Free Online course starts next week 13th April. Each week examine a different topic, including the physical and psychological wounds of war- shell shock, disability and trauma; women’s mobilisation both at home and in the field; and what we’ve called ‘the other Anzac’: indigenous soldiers too often ignored in our history.

We are very fortunate to have Wayne Doubleday, Manager of CSU Archives as guest speaker at our next members meeting on 20th April, 7.30pm at the Museum of the Riverina, Botanic Gardens site. Wayne will be speaking on “Paddle steamers navigating the Murrumbidgee River”

There are now 13 million Australians active on Facebook each month and they’re some of the heaviest users in the world. According to a Nielsen report commissioned by the social media giant in January, new stats reveal the average time Australians spend on Facebook every day is 1.7 hours.

Photo from the past plus News from the Daily Advertiser 25 and 50 years ago.

When a scanning device or a camera creates a digitized file, that file must be stored on the device in some kind of file format. The most common format is referred to as the JPEG format. There are, however, dozens of different image file formats. The most common file types include the following;

The Wagga Wagga Show Society originally operated under Murrumbidgee Pastoral & Agricultural Association. Mr Walter Orton Windeyer of “Wantabadjery” was the first president and Henry Baylis acted as secretary before G.E. Elliot took over in 1865.

Almost 11,000 New South Wales government employees volunteered for military service overseas during World War I — many gave their lives for their country. Others fulfilled essential services at home, and government departments were transformed to perform wartime roles.

It’s not often that the Trove Support Team is given the chance to get out about and speak face-to-face with the people who use Trove. That’s why they were all so excited to hear that Australasia’s biggest family history conference was coming to Canberra this year—it was too good an opportunity to miss!

State Records is a lead agency in the extensive New South Wales Centenary of World War I and Anzac commemorative program taking place between August 2014 and November 2018. The full program is being overseen by the NSW Centenary of Anzac Council and has been endorsed by Cabinet.

A diary relating to the First World War service of Sister Alice Ross-King, Australian Army Nursing Service. The diary, kept between 17 January 1915 and 19 December 1915, details Ross-King’s service with the Australian Army Nursing Service (1 Australian General Hospital) in Egypt in 1915.