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MT Zoom 2025
2025-02-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-24 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-03 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-10 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-17 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-31 11:00 - 12:30 (Australia/Brisbane) | 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

Fundamentals of Family History
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 meetings hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-02-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-19 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.

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.
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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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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Scottish Interest Group 2025
2025-03-02 09:30 - 14:00 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
The Scottish Interest Group aims:

To provide assistance to those researching Scottish ancestors.
To provide resources to assist in research; providing opportunities to talk to other researchers; and organising presentations about subjects connected with Scottish genealogy, culture and history.
Via attending the Gaelic Festival each year and not only having a great time talking to everyone about GSQ and the Scottish Group, but to encourage those interested to come along and join us.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 1st Sunday of the odd months of the year, unless otherwise advertised.
2025: 2nd March; 4th May; 6th July; 7th Sept; 2nd Nov.
Topics for 2025 will be:
March 2nd: Lanarkshire – Alistair Henderson
May 4th: Using Scotlands People – Ailsa Corlett
July 6th: Highland Clearence History – Helen Connor
Sept 7th: Using National Records of Scotland Records – Alistair Henderson
Nov 2nd: East Lothian – Ailsa Corlett

The Resource Centre opens at 9:30 am and closes at 2:00 pm.
The meeting commences at 10am and runs for about two hours, with the remaining time for members to conduct their own research.
The meetings are hybrid so that anyone who is unable to attend on the day can still join in with the meeting using Zoom.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.

Contact Convenor Alistair Henderson on scotgroup@gsq.org.au to obtain a Zoom link or further information.

GSQ TAG IT Meetings 2025
2025-03-04 09:00 - 10:30, 2025-04-01 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.

GSQ Members Meeting
2025-03-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The GSQ quarterly Members Meeting will be held by Zoom on March 4th 2025, commencing at 7.30pm
If you have anything you would like to discuss in relation to ideas or suggestions that can assist GSQ to grow and expand, then please bring these up at the meeting.
These meetings are for members to let the Management Committee know what you are thinking about and ways you see for GSQ to improve. This is also time for you to ask the Management Committee any sort of question.
Please send through these details before the meeting so that they can be put on the Agenda.
All that wish to attend, please email president@gsq.org.au to advise you wish to get the Zoom link.

Wednesday morning Zoom meeting hosted by Bobbie Edes
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia

GSQ CLOSURE due to Cyclone Alfred
2025-03-06 - 2025-03-10 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
Closure of GSQ Premises on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of This Week

Due to the current threats posed by Cyclone Alfred, a decision has been made, for the safety of all concerned, to close GSQ’s Resource Centre on Thursday 6 March, Friday 7 March and Saturday 8 March, with the Centre opening again on Tuesday11 March.
My thoughts are with all members as we prepare to face whatever Alfred brings us.

Helen Veivers
President

Family History Tech Interest Group 2025
2025-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtually via Zoom, QLD, Australia
The Family History Technology Group aims:

To assist GSQ members with increasing their knowledge and skills in using technology which can assist with their Genealogical research.
Make members comfortable with Genealogical advancements that are happening in the world.

Meetings:
Meetings are held on the 2nd Sunday of odd months of the year, unless otherwise advertised. Via ZOOM.
2025: 9th March; 11th May; 13th July; 14th Sept; 2nd Nov (2:00 pm – 4:00 pm)
The meeting commences at 10:00 am until 12:00 noon and generally consists of updates which have occurred, anything New; a Presentation and then Discussion on the presentation and problems to be solved.
This group gives opportunities to look at many other technologies that may help you in relation to recording, preserving, and looking at various technology to help you with your family history.
We like to look at and discuss

File management and storage
Various Software Programs especially ones to use with family history
Help in relation to the many Genealogical Website usage.
Common Windows/PC or Mac problems.
Work together as a group to help others overcome issues and also to swap ideas which can assist others.

If you are not a member of GSQ yet, you can come along for 2 meetings before needing to join.
Attendees are asked to contribute a gold coin donation.
Contact Convenors Ailsa Corlett and Helen Connor on FHTech@gsq.org.au for the Zoom Link or further information.

2nd Wednesday Night Zoom 2025
2025-03-12 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 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.

Executive Committee Meeting Dates
2025-03-14 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.

Chinese Research Interest Group 2025
2025-03-16 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
2025-03-16 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.

GSQ Closure for Conference 2025
2025-03-20 00:00 - 23:59 | Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ), 25 Stackpole St, Wishart, Brisbane, QLD, 4122, Australia
GSQ will be closed to all members on Thursday 20th March 2025 to allow the visitors attending the conference to do research at the Resource Centre that day.
The GSQ Resource Centre will be available for members to use on Friday 10am – 3pm and Saturday 12pm – 4pm as usual.
The GSQ Resource Centre will be used for training purposes on Monday 24th March.

German Interest Group 2025
2025-03-30 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.

English Irish Welsh Interest Group 2025
2025-04-06 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.
