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Williams/Lee Steere Publication Prize 

Publications about Western Australian history, published between June 2019 and June 2020 are eligible for This prize offered by History West.

See here for all of the details and entry form.  Entries close Last Friday June 2020.

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.

Let's keep isolation in its box.  

You don't have to spend the weekend alone.  Join other FHWA members online this weekend.

Book for as many sessions as you choose. These are very casual virtual catch ups - no agenda, no set topics. It's just great to see old friends and to make new ones.

We will try to keep each session pretty small so that everyone can easily participate. You will receive an email an hour or two before the session containing the link to the video conference. Just click and join.

If you are the first one to join, just wait online and others will join in progressively.
Four sessions will be held between Saturday 28 March 2020 11:00 AM and Sunday 29 March 2020 3:00 PM

 Book here: at Events. 

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.

DNA DISCUSSION

Our second ever online video conference will be moderated by Neil Bradley. Book now in TryBooking via the Events tab.

When you have booked, on Thursday morning you will receive an email containing a Google Meet invitation code. Simply click the code in the email to join the meeting.

Feel free to join the meeting up to 30 minutes ahead of time if you are concerned about using this technology. We will guide you through the process. If you try to join but have no luck, wait 5 minutes and then try again.

This event is for MEMBERS of FHWA only.

Here is a direct link to the TryBooking page for the DNA Discussion - https://www.trybooking.com/BJGHA

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.