records, citations, repositories
Other sources of information, e.g. newspapers, wills, connecting with others, online and physical resources
Questions and answers

Early Bird Prices:
Members – $70
QFHS & Affliates using the codes – $70
Non Members – $85
Early Bird finishes: Sunday 26th January at midnight
Prices after Early Bird closes:
Members – $80
QFHS & Affiliates using the codes – $80
Non Members – $95

Tickets close on Monday 3 February 2025 at 3:00 pm
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.

Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.

Presenters:

Marg Doherty
Kim Davis
Bev Murray

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Wednesday morning Zoom meeting hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-02-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Wednesday morning Zoom meetings hosted by Bobbie Edes.
Starting at 11am on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month Feb to Nov.

Each of our friendly meetings is run for about 90 minutes or so. The sessions alternate between a Topic PowerPoint presentation with notes on the 1st Wednesday of each month and a help/learning aid session on the 3rd Wednesday with those present all sharing their contributions which are compiled into a handout on that subject so they can be kept for future use. Recently in these mid-moth meetings we have covered military, Australian births, immigration, land records, burials with more planned as well as helping members with their brick walls.
Our topic sessions have recently covered Plotting your ancestors journey using Google Earth, Preparations for visiting an archive, Education in Australia, Using short stories, Timeline creation, Using PowerPoint, and Using PowerPoint to tell your family story in movie format.
**Please email requests to join to: wedmorningzoom@gsq.org.au
2025 – 5th & 19th Feb; 5th & 19th March; 2nd & 16th April; 7th & 21st May; 4th & 18th June; 2nd & 16th July; 6th & 20th Aug; 3rd & 17th Sept; 1st & 15th Oct; 5th & 19th Nov; 3rd Dec Christmas Gathering.

Topic’s on the 1st Wednesday of the Month
Learning Aid/ Brickwall on the 3rd Wednesday of the Month.

Colonial and Convict Interest Group 2025
2025-02-09 10:00 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The Colonial and Convict Interest Group aims:

to provide a specialist forum for members with a particular interest in the history of settlement from 1788 through the colonial period, before the colonies united to become the nation of Australia in 1901.
to seek to collaboratively explore all aspects of this fascinating period of our history and our colonial heritage, Develop insights into your ancestors’ life experiences, including the horrors of transportation. Join, research, learn and share information. Hear the stories of others.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 2nd Sunday of even months of the year unless advised.
The Resource Centre opens at 10.00am and closes at 2.30pm. The meeting begins at 10:00 am until 12 noon, to allow members to conduct research after the meeting.
The Annual General Meeting of the Group is held in February each year.
The meetings are Hybrid, so that those unable to attend on the day can still join in the meeting via Zoom.

2025: 9th Feb; 13th April; 8th June; 10th Aug; 12th Oct; 14th Dec;
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenor Bev Murray on CandC@gsq.org.au to obtain a link for Zoom or further information.

2nd Wednesday Night Zoom 2025
2025-02-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
GSQ extends its invitation to everyone that is interested in learning or finding out more about Genealogical Research to attend the 2nd and 4th Wednesday Nights of the month,
via Zoom starting at 7pm.
You do not have to be a member of GSQ in order to come along, they are FREE.

Are you interested in knowing about Family History, What does it involve, How can I find out about records available, How do I go about doing Research, Would like to listen to some experts ?
If these are questions you have, then please come along to our Wednesday Night Zooms. It is a self help group as well so that you can offer solutions/ideas/web sites/books and knowledge to anyone attending. Attendees are asked to participate in the 2nd Wednesday Night topic, thus sharing information about our ancestors.
The 2nd Wednesday Nights are topic based plus I have a Problem! night. (Please send in these problems or questions at least a week before the meeting)
The 4th Wednesday Nights we have a guest speaker talking on a large variety of topics that are involved in Family History of some sort.
These meetings are FREE to attend, but a donation is always welcomed to help sponsor subscriptions to various sites.
The topic for Discussion for this 2nd Wednesday Night 12th February 2025 will be “GEDCOM” – a short demonstration on what it is and how to use it will be shown, then questions in relation to Have you used it to transfer your genealogical data from one program to another – was it successful or not; what troubles if any did you have; what would you like to see it be able to do for you in the future ?
To attend, please email wedpmzoom@gsq.org.au to advise you would like to be added to the attendee list. This will enable us to send you the Zoom link as well as information each month on what is happening.

