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What's On - Friday 26th February - Thursday 3rd March 2016

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It's a big week coming up! This weekend the Royal Historical Society of Queensland is hosting a day at Marymac Community Hall Annerley looking at stories from the Stephens Area including local Aboriginal history, tramway history, Junction Park and Annerley history, the history of Fairfield and of eminent pioneering families of the locality. on Saturday.  The Brisbane History Group is hosting its AGM and launching a book Brisbane Diseased on Sunday.  Speakers include Jennifer Harrison, Gerald Hugo Rée,  Lee Butterworth and Paul Sayer.  Subjects include: Health officers and maritime quarantine in preSeparation  Queensland, Sex, women and the venereal, Brisbane, 1850-1911, The battle to upgrade the  Brisbane City Morgue and  Last of the great childhood plagues’: Polio in Queensland.  Fascinating stuff indeed. Next week Dr Geoff Morgan will be presenting Validate Your Genealogical Assumptions at both Caboolture and Arana Hills Libraries.  There's also an opportunity next

What's On - Friday 19 February - Thursday 25 February 2016

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Another busy and full week with something for everyone.   If there is something I have missed or an event coming up that you want everyone to know about, just let me know. Enjoy your week everyone!

What's On - Friday 12 February - Thursday 18 February 2016

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Enjoy your gene-week.  Take time to stop and smell the roses or admire the gum blossoms.   There's lots on - from Oral History to Deciphering Old Handwriting.  Break down those brickwalls.  Meet other gene-friends.  Share your research. Help someone.   Enjoy!

What's On - Friday 5 February - Thursday 11 February 2016

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Transforming Tindale - A travelling exhibition from State Library of Queensland (SLQ) - at Arana Hills Library until 20 February The Transforming Tindale exhibition has finally been installed at our library and is attracting a lot of attention which is very pleasing. The exhibition explores the legacy of Norman Tindale’s 1938 anthropological expedition to Aboriginal communities. T hese records are both a source of contention surrounding the treatment of Aboriginal Australians, and a valuable resource for relatives.  If you are not able to visit the library to see the exhibition you can explore the virtual exhibition online here. #genealogyselfie How is your research going this week?  I have ordered and received a couple of inter-library loans through my library which I hope will help me with a couple of roadblocks and/or just give me more information about my ancestors and the lives they lived.   But I do seem to be a bit stuck.  Which is why I'