CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Each speaker will speak for 45 minutes with time at the end for questions from the floor.
Friday 12 September 2008
10.00 – 4.00 DDFHS Library open for delegates to visit
12.00 – 3.00 Booksellers/trade tables to set up in Starlite Rooms
3.00 – 6.00 Delegate registration at RSL
3.00 – 7.30 Booksellers/trade tables open for business
6.00 – 8.00 Finger food on The Terrace. Welcome by President DDFHS, Cynthia Foley
Saturday 13 September 2008
8.00 – 8.30 Delegate registration at RSL
8.30 – 8.45 Welcome to Country
Official opening by Mayor of Dubbo, Cr Greg Matthews
Welcome by State President, Pam Valentine
8.45 – 9.45 John Crowe Memorial Address – Dr Janis Wilton
Tyrannies of distance: Tracking immigrant families across cultures, space and time.
9.45 – 10.30 MORNING TEA and Bookseller/ trade tables
10.30 – 11.30 Linda Emery
‘A very remarkable, healthy place’.
First European Settlement on Norfolk Island 1788-1814.
11.30 – 12.00 Chris Yeats- NSW State Records
12.00 – 12.30 World Vital Records
12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH and Booksellers/trade tables
1.30 – 2.30 Warren Mundine
Topic to be advised.
2.30 - 3.30 Cheryl Mongan
Distanced by time and circumstance – Immigration and the Great Irish Famine.
3.30 – 4.00 AFTERNOON TEA and Booksellers/trade tables
4.00 – 5.30 AGM of NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies Inc.
Saturday Night
6.30 for 7.00 Conference Dinner
John Ferry Award
Entertainment by Jason and Chloe. Australian History in Folk Song.
Sunday 14 September 2008
8.30 – 8.45 Welcome back: Introduction to 2008 - 2009 State Committee
8.45 – 9.45 Graeme Hosken
Crossing No-Mans Land: Bridging the gap between family historians and their WWI Digger ancestors.
9.45 – 10.45 Michael Caulfield
Oral history: Australians at War Film Archives
10.45 – 11.15 MORNING TEA and Booksellers/trade tables.
11.15 – 12.15 Cora Num
Monuments, mementos and mortality: Family history in the local community.
12.15 – 1.15 Pat Dargin
Women in the bush: Distance didn’t stop her.
1.15 – 1.25 Call to Wyong for 2009
1.25 – 1.30 Close conference