A Special Event with Guest Speaker John Graham
​This Event is open to both GCFHS members and the general public, bookings are essential as numbers will be limited. Registration is now open.

Seminar Details

​Day:    Saturday
​Date:   24th November  2018
​Time:   1.00 pm to 4.00 pm

Location:  Upstairs Room 1 
Bicentennial Building
833 Nerang-Southport Road
Nerang  Qld  4211

Seminar Price:
GCFHS Members $15.00
​Non-Members $20.00
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THE RYERSON INDEX
Learn How to Search for a recent death notice or obituary in Australian Newspapers up to 2019
&
"Australian Free Settlements in the 1820's"
​LEARN HOW TO SEARCH THE RYERSON INDEX
Looking for a recent death notice or obituary in Australian Newspapers ?
341 Newspapers with almost 7 million entries  1803 - 2019​
  • The Ryerson Index is a free index to death notices in Australian newspapers from 1803 to the present, including funeral notices, and some probate notices and obituaries.
    In this interactive talk John will demonstrate the features of the website. 

​“Australian Free Settlements in the 1820's” 
  • Free settlements founded in Australia in the 1820s, a decade of expansion in Australia, were in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and Victoria. John’s talk will mainly focus on those settlements that failed – Melville Island (1824), Westernport, Vic (1826) and Raffles Bay , NT (1827).

​John Graham has been actively involved in genealogy since he started researching his own family in 1975.
He has written five books on aspects of local history, and co-authored a sixth.
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From 1998 until 2005 John was head of the Sydney Dead Persons Society, during which time the DPS founded the Ryerson Index. John is currently President of Ryerson Index Inc. 

Since retiring after a 40-year career in IT, John is now a full-time genealogist, speaking regularly to a wide variety of audiences.   Website: Voices from The Past
 
 
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John Graham

Gold Coast Family History Society is organising a series of talks by well renowned experts to help you with your research in 2018.
All are open to both GCFHS members and the general public for a small fee, bookings will be essential as numbers will be limited.  Visit our Up Coming Events page to see a list of future events .