This tool allows you to search all over the world for a place name with FamilySearch returning proper results even when the name has changed over time.

570 Ballarat mining maps, dated between 1870–1890 (approx.), are now available to search and view online using the State Library of Victoria catalogue.

Local Heritage Architect, Noel Thomson, will be speaking on the primary architectural styles of Wagga Wagga heritage buildings at our next members meeting 7.30pm on 18th May at the Museum of the Riverina, Botanic Gardens site.

Take a trip down memory lane to May 1-5 in 1995. There are loads of familiar faces – is yours one of them?

The footbridge was at the southern end of Trail Street and spanned Wollundry Lagoon. It was removed to make way for Ivan Jack Drive connecting Trail Street to Best Street which was opened to traffic in 1961.

Giltrap’s ‘lorry’ evacuating North Wagga residents during one of the floods in the 1950s. There were several floods in the 1950s, the worst in 1950 (10.13 metres), 1952 (9.45 m) and 1956 (9.58 m) when 1200 North Wagga-ites had to be evacuated.

The Wagga Wagga Hotels Location map has now been posted to our web page.

Ancestry.com.au will open the site’s New Zealand and Australian military history collections, and UK collections with  FREE information on Commonwealth soldiers, until 11.59 pm Sunday (26 April).

“I will never forget Sunday, 25th of April. I really believe it will mark an era in Australian history. On this day, Australians proved themselves.

The April 2015 issue of Now&Then is out now. The latest issue features many World War I-related items: