Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc.
Sunday, Mar 09th
Last update10:27:17 PM
New Website Launched today
At the end of the WAGS Computer Group meeting, CIG attendees and visitors from the Western Australian Special Interest Group, plus some especially invited members, were given a demonstration of the new WAGS web project:
11th Battalion A.I.F. - Cheops Pyramid website
Last Updated on Saturday, 08 March 2014 23:28
Special Library Display, March 2014
There is more to this image than meets the eye - keep watching for a special announcement.
Our ever busy Librarian has been gathering the troops.
We now have on display our the newly acquired image of the 11th Battalion A.I.F. on the Great Pyramid of Giza (Cheops). This iconic photo will soon be hanging in the Library, but for the moment is part of the monthly library display table along with some of the military books available in the WAGS Library. See image below...
Last Updated on Saturday, 08 March 2014 22:26
2014 is Homecoming Year
A Western Australian contribution to The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is being submitted by the WAGS Scottish Interest Group (SIG), for James Drummond (1784-1863). This portrait by Mary Moore hangs in the Agricultural Hall of Fame at the Perth Showgrounds.
James Drummond arrived with Governor Stirling in 1829 at the Swan River Colony on the Parmelia. Drummond was soon following his passion for botany, initially as the Government Naturalist looking after the government gardens until he was officially appointed as the Government Botanist.
The WAGS Scottish group has an enthusiastic team of willing embroiders but there is a need for experienced embroiders who could guide the group with some of the more intricate sections. The tapestry pattern is below...
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 23:19
The Western Australian Genealogical Society Inc. (WAGS)
6/48 May Street, Bayswater, Western Australia 6053
Last Updated on Saturday, 23 November 2013 22:09
New Associate Members
Welcome to the Old and the New
Two new Local History collections libraries from both ends of the city have joined WAGS as Associate Members.
To the south in the old port City of Fremantle, the Local History Library has joined WAGS.
To the North, in the new and thriving City of Joondalup, the Local and Family History Library has also joined WAGS.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 February 2014 13:05
South West Churches - Baptismal Registers Index
Parish of Augusta-Margaret River, Diocese of Bunbury - This index covers churches across the South-West of Western Australia from Augusta in the south, north to Metricup.
Now available in the Members Only Area (MOA) the index includes details of interest to the family historian, and covers the following 7 churches...
Last Updated on Thursday, 06 February 2014 22:07
WA History in the making
Have you had a look at our WA Lonely Graves website yet?
The website has been going ahead in leaps and bounds, thanks to some hard working WAGS members beavering away in the background. We have now uploaded 420+ images for surnames from each of the letters in the alphabet (except for the X's, Y's and Z's for which we do not have any images).
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 20:47