Interest Group Convenors Meeting
2025-07-15 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The next meeting for all Interest Group Convenors will be on Tuesday Night 15th July at 7pm
Please come with any questions and ideas you might have, especially relating to your own Interest Group or how the Management Committee can assist you in anyway.
Please email Helen Veivers to advise you are coming so she can forward the Zoom link to you. president@gsq.org.au

Wednesday morning Zoom meetings hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-07-16 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-20 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.

Give Your Past the Best Chance of a Future - FREE to GSQ Members
2025-07-19 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Fleur will bring us a presentation on a new way of storing your family tree and related photos and documents online that is interactive and can easily be shared with family members. Store your family history and your own story for the future, and if you wish, collaborate with other family members to add to your family tree. Simple to use, the WeAre.xyz archive lets you create dynamic content that will get your family interested in participating in the journey of family history!

Presenter:
Fleur Creed
Dr Fleur Creed has been researching her own family history for many years, and is a generational family historian, following in the footsteps of her father. She understands the importance of handing on an interest to the next generation. Fleur holds a Diploma of Family History from UTAS, a Certificate in Genealogical Research Methods from SAG, and is currently working on a Diploma of Family History Studies with SAG. She also works as an academic researcher.

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 19 July 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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Chinese Research Interest Group 2025
2025-07-20 10:00 - 12:00 | 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
2025-07-20 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.

Committee Meeting Dates
2025-07-21 09:00 - 12:00, 2025-08-18 09:00 - 12:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The GSQ Committee meet on the 3rd Monday of each Month between 9am – 12pm
Committee Members will be unavailable during this time period, please leave them a message so they can return your call.

MT Zoom 2025
2025-07-21 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-07-28 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-18 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

4th Wednesday Night Zoom 2025
2025-07-23 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 23rd July 2025 is Jeffrey Madsen:
LOCATION, LOCATION!!

Using Maps and Historical Land Records for Family Research
Finding a place can mean so much to us as we search for knowledge of our ancestors. It is much more than dates on documents but more about why they moved to the places that were named on the documents. Discovering information about these locations connects us to their history.
Various records can help locate different types of places. Location can be a major factor for family historians in helping to round out family stories.
Historical land records can also provide much information about families who purchased land – who and when they purchased, where they were living and even an occupation.

Jeffrey Madsen:
Jeffrey Madsen had a long career in Information Technology using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software to prepare maps for Government, private enterprise and family researchers. He was involved in a family company which provided software, consulting and training services in Geographic Information Systems.
He has used the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) since 1999 to access digitised Parish Maps and, more recently, to research NSW Historical Land Records for property owned by ancestors.
It became evident that this Spatial knowledge could be used in genealogical research. Using maps and investigating areas of historical geography would enhance family stories by finding information beyond names and dates.
He is a Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists and a member of Botany Bay Family History Society and Newcastle Family History Society.

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.

German Interest Group 2025
2025-07-27 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.

Monday Indexing Team
2025-07-28 10:00 - 14:30, 2025-08-11 10:00 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
This time is set aside for the Monday Indexing Team, who work at GSQ on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month from 10am – 2.20pm.
If you do need to have a meeting at GSQ during this time period please be aware of the team being there and keep meetings quiet and conducted as quickly as possible.

Regards
GSQ Indexing Team

GSQ Members Meeting
2025-07-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The next GSQ Members meeting is being held on Monday 28th July at 1pm via Zoom
Please bring along any questions or ideas you might have to help us improve GSQ as it is now.
We are keen to hear about what you would like GSQ to do to help you to continue being a member, what would you like to see we add to the library to help assist you with your research.
Please come along and let us know how you think GSQ is going and of anything we can do to assist YOU as a member of this great team.
Please email president Helen Veivers to advise you will be attending so that she can forward you the link. president@gsq.org.au
See you then.

DNA Clinic 2025
2025-07-30 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.

Finding non-British Subjects in Queensland records
2025-08-02 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
Do you have ancestors from outside the British Isles who were not British Subjects? Even prior to Federation, non-British subjects were subjected to a raft of restrictions which generated genealogical valuable records. This surveillance accelerated after 1901 and during the two World Wars when their movements were closely tracked. As non-British Subjects did not appear on the electoral roll, it is these alternate records which may help you place your ancestors in the absence of census returns. This session will be of interest for anyone who had an ancestor in Queensland for whom naturalisation was not an option.

