Guest Speaker at our March Members Meeting on 16th March will be Kerry Carmichael, Secretary Treasurer and Founding Member of the Australian Aviation Hall of Fame.

A new, free genealogy website, GenGophers.com, will help you search for and download digitized books with family history information. Books come from FamilySearch, the Allen County Public Library and elsewhere. You can keyword-search book texts or titles.

Wagga resident Lorna Menzies-Wall has written a book that combines her two biggest passions – history and music. A Concise History of Music in Europe has been Ms Menzies-Wall’s labour of love for decades. Ms Menzies-Wall will officially launch her new book on March 7 from 11am at the Riverina Conservatorium of Music.

THREE Wagga women are among 300 who have shared their World War II experiences in a new book. The book – titled Between The Dances – has been written by Melbourne-based author Jacqueline Dinan.

Browse through the NSW State Records, archives day by day and month by month. Highlights for March include: 1900 the NSW Bushmen’s Contingent departed Sydney to fight in the Boer War in South Africa

Interested in improving your genealogy and family history research? The North Carolina State Library is excited to present a free online course that might be just what you’re looking for.

Applications for the Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society Research Scholarship, valued at $3,500 are closing on 5th March.

We are very grateful to R. Taylor who recently donated these 1950’s postcards  to the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society.

Video recordings of presentations at the huge RootsTech conference just concluded at Salt Lake City, Utah are now available free online.

This article from www.makeuseof.com is for those of us who want to begin to learn more about the history of our world, from east to west. From ancient times to the present.