WAGS

WAGS Mothers Day Raffle Winners

Hope everyone had a good Mothers Day including all the daughters, sisters, aunties, nieces, foster carers and many others among us who take on a mothering role.

WAGS Mothers Day Raffle was drawn on Saturday by Thelma CHILTON.

Congratulations to the winners of our two prizes:

Julie Arrowsmith 11056 and Geoff Brade 13928.

British Regiments of Foot in Australia

The Royal Marines served in the Colony between 1788 and 1790, after which the New South Wales Corps (Rum Corps) took over for the 20 years up to 1810.

After the New South Wales Corps were ousted in 1810 there were twenty four British Regiments that served in Australia between 1810 and 1870, two of those doing 2 tours. Of these there were nine regiments that served in Western Australia for varying lengths of time. This list does not include Enrolled Pensioner Guards as such.

Sorry Folks the seminar is now FULL - All places are taken

You could put your name down on a waiting list, in case of cancellations - but no guarantee that there will be any.

Sunday 28 May 1pm-7pm (20 min break at 4pm)

Venue - State Library of WA

Two visiting speakers from the Ulster Historical Foundation in Belfast, who will cover both Republic and Northern Irish records. Fintan Mullan is the Executive Director of the Foundation and Gillian Hunt is the Research Officer.

The program will be available here soon and is likely to include Q&A, Brick Walls, Census Substitutes, Registry of Deeds, Printed sources, 17th century families and the Ulster Plantation.

WA is a BIG State

Genealogy and Family History is alive and well in Country WA. Western Australia covers 2.529 Million km² (976.8 sq mi). WA is the second largest country sub-division in the world. That is a lot of ground to cover for a volunteer organisation, but we do have some success in that space.

The Western Australian Genealogical Society (WAGS) has a diverse membership which includes about 8.5% of our members being resident in country WA.

WAGS Affiliated Societies are present in Albany, Australind, Busselton, Collie, Esperance, Geraldton, Mandurah and Rockingham and each has their own membership (see map below)

WABI Subset - Eastern Goldfields (Cemetery Cards)

This subset of the Western Australian Biographical Index has recently been transcribed and made available on the website of the State Library of Western Australia by the SLWA under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License. This license permits WAGS to make the material available on our website in an interactive, searchable data table (below) with direct links to the original cards on the SLWA website.

Clicking on the surnames will open the original index cards (via links to SLWA website).