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Bird Feeding Hour at The Polish Place Mount Tamborine What's on offer this coming week in south-east Queensland family and local history wise? Saturday 13 June - 9.00am - 12:30pm - Qld Baptists' Conference Centre QFHS leads the pack with their Ireland to Australia: Researching Your Irish Ancestors seminar - Presenters are Dr Richard Reid and Mary King .   Cost $15 for members $20 for non-members (includes morning tea) To find out more click here. Tuesday 16 June - 6:00-7:30pm - John Oxley Library Reading Room The Vital Track - 150 Years of Railways in Queensland - speakers Greg Hallam, Historian at Queensland Rail, and Dr Geraldine Mate, Senior Curator, Transport and Energy at The Workshops Rail Museum .  Cost ?  Free!  To book click here . Thursday 18 June - 10:00-11:00am - Garden City Library History of the World War II Eagle Farm Airfield Join historian Peter Dunn as he discusses the fascinating history of the Eagle Farm Airfield d...

It's such a lovely big old world and we are so lucky to have the internet.   Have you ever wanted to start family history but didn't know where to begin? Today I learned that the University of Tasmania - right down the bottom of the world - is offering a free course - Introduction to Family History as per here.   To enrol for free you do have to be an  Australian citizen or a student holding a Permanent Humanitarian Visa or with a Permanent Resident Status. And you need to study it in their Spring Semester which starts 8 December.  Applications close 16 December.  But what if you already know a bit about Family History and want to know a bit more? I have enrolled in several courses through the lovely Pharos Tutors  who are pretty much at the top of the world. At the moment I am studying a 3 week course in World War Research with Simon Fowler and it is great.  Yes...THE Simon Fowler! No, not that Simon Fowler...th...