FHWA

Help is at hand as FHWA Interest Groups go virtual 

As the virus lock-down intensifies, FamilyHistoryWA gears up to provide its servicies and activities online to members.

Interest Groups, Writers, Family Tree Maker User Group, The Master Genealogist Special Interest Group and more are meeting and arranging presentations.

FHWA Activities are also on the move to online formats:  Researching your WA Ancestors is the first on April 5.

Some of the upcoming events:

Organising your records Tuesday April 7 and more.

Online coffee morning  Wednesday, April 8

Check for more upcoming Events.  Check for events and information also on our Facebook discussion page.

Not a member of FamilyHistoryWA yet?  Join us here.

Writers Group Wednesday Q & A 

join the FHWA Writers Group online ifora general writing question and answer discussion. If you have any Show and Tell please share it with us. We will critique our stories by email.

Wednesday April 1, at 10am - 12.30 pm.  Book your place here.  Or check for more upcoming Events.

Not a member yet?  Join us here.

Treasure hunt

Troving through Trove  FHWA IT Manager Chris Harris has unearthed many weird and wonderful gems.

So much so, she has set up a blog to share her findings and lift our spirits.

Surviving the pandemic one laugh at a time, Chris says she created this to beat the self isolation boredom and blues.

See for yourself at Treasures from Trove or look out for Chris's posts on the FamilyHistoryWA on Facebook.

FHWA Projects team works on  

We can't see them, but the FamilyHistoryWA Projects team is working hard to help you continue building your family trees.

There is new data being added to some of the existing databases, and some new indexes being prepared, including the Can you help column of the West Australlian, and an index to the Irish Scene magazine.

Today's featured database is the WA Birth records from 1906 to 1942.  This contains over 80,000 indexed birth records from The West Australian, The Western Mail and the Sunday Times.  Each record is linked to Trove where you can find the original newspaper notice.

Only FHWA members can view this the WA Births database.  Not a member?  Join here.

State Library of WA to the rescue

Our super State Library, although its doors are closed, is still open online.  And for Family History researchers there is a wealth of resources to tap in to.

Eresources Ancestry Library, British Library Newspapers, The West Australian, hundreds of ebooks and films can be accessed with your State Library card.

Haven't got one?  Membership if free for all WA residents. You can register online here.

Video Meetings

The team at FHWA is going to launch a series of on-line video Training/Q&A/Discussion meetings using Google Meet for FHWA Members.

We can have up to 100 people in a session, though that does mean that most people will have to have their microphones muted and ask questions via the Chat box.

To get prepared you will need to have a speaker plugged into your PC. That could be in the form of a headset (pictured) which also has an inbuilt microphone. If you don't have a microphone you will only be able to type questions. A webcam is nice to have but not essential. It really only allows others to see the person speaking. Data presented will come from the presenters' screen. Most reasonably modern laptops have webcam, speaker and microphone built in.

Library and Research Centre: COVID-19 Response

To protect the health of our Volunteers, Members, and Visitors the Society has decided to close the FHWA Library and Research Centre from 5pm on Saturday, 21st March until the end of May.  At that point we will review the situation and see if we need to remain closed or if we can resume operating the library again.