Presenter:
Hilda Maclean
Dr Hilda Maclean has been investigating cemeteries for over 40 years. In 2007, she received a Churchill Fellowship to study visitor education programs in heritage cemeteries in England, Scotland and Paris. Hilda’s research projects have included German cast iron grave markers in South-east Queensland and the amplification of Scottish identity on headstones. She is the author of the blog cemetrees.wordpress.com

Tickets will close at 8am Saturday 2 August 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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English Irish Welsh Interest Group 2025
2025-08-03 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.

GSQ TAG IT Meetings 2025
2025-08-05 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.

Wednesday morning Zoom meeting hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-08-06 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia

Colonial and Convict Interest Group 2025
2025-08-10 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.

Breaking Down Brick Walls with TheGenealogist - FREE for GSQ Members
2025-08-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
TheGenealogist is a subscription database of which GSQ has two seats. This is also available via MyGSQ for our members to use from home as well as at the GSQ Resource Centre.
It uses a MasterSearch which can help you find very quickly the information you are looking for by narrowing down your search to a particular type of data and further filtering the results to only include certain record sets, years or spellings.
You can search for a specific address by county and street name; search for a person using keywords such as their occupation; search for a family by forename and surname; pinpoint your ancestor’s records using GeoReferenced historic maps; and SmartSearch finds related records for you.
Uncover the secrets to overcoming stumbling blocks in your family history research! Discover new and innovative search strategies to locate those elusive relatives. Explore unique record collections that can tell you more about your ancestors’ lives.

Presenter:
Mark Bayley from TheGenealogist.co.uk
Working as the head of online development for TheGenealogist and also as a Director of S&N British Data Archive, Mark has been involved in many aspects of genealogy and the family business from an early age. In his spare time, he gives talks on tools, techniques and alternative record sets for researching genealogy at events across the country.

Tickets will close at 5pm Tuesday 12 August 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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2nd Wednesday Night Zoom 2025
2025-08-13 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 13th August 2025 will be:

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.

Writing Interest Group 2025
2025-08-17 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.

Tour of National Archives of Australia
2025-08-21 10:00 - 12:00 | National Archives of Australia Qld, 16 Corporate Drive, Cannon Hill, Queensland, 4170, Australia
Enjoy special access at this behind the scenes tour of National Archives of Australia’s Queensland storage facility and learn how Australian Government records are stored, preserved and digitised.

GSQ has arranged with NAA Qld, 16 Corporate Drive, Cannon Hill to conduct a tour of the archives showing how the records are stored, preserved and digitised.
This will take place on 21 August 2025 starting at 10am for 2 hours, with a chance to conduct personal research after the tour has finished.
If we have more than 15 interested, we can conduct two tours. – There will be a General talk regarding the Collection and the tour itself.
When signing up for this event can you please indicate if you are 1st time attendees or experienced researchers.

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GSQ Open Day
2025-08-23 10:00 - 14:00 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
GSQ is holding its Annual OPEN DAY again on
Saturday 23rd August 2025 from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm
Come along to talk to our research assistants and look around our resource centre. See what our members have access to on the GSQ computers as well as what is in the Library – We have LOTS of Books on all topics and countries.
In our car park we will have the following organisations –
National Archives of Australia, Qld State Archives; Brisbane; State Library of Qld; FamilySearch.
All our Interest Groups – Scottish; Chinese; Family History Tech; English, Irish and Wales; Scandinavian; Writing; DNA; Colonial and Convict; German; Wednesday Morning Zoom; Wednesday Night Zoom; and Monday Morning Zoom.
Sausage Sizzle and a Cafe as well as the Moovin’Coffee Van
Second hand Books for sale as well New Books from our Bookshop.
Talks will be held inside the Resource Centre:
11.00 am: Dr Jennifer Harrison – So you want to do family history?
12 Noon: Jan Richardson – Where did they come from? Finding Queenslanders in migration and colonial records.
1.00 pm: Ailsa Corlett – Using GSQ Resources in your Family History Research.
and we will also be running a Raffle with prizes donated from Corrine McMillan, Steven Huang, Kara Cook and Bendigo Bank
All are welcome to come along and enjoy the day and learn about researching your family history.

DNA Interest Group
2025-08-24 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.
