Friday 10.30am

Historian: Cathy Dunn

Early Australian Colonial Deaths, Burials and Headstones 1788 - 1810: Includes Old Sydney Burial Ground and Norfolk Island.
Cathy Dunn is a member of the Professional Historian Association of NSW, author of many history publications - South Coast Aboriginal families, Milton Ulladulla cemeteries, convicts & others and Early Australian Colonial History. Cathy is also the researching editor of the Milton Ulladulla History Website which includes BDMs, aboriginal, cemetery, war records and others.

Friday 12.00 noon

Gould Genealogy and Archive CD Books Australia: Alan Phillips

World Vital Records

Alan will speak on Unlocking Government & Police Gazettes and high speed master index searching of Archive CD Books Australia products. He will also speak on the entry to Australia of World Vital Records - the new force in online content delivery

World Vital Records is developing the best online genealogy product in Australia and New Zealand.

Friday 2.30pm

Peter Kettle: Convenor of the Sydney DPS

The Ryerson Index: Peter Kettle will demonstrate how to use this wonderful resource, an index to death notices published in the Sydney Morning Herald from the 1970s to the current date, as well as give a history of its genesis & a look behind the scenes at the indexing process. All of the Shoalhaven Newspapers are part of the Ryerson Index

Saturday 10.00am

Alan Murrin

New means of preserving photos and documents which covers scanning, covering and archiving.

Saturday 11.30am

State Records Office
Gail Davis

Death, death, death: Gail will speaking about probate, deceased estate, Intestate estate, inquest and other related records. Gail Davis was employed as an archivist by the then Archives Office of NSW in the 1980s and worked in many sections of the organisation. She was the chief indexer on the Bicentennial Project which indexed the Colonial Secretary's Correspondence 1788-1825.

After finishing work on the project she then became Senior Archivist Research where she has had extensive experience in public access. She is currently Senior Archivist Research and Publications at State Records and has written a number of guides and finding aides including Using the Archives Resources Kit and A Guide to NSW Archives relating to Federation and the new Convict Guide.

Saturday 1pm

Alison Spencer

'A Passion for Postcards' This presentation explores the history of postcards, with specific reference to the Joyce Cole Collection held at Penrith City Library. This collection contains over 170 postcards of the Penrith area from the turn of the nineteenth century to present day. A small selection of Shoalhaven Post Cards will be included in this presentation. Alison is the curator of the Photographic Collection at Penrith City Library.

Saturday 2.30pm

Cora Num

Irish Resources on the Internet Cora Num has been writing and publishing quality Australian genealogy guides since 1995.