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• Virtual Library Session | Catalogues & Kindness: Important contributions volunteers have made to our library collections

  • When
    05 June 2025
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    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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    Online via Zoom
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  ASK THE SAG STAFF!

  Have you ever wondered what's inside the SAG library collection? Have you ever been uncertain on what to search for in the online catalogue?  What questions do you have about the library?

  The virtual library session is an opportunity to ask the SAG Library staff these questions and more. If you have ever wondered about the types of materials we have in the library or how to use the library catalogue this might be the session for you!

  In this session, SAG staff will be highlighting some of the wonderful resources in the SAG Library collection that volunteers have contributed to or created!

  This session will be online via Zoom on Thursday 5 June 2025 from 11.00am - 12.00pm AEST.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Virtual Library Session | Find Your Way Around the Library: Catalogues, Call Numbers & Collections

  • When
    19 June 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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    Online via Zoom
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  Virtual Library Session | Find Your Way Around the Library: Catalogues, Call Numbers & Collections

  If you have ever wondered about the types of materials we have in the library or how to use the library catalogue this might be the session for you! This Virtual Library Session is an opportunity to ask the SAG Library staff questions about all things Library.
  

  In this session, SAG staff will be highlighting how to use the online catalogue and the wonderful resources in the SAG Library collection. We will also explain how our unique classification system works and have a general Q+A time towards the end of the session.
  

  This session will be online via Zoom on Thursday 19 June 2025 from 2.30pm - 3.30pm AEST.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Family History Connect | The Mayflower, English Pilgrims and the early American Genealogies

  • When
    24 June 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect | The Mayflower, English Pilgrims and the early American Genealogies

  

  Many of us have seen American matches in our DNA results list, but we have no idea of the relationship. Over the last five centuries, huge numbers of people emigrated from all over the UK and Ireland, and many arrived in Massachusetts. Some stayed.
  

  
  

  There are a large number of wonderfully comprehensive genealogies linked to the early settlements around Massachusetts, and these are freely available to download. Patrice Connelly will look at the early migration to the US from England, and review a number of the different types of books: Vital records from early towns; Genealogies of particular settlers; Local genealogy journals and Biographical material associated with the towns. She will start with the Mayflower, the Puritans and the Pilgrims and how the state of Massachusetts came into being, and then give you a tour of some of the books you can download to find side-shoots from your family tree that might have ended up in the US.
  
  This talk is relevant to those of you with UK and Irish ancestry, even if you haven't actually found any of your US cousins yet. It could also be of interest to the writers among us for some fabulous background material for early settlement in the US.
  
  

  This is a members only event that will take place via Zoom.
  

  Bookings are essential for this session.

  

  

  About the Family History Connect series:

  Our 'members-only' series, Family History Connect, feature themed sessions focusing on particular areas of genealogical research.

  Sessions are generally facilitated by one of the Society’s wonderful volunteers and this session will take place online.  These sessions are open to all current members of the Society. 

  If you would like to facilitate a session, please get in touch with us via email. 

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• Family History Connect | New England Historical and Genealogical Register

  • When
    08 July 2025
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    2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
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    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect | New England Historical and Genealogical Register
  

  

  The New England Historical and Genealogical Register began in 1847 and is still going today. The journal is home to an immense wealth of genealogical information which is mostly about the New England region in the US, but it also contains articles and connections back to the UK.

  Contents include parish registers for various parishes, wills, memorials, articles on historical events, biographies, pictures, obituaries and much more. Early volumes are on Internet Archive and freely available, along with handy indexes to volumes 1-50. Subscription sites have the more recent volumes.
  
  Patrice Connelly will take you through what you need to know to access and use this spectacular resource. It will be of particular interest to those of us with US cousins, US ancestry or branches of our UK and Irish families that ended up in the US. Even if they didn't stay in New England, you may find valuable connecting evidence back to England and on to where your cousins moved.

  This is a members only event that will take place via Zoom.
  

  Bookings are essential for this session.

  

  

  About the Family History Connect series:

  Our 'members-only' series, Family History Connect, feature themed sessions focusing on particular areas of genealogical research.

  Sessions are generally facilitated by one of the Society’s wonderful volunteers and this session will take place online.  These sessions are open to all current members of the Society. 

  If you would like to facilitate a session, please get in touch with us via email. 

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• Family History Connect | Understanding YOUR YDNA Results

  • When
    29 July 2025
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    11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  Family History Connect: Understanding YOUR YDNA Results

  Members only. Limited to 6 participants.

  This session of Family History Connect |  Understanding YOUR YDNA Results will be a virtual round table discussion/workshop offered online via Zoom and facilitated by Society volunteer, Chris Hingerty.

  Please note, this session also involves a one on one Zoom chat in the weeks prior to the session to prepare each participant for the round table discussion/workshop.

  By agreeing to be part of this session, you are aware that:

  • You will receive a follow up email after your registration asking you to email our facilitator, Chris, to arrange the one on one Zoom chat. 
  • This session is open to members who have already received their YDNA test results (Y37, or Y111, or Big Y 700) and want to discuss what the results are telling them and what to do next to achieve their research goals.
  • ALL participants must be prepared to share and discuss their results with the group during the round table discussion/workshop.
  • Participants do not need to know how to read or analyse their results, or how to share via Zoom as this will be demonstrated during the pre-workshop one on one Zoom chat.
  • Participants will introduce themselves at the workshop by responding to the following questions: Who did you test? Which test? Why test? What was your research question?
  • The workshop will focus on what the YDNA results are telling participants about their research question and what steps they will take next in their research.

  Please note that, due to privacy concerns, no recordings or screen shots can be taken during the workshop session.

  Prior to the session, in order to benefit from and be able to fully contribute to the discussion, participants are strongly encouraged to view the recording available in the Members Area, Webinar Library Using Y-DNA to Assist Your Research (Sept 2023) and/or attend (or watch the video recordings) the three part Understanding Y-DNA Webinar Series - https://sag.org.au/event-6070348

  
  

  You can view other sessions in the Family History Connect series here.

  
  

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