Your hosts for the meetings are:

Ailsa Corlett

Fleur Creed

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 has completed the SAG Certificate of Genealogical Studies, as well as 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.

Executive Committee Meeting Dates
2025-02-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The GSQ Executive Committee met on the Friday before the Committee Meetings which is the 3rd Monday of the month.
All meetings are held between 9am – 12pm and Committee Members will be unavailable during that time. Please just leave them a message and they will return your call once finished.

Foreign footprints on the Victorian goldfields
2025-02-15 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Raffaello Carboni wrote that, “Foreigners From All Quarters Of The Globe And Of The Diggings, Came To Inquire From Me What Was The Matter Concerning So Much Excitement As Then Prevailed On Ballaarat. I translated for them the news from our ‘Ballaarat Times’, or from the ‘Geelong Advertiser’s’ clever correspondent.” Raffaello was a translator for non-English speaking residents of the gold diggings during the Eureka Affair of 1854. His personal letters after Eureka to William Henry Archer and Father Patrick Smythe in December 1854 (after the battle) are partly in English, partly Italian, with asides in the margins where he uses some French and German language. Raffaello was multilingual, as probably were others too, amongst the European diggers on the goldfields. Australia as early as the momentous gold rushes of the 1850s was a truly multicultural country. Over 30 different nationalities could be found and heard on the Eureka Diggings at the time of the rebellion. This presentation is about people of different nationalities who were on the Victorian goldfields between 1851 and 1871. Although it concentrates on the central goldfields of Victoria, it applies equally to other goldfields and locations where non-English speakers gathered.

Presenter:
Dr Dorothy Wickham
Dorothy Wickham is a director of a boutique publishing house BHS Publishing. She is a professional historian, educator, and author who is passionate about innovation, digitization, exploring new approaches, and making history widely available to a greater audience. Her Fellowship at Griffith University involved researching the Artemisia, and she became interested in learning more about the people on that vessel that landed in Moreton Bay in December 1848. She has recently co-authored Rescue Refuge & Reform: Voices of Suffering and Survival with Frank Golding, a significant publication about the lesser-known institutions in and around the location of Ballarat, Victoria, and the forgotten women and children that used them. Dorothy has written, designed, published, and authored many books and book chapters about a diverse range of themes and topics including women and feminist histories. She has been awarded many accolades for her service to the community and history and through her writing such as The Eureka Encyclopedia, overall winner of the 2005 Victorian Community History Awards, and Women of the Diggings: Ballarat 1854, commended in 2010. She has overseen many diverse projects and collaborative efforts, including consultancies with local councils, historical groups, educational research projects, and universities.

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 15 February 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will require to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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Writing Interest Group 2025
2025-02-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The Writing Interest Group aims:

