What’s On

Check out what is happening across Australia and New Zealand at our member organisations. One of the benefits of membership, organisations can add their events for inclusion on this page using this link: Submit Event.

    Introduction to Working with Segments and Chromosome Painting with Donna Rutherford

    Wednesday Aug 6th: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    Online | More Info

    FamilyHistoryWA Seminar for Family Historians: ‘Looking Forward to the Past: Family History Research in the Digital Age’

    Thursday Aug 14th: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
    FamilyHistoryWA
    In Person | More Info

    Learn to Research Your Family Tree – Hastings Library

    Thursday Aug 14th: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    Presented by Mornington Peninsula Family History Society on behalf of Mornington Peninsula Shire Library
    In Person | More Info

    Genealogy means business: Tracing ancestors through company records

    Thursday Aug 14th: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    State Library of New South Wales
    Online | More Info

    The Good Oil Discussion Circle – Using Family History Software

    Thursday Aug 14th: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
    Online | More Info

    Getting Started in Family History

    Thursday Aug 14th: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
    Boroondara Library Service
    In Person | More Info

    Beginners Practical Introduction to Family History

    Friday Aug 15th: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    In Person | More Info

    Intermediate Research Methods Course

    Friday Aug 15th: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    Online | More Info

    Family History Story Time

    Friday Aug 15th: 10:30 am - 11:15 am
    Wyndham City Libraries
    In Person | More Info

    New and Existing Member Orientation: Discovering the GSV and our Resources

    Saturday Aug 16th: 9:00 am - 10:30 am
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc
    Online | More Info

    Family History Month Open Day

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Illawarra Family History Group Inc.
    In Person | More Info

    Family History Open Day

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
    Wyong Family History Group Inc.
    In Person | More Info

    Open Day

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Botany Bay Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    Revealing the Huguenots: Their Diaspora, Their Descendants, and My Own Personal Discoveries (presented by Neil Renaud)

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    Colo Shire Family History Group
    In Person | More Info

    Open Day

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:30 am - 2:00 pm
    Gold Coast Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    Researching Your Family History

    Saturday Aug 16th: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
    Online | More Info

    Software Saturday

    Saturday Aug 16th: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
    Adelaide Northern Districts Family History Group
    In Person | More Info

    International Settlers Discussion Circle – Researching Ancestors from Scandinavia

    Saturday Aug 16th: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
    Online | More Info

    First Look at AncestryDNA

    Sunday Aug 17th: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    Online | More Info

    Discovering My Ancestral Village

    Sunday Aug 17th: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm
    Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria
    In Person | More Info

    Scottish Special Interest Group

    Sunday Aug 17th: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Gold Coast Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    "Pushing Up Daisies" – Australian cemetery research online

    Monday Aug 18th: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Gold Coast Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    Exploring and using the Scotlands People website

    Monday Aug 18th: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
    Online | More Info

    Newspapers for Family History

    Tuesday Aug 19th: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    State Library Victoria
    Online | More Info

    CQ Chatters

    Tuesday Aug 19th: 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    CQ Family History Association
    Online | More Info

    Death Records: pathways into people's lives

    Wednesday Aug 20th: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    State Library of Queensland
    Online | More Info

    Whose DNA is it anyway? Ethics in genetic genealogy

    Wednesday Aug 20th: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    State Library of New South Wales
    In Person | More Info

    Treasures of Trove

    Wednesday Aug 20th: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Boroondara Library Service
    In Person | More Info

    Declutter, Sort and Preserve your Printed Photos

    Thursday Aug 21st: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    Wyndham City Libraries
    In Person | More Info

    Discovery Day – Sharing the Knowledge

    Thursday Aug 21st: 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
    Narre Warren & District Family History Group
    In Person | More Info

    Finding family crimes

    Thursday Aug 21st: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    State Library of New South Wales and Museums of History NSW
    Online | More Info

    Researching Family History in New Zealand

    Thursday Aug 21st: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
    The Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc.
    Online | More Info

    Farming Families of Whittlesea

    Thursday Aug 21st: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Yarra Plenty Regional Library
    In Person | More Info

    "Introduction to Family History" – public welcome but booking essential

    Friday Aug 22nd: 9:00 am - 11:59 pm
    Gold Coast Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    Family History Open Day

    Saturday Aug 23rd: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Genealogical Society of Queensland Inc
    In Person | More Info

    Genealogy SA Family History Awards

    Sunday Aug 24th: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Genealogy SA
    In Person | More Info

    DNA and Family History for Beginners

    Tuesday Aug 26th: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
    Wyndham City Libraries
    In Person | More Info

    Family Search Australian Affiliate Library Forum: NZ

    Wednesday Aug 27th: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    Family Search
    Online | More Info

    Learn to Research Your Family Tree – Mornington Library

    Wednesday Aug 27th: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Presented by Mornington Peninsula Family History Society on behalf of Mornington Peninsula Shire Library
    In Person | More Info

    CQ Chatters

    Wednesday Aug 27th: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
    CQ Family History Association
    Online | More Info

    Family Search Australian Affiliate Library Forum: Australia

    Thursday Aug 28th: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
    Family Search
    Online | More Info

    Working women

    Thursday Aug 28th: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    State Library of Queensland
    Online | More Info

    Online Writing Workshop with Dr Betty O'Neill

    Friday Aug 29th: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    Online | More Info

    Migration Stories

    Friday Aug 29th: 10:00 am - 11:45 am
    Woollahra Library hosting a talk by Suzanne Hyde from the Society of Australian Genealogists
    In Person | More Info

    Aspects of Immigration to Victoria in the 19th Century

    Saturday Aug 30th: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
    Gisborne Genealogical Group
    In Person | More Info

    Everything Scottish

    Saturday Aug 30th: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Cooroy-Noosa Genealogical & Historical Research Group Inc
    In Person | More Info

    Wellington Family History Day (Where: Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand)

    Saturday Aug 30th: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
    Combined Greater Wellington Branches of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists
    In Person | More Info

    Rookwood Cemetery Tour – General Historical

    Sunday Aug 31st: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
    Society of Australian Genealogists
    In Person | More Info

    DNA Group – "The seXY gene: the X & Y chromosomes

    Sunday Aug 31st: 1:00 pm - 11:59 pm
    Gold Coast Family History Society
    In Person | More Info

    Family History Month Closing Ceremony

    Sunday Aug 31st: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    AFFHO
    Online | More Info

    The Ryerson Index in the 2020s

    Tuesday Sep 2nd: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Genealogy SA
    Hybrid (Online & In Person) | More Info

    NSW & ACT Association Family History Societies 40th Annual Conference Day 1: They Came From Where?

    Friday Sep 12th: 9:00 am - 7:30 pm
    Illawarra Family History Group
    Hybrid (Online & In Person) | More Info

    NSW & ACT Association Family History Societies 40th Annual Conference Day 2: They Came From Where?

    Saturday Sep 13th: 8:00 am - 7:30 pm
    Illawarra Family History Group
    Hybrid (Online & In Person) | More Info

    NSW & ACT Association Family History Societies 40th Annual Conference Day 3: They Came From Where?

    Sunday Sep 14th: 8:45 am - 12:30 pm
    Illawarra Family History Group
    Hybrid (Online & In Person) | More Info


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