28 July- Rosemary Allen
"Persecution and Suffering"
Locating Non-Conformist Ancestors in the 17th-18th Centuries, with particular emphasis on the Northern Counties of England.

25 August- Wendy Brown
“Walhalla - Gold town of Gippsland"
From 1863 until 1914, Walhalla was one of the richest gold areas in Australia.
Located 180 km east of Melbourne in a deep valley in the Victorian Alps, Walhalla was a boom town of the 1880s. With a population of more than 3000 people, it boasted 10 hotels, 7 churches, a school with over 500 students and several dance halls.
Today there are less than 20 permanent residents, but over 80,000 people vist the town each year. This historic township has many unique features - a mountain top cricket ground, a cemetery perched on the side of a steep hillside, an original gold mine and of course a rich social history!
Walhalla's history and folklore will be explored in this presentation.

22 September- Joy Herman
“Searching the records of New South Wales & New Zealand for an elusive ancestor, Hessy"
Joy Herman has a professional background in biography writing. She is relatively new to genealogy but has a great story to tell about her research so far.

27 October- Jenny Coates
“Melbourne's Unemployed of the 1890s: what their stories can tell us"
Jenny is both an experienced genealogist and a professional historian.
This topic forms part of her post graduate studies

24 November
“End of Year Round Up. What have we achieved? A time for Show and Tell. "