to provide a forum in which members can learn more about the writing, editing, and publishing processes.
meetings will include discussion and presentations. Guest speakers will be invited from time to time.
members are invited to submit pieces of writing for comment and suggestions by other members.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 3rd Sunday of even months of the year, unless otherwise advertised. Via ZOOM.
2025: 16th Feb; 20th April; 15th June; 17th Aug; 19th Oct.
The Writing Group was formed in 2012 and grew out of two education sessions presented in 2011. We meet five times per year except December. From our beginnings as a small cohort of 10 members to a regular attendance of between 20-30, the group’s activities have also evolved.
As at June 2021 our meetings are held virtually via Zoom from 10am to 12 noon. It is hoped that we can have a mix of Zoom and face-to-face meetings in the future to provide members with the opportunity to do some personal research as well as engage with other members over morning tea and lunch, as well as meet the needs of those members who do not use Zoom.
The format for the meeting varies depending on the main topic to be discussed. Regular features include short practice sessions on a random topic; review of writing submitted by members in advance; an opportunity for members to share their achievements. Main topics we have covered include grammar, writing and style, evidence and proof, citation and referencing, copyright, different formats and structures for family histories, and many more. We have had guest speakers from time to time.
Members are encouraged to share their writing as group members may be able to provide suggestions for enhancing the style, format, etc. All comments are constructive, and the writer has discretion on whether to accept them or not. It does help, however, to have input from those not connected with a story.
Group members are at different stages of their writing; some are published authors, whereas others are just beginning. It is exciting to note that most of the winners of the Joan Reese Memorial Short Story Competition are members of the Writing Group. We regularly review how the group operates in order to meet the differing needs of beginning and more experienced writers.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
At present meetings are being held via Zoom.

Contact Convenor Pauline Williams on writing@gsq.org.au for the Zoom Link or further Information.

Wednesday morning Zoom meetings hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-02-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia

The Wall Family: weaving the threads of memories
2025-02-22 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The writing process for her family history book.
I didn’t know much about my father’s Wall family, having been born in Papua New Guinea and growing up on remote plantations. Once I was sent to boarding school in Australia, I grew to know my father’s immediate family, his father, and siblings but apart from them they were a mystery. In 2018, I started researching my father’s Wall family. One cousin led to another before I met Graham Wall, a distant cousin, who had researched the Walls for nearly 20 years—prior to the internet. Graham’s sources were mostly direct from family descendants as well as BDM etc.

Presenter:
Christine Leonard
Christine is an Australian indie author who was born in Papua New Guinea
and grew up on the island of Bougainville.
A large part of her working life was in community development and international aid projects in the Asia Pacific Region. Christine is drawn to social history and non-fiction. She is a regular blogger with the Genealogy Society of Queensland (GSQ) and other family history sites. Her first serious writing project was a family history of her paternal Wall family, featuring William Wall who was transported in 1835 to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land. This book titled “The Wall Family weaving the threads of memories” is in its second print run with E-books available through Kobo and the Leonard Stories website. A recent project saw Christine editing, and contributing with additional stories, to the memoir written by the late Fr Franz Miltrup sm, a German priest who spent 50 years in Bougainville from 1938. Fr Miltrup died in 1996 after writing his memoir in Tok Pisin. Christine helped translate the manuscript into English, after which she edited it, to publish “When the Garamuts Beat—A Memoir Of Fifty Years In Bougainville”. This title is available through the Leonard Stories website. In between short stories, and blogs, she edits a 64-page quarterly journal for the PNG Association of Australia called PNG Kundu .You can read more about Christine by visiting her website www.leonardstories

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 22 February 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will require to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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DNA Interest Group
2025-02-23 09:30 - 13:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The DNA Interest Group aims:

The DNA Group launched in May 2015 to assist members understand how DNA works and how it can assist you with your research.

Meetings:
Are held on the 4th Sunday of even months and begin at 9:30am sharp, with the Zoom room open to login from about 9:15am. These can be long meetings and can go up to 1.30pm depending on needs.
2025: 23rd Feb; 27th April; 22nd June; 24th Aug; 26th Oct.
GSQ members are welcome to join our meetings as well as our closed Facebook group. Because our meetings are usually attended by 30 – 40 members we meet currently only via Zoom and an invitation with the meeting link goes out a few days before the event.
During the meeting we have a presentation on recent updates in the DNA world, usually one other presentation and Q&A sessions.
Another feature of the group is the Mentoring sessions where those attending decide which Zoom room they’d like to join to learn more about a specific subject ie DNA general, DNA Painter, Clustering, Y-DNA/FTDNA, MyHeritage/23&Me/Ancestry etc.
DNA Clinic:
GSQ members with DNA problems can arrange a one-on-one virtual help session with one of our admin team during our DNA Clinic nights on the 5th Wednesday of specific months from 7 – 8:30pm. Dates can be found in the GSQ Events calendar.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenor Greg Carlill on dna@gsq.org.au to be sent the Zoom link or further information.

