Seminars & Courses

Seminars/Courses are held on an occasional basis in the GSV Meeting Room, Level B1 257 Collins Street, Melbourne.

Bookings are essential. Payment is required with bookings. Payment can be made via our secure online shop

• Starting Your Family History Class
• Scottish Family History Course
• English Family History Course
• Seminar
• Scottish Family History Seminar - Scottish Housing through the Ages

Starting Your Family History Class

1st Wednesday of the month (not January)
10.30 am to 12.00 pm
Topics to be covered include:

• • Gathering family information
  • Recording information
  • Confirming information
  • Starting research- BDM's etc
  • Investigating other records eg passengers, cemeteries, naturalisation etc

Charge GSV members $8.00, Non-member $10.00
Booking with payment is essential
Make payment at GSV reception or the GSV online shop

Courses

Scottish Family History Course

Beginning Scottish Family History

Tuesday 10.30 am - 12.00 pm
August 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th 2012
Held in the Meeting room at the GSV
Topics to be covered over four sessions include:
Recording and Documenting Sources
Civil Registration - Births, Deaths & Marriages
Parish Records Baptisms, Marriages & Burials
Maps & Gazetteers
Wills & Probate
Census Records
GSV members $48.00, non-members $96.00 Book with payment at GSV reception or the GSV online shop

English Family History

English Family History
(Beginner & Intermediate Levels)
Tuesdays 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
11, 18 & 25 September 2012
Held in the Meeting room at the GSV
Topics to be covered over three sessions include:
Family history research basics
Maps & Gazetteers
Civil Registration (births, marriages & deaths)
Church Records (baptisms, marriages & burial; other)
Census Records
Wills & Probate
Directories & Occupational Records (including military)
Newspapers
Historical basis of English Records (an overview)
Key Internet sites
GSV members $72.00, non-members $144.00
Morning Tea & Coffee provided. Book with payment
at GSV reception or the GSV online shop

Seminar

LONDON ANCESTORS

Saturday 25 August 2012
10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Learn about life in London
Find out about new resources
Get help with your London research
Speakers - Alan Fincher, Linley Hooper and Susan Priestley
BYO lunch
Booking with payment is essential
Make payment at the GSV reception or the GSV online shop
Charge: GSV members $40 non-members $80

Scottish Family History Seminar - Scottish Housing through the Ages

Saturday 30 June 2012  10.00 am to 3.00 pm
 

To be held in the GSV Meeting Room - Level B1, 257 Collins Street, Melbourne

This will be an educational seminar on Scottish housing from medieval times down to 1900

Presentations from a number of speakers will include:

• Medieval and early modern Scottish housing

From wattle and daub, roof trees, thatch and other materials near at hand to stone, timber-frames and shingles, from duns and crannogs to summer shielings, from cottouns and farmtouns to apartment living in the burghs, learn about the housing of the lower and middle strata of Scottish society.

• Scottish Domestic Architecture 1600-1900

From timber-frames to mortared masonry, from turf, shingles and thatch to slates and tiles, from dirt and dung to carpets and linoleum, from solars to dormers, from forestairs to grand stairs, explore the changes in Scottish housing of the lower and middle tiers of Scottish society.

• The nobility and landed proprietors

From castles, towers and bastle houses to the manor house, from spartan fortification to style, taste and creature comfort, from barrel-vaulted ceilings to proportion, stucco and the architectural orders, from rubble-filled and coursed rubble walls to quoining, ashlar blocks and pointed walls, gain an insight into the residences of the Scottish elite.

• Resources in the GSV Library and on the Internet

Tap into some of the resources that are available in the GSV Library and on the internet that describe the housing and living conditions of the Scottish population, by time, by place and according to economic status.

Places are limited and bookings are essential. Payment is required with bookings, through the GSV Reception desk or GSV online shop

Cost is $30 for GSV and/or Scottish Ancestry Group members. (Note: this seminar is not open to non-members).

Tea/Coffee/Biscuits served from 9.30am