WAGS

New Rules Update

A members workshop was held on Saturday 24 March 2018  to discuss and give feedback on the revised Association Rules and By-laws. Some proposed changes were subsequently adopted by the Committee.

The draft revised Rules of Association replacing the previous WAGS Constitution and new draft by-laws, with these latest amendments included, are posted in Members Only>WAGS Business> Constitution.

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As only two members in addition to committee members attended the workshop on 24 March there will not be any further workshops held. It is proposed to convene a General Meeting of the Society on 29 July 2018 for the purpose of formally adopting the new Rules and by-laws. A formal Notice of Meeting will be published closer to the time.

Western Ancestor - March 2018 Issue - in your letterbox soon...

The March 2018 edition of the journal of the Western Australian Genealogical Society is on the way to a letterbox near you - or maybe you just want to read it online.

Members can browse or download the electronic copy in the Member’s Only Section (you will have to log in) of this website under the Journal menu item.

Getting your affairs in order - your 2018  challenge

You've made your Will, you say.  The house, the car, the books, the family albums are all clearly designated for distribution.  Your executors are chosen, your Will is in a safe place.

But what about your online presence? 

"We all have one these days," said Jenni Ibrahim, Convenor of WAGS Irish SIG.  "Email accounts, Facebook, photos on your phone.  Have you made provision for them? Who will responsible for closing them down?  What about your online family tree comprising years of hard work?"

The arrival in Western Australia of the Hougoumont, with its cargo of convicts and Pensioner Guards, marked the end of transportation worldwide. The 9 January 2018 will mark the 150th Anniversary of this event and so the WA Genealogical Society and the Royal WA Historical Society will be holding a series of Joint Presentations and Displays of Artefacts and Photographs of the men who came to the Swan River Colony, both in chains and in Uniform, during the convict era.  Both societies will have two events.

The WA SIG is planning a few exciting changes for 2018.

 We will now cover all people who have settled and lived in this State, and their descendants. 

The Convicts and Enrolled Pensioner Guards are comprehensively covered by their own Special Interest Groups but may also have connections to our group.

We have new dates and times for our quarterly meetings, which are now on the 3rd Sunday in January, April, July and October – Please check the Events Calendar for more details or contact the WA SIG convenor.

For WAGS Members - A little something to keep you busy!

1906-1941 Western Australian Birth Indexes 

Compiled by WAGS volunteers from The West Australian, Western Mail & the Sunday Times newspaper births in the family notices columns, we now have available the 1906-1941 Births Index - in the Indexes and Database section of the Members Only Area (MOA) of the website. You need to log in to view the data.

The BDMs indexing is an ongoing WAGS Project Team effort and will provide additional indexes for the WAGS website as they are completed.