Interest Group Convenors Meeting
2025-02-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
GSQ is holding it’s next Interest Group Convenors meeting on Monday 24th February, commencing at 7.30pm via Zoom.
It is advisable for all of the GSQ Interest Group Convenors to attend this meeting. This allows you to ask questions or relay information about your group that you might have.
Please advise via email to president@gsq.org.au that you are going to attend and would like the Zoom link to be forwarded to you.

Spotlight: GSQ's Interest groups: Helping your research - FREE to Members
2025-02-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Have you ever wondered what goes on at GSQ Interest Group meetings?
Do you know what records are available at GSQ that relate to your country or people of interest?
GSQ Interest Groups can help you with your research – maybe even help to break down that Brickwall you have.
Come and listen to each of the groups representatives talk about their particular group. Learn from them what they do and discuss and what records are available to help you.
GSQ has 9 Interest Groups and 3 Zoom Groups. Each group will explain in 15 minutes just what they do and how they can assist you. – Chinese; Colonial and Convict; DNA; English/Irish/Welsh;FHTech; German; Scandinavian’ Scottish; Writing – plus Monday Morning Zoom; Wednesday Morning Zoom; Wednesday Night Zoom.
Presentations will be from the following groups:
Chinese
Colonial and Convict
DNA
English/Irish/Welsh
FHTech
German
Scottish
Writing
Monday Morning Zoom
Wednesday Morning Zoom
Wednesday Night Zoom
GSQ Blogs

This is a FREE event for all GSQ/ QFHS Members.
Tickets will close at 8am Tuesday 25 February 2025

The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
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4th Wednesday Night Zoom 2025
2025-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
GSQ extends its invitation to everyone that is interested in learning or finding out more about Genealogical Research to attend the 2nd and 4th Wednesday Nights of the month,
via Zoom starting at 7pm.
You do not have to be a member of GSQ in order to come along, they are FREE.

Are you interested in knowing about Family History, What does it involve, How can I find out about records available, How do I go about doing Research, Would like to listen to some experts ?
The 4th Wednesday Nights we have a guest speaker talking on a large variety of topics that are involved in Family History of some sort.
These meetings are FREE to attend, but a donation is always welcomed to help sponsor subscriptions to various sites.

The Guest Speaker for this 4th Wednesday Night 26th February 2025 is Lee Boehm.
Lee Boehm:
Lee Boehm was born in Melbourne and raised near the beach in Adelaide. After leaving school she joined the Army where she served as a clerk until after her three children were born. She then started a career with the Australian Public Service and served in many roles over more than 20 years.
In 2025, Lee has three adult children and four grandchildren, located across Queensland and New South Wales, and travels to new destinations to live every three years with her beloved husband who is still a serving member of the Australian Army.
As well as writing, Lee enjoys researching family history, making photo-books, reading, watching movies and series of many genres, and the company of her German shepherd dog and Siamese cat.
Lee’s first book, Paterson’s Plains, was published in September 2023, and Vron in 2024.
About the books:
Paterson’s Plains
Born in Liverpool Ann Clark resorts to theft to save her father’s life but finds herself on the other side of the world at the Parramatta Gaol.
Private Alexander ‘Sandy’ McKenzie from the Scottish Highlands is a career soldier who finds himself in Sydney with his Commanding Officer and now Colonial Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Thinking that love had passed him by he falls for the pregnant convict girl who catches his eye in the grounds of Parramatta Gaol.
And so begins a saga that takes the reader to Sydney, Newcastle and Launceston from 1810 until 1839 as the story of Ann and her children comes to life.
This is a story of love, loss and courage during the forming of a Nation.
Read about the incredible lives of everyday people who happened to live at the same time as many of Australia’s prominent historical characters.
Their story is interwoven with those already well known in Australian history.
Vron
1832 – John, from humble beginnings is working as a footman at Lambeth Palace when he is unwittingly set up for a crime he would never have thought of committing.
1841 – Amelia is living in poverty on the streets of Edinburgh but makes a plan to escape her lot and travel to the land of hopes and dreams that she keeps hearing about. Amelia witnesses Australia’s most important textile, the Rajah quilt being given to Lady Jane Franklin in 1841.
Fate throws them together at the expansive colonial estate of Vron near Launceston in Van Diemen’s Land. But on their path to happiness, they must face the cruelties and hardships of the convict system. They eventually become some of the first settlers of Bishopsbourne and witness the changing tide in colonial politics and the birth of a new nation.
Read about two very different characters who were thrown together and made a life for themselves, better than they could ever have imagined in Britain. The story of the Church of England’s beginnings in Tasmania unfolds and you will learn about many of the interesting early church characters, the early politicians and landowners, as well as the story of Christ College which is the oldest tertiary institution in Australia and is now a residential college of the University of Tasmania.
This story is based on the true life story of the author’s third great grandparents.
The Journey
1845 – Disenchanted by the poverty in their native Prussia, Fritz and Ilse Boehm take up the offer of free passage to join Pastor Kavel’s congregation at Light Pass in the newly formed South Australia.
1868 – Henry Luhrs is employed by Gottleib Klemke to help on his Trek from Light Pass to the Riverina. But Henry is in love and travels back home to marry his beloved Maria.
1883 – The Luhrs family of Henry, Maria and their children, move to Walla Walla north of Albury to meet up with family and friends from Henry’s first Trek.
1887 – Traugott and Eleanore Boehm and their children follow the Luhrs’ to Walla Walla, along with Eleanore’s sister Selma and her husband Christian Damschke, and her brother Bill Joppich and his wife Anna.
Read about the lives of the early German settlers and their migration across the country; and the challenges and joys that they encountered in their everyday lives, set against the politics and changes of the day.

To attend, please email wedpmzoom@gsq.org.au to advise you would like to be added to the attendee list. This will enable us to send you the Zoom link as well as information each month on what is occurring.

Your hosts for the meetings are:

Ailsa Corlett

Fleur Creed

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 has completed the SAG Certificate of Genealogical Studies, as well as 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.

Researching lives of Queenslanders in the 1800s
2025-03-01 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The Harry Gentle Resource Centre and Biographical Dictionary.
Griffith University’s Harry Gentle Resource Centre (HGRC) has recently launched a Dictionary of Biography concentrating on First Peoples, soldiers, convicts and early settlers of Queensland. However, the HGRC is much more than a Dictionary of Biography to which members of the public are invited to submit entries. The centre also provides visiting fellowships to academic, professional and local historians to undertake projects on colonial Queensland and Queenslanders which are published on the HGRC website. Harry Gentle’s wish was to create a centre focused on people, groups and organisations that are not usually the subject of academic study and dictionaries of biography: First Nations people and communities; convicts and free-born; sailors and settlers; faith leaders and the military – the ‘ordinary’ people of the area that became known as Queensland in 1859.

Presenter:
Jan Richardson
Queensland historian Jan Richardson specialises in the pre-Separation history of Moreton Bay, focusing on biographical and genealogical research of early residents. A Visiting Fellow with Griffith University’s Harry Gentle Resource Centre in 2020-2021, she created a database of female convicts and ex-convicts, along with their husbands, partners and children, who were some of Queensland’s first settlers following the closure of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1839. Jan is currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University researching the lives of non-Indigenous ethnic minorities, including Mauritian convicts and Chinese indentured labourers, who arrived in Queensland during the pre-Separation period.

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 1 March 2025
The link is included in your registration payment – Please make sure you retain this.
Registrants will be able to view the recording for the following month.
QFHS and any GSQ Affiliate members you will require to put in your Member No or Branch as well as the code given to you to use.

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