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Issue # 139 May 2008 - July 2008
The Reverend Samuel Chambers Kent, by Elizabeth A. Curtain.
Green and Gold by Wes Halket

Issue # 138 February 2008 - April 2008
ROBERT BOOLEY - Chartist Pioneer - By Rodney Donelly
William P. Davies - A True Aussie Character by Dawn Cowley
Blessing of the Bonnets - UPDATE
Poem: Old Stratford, by “Ancient”

Issue # 137 November 2007 – January 2008
Memories of Richard Runnalls 1913 – 1977 by Vicki Evans
The Metford’s, My Quaker Ancestors by Jeanette Rennie
MGFHS Latrobe Shire Rate Books Project, 2008
Members Family History; Mcmillen / McMillan of Dean & Bunyip
What's new in the Library
Our New CD Cemetery Records
Who do you think you are?

Issue # 136 August 2007 – October 2007
MGFHS Writing Competition entries
The Reverend John Gregson by Helen McLennan
Martha Barr by Vaughan Knox
MGFHS Family History Seminar. Saturday 6th October 2007
The make a bonnet tribute, Roses from the Heart
Family History Week offerings

Issue # 135 May 2007 – July 2007
MGFHS Writing Competition 2007; The Winning Entries
There’s a Doctor in my Family, Sandra Dumble
The Clock from Dunoon, Sandra Dumble
Family History Seminar. Saturday 6th October 2007
Best Anzac Biscuit recipe, Wes Halket
The make a bonnet tribute, Roses from the Heart

Issue # 134 February 2007 – April 2007
MGFHS Writing Competition 2007
Members Family History story – Finding James Milligan
Van Diemen’s Land Convicts: Port Arthur system & rules.
MGFHS transcribe Gormandale Cemetery
POEM: Grandma Climbed the Family Tree

Issue # 133 November 2006 – January 2007
Death of Father Egan 1888
The Moe Register – Death of Father Egan
Moe Coalmining Company
A miraculous escape on the railway – Arthur Doherty

Issue # 132 August 2006 – October 2006
A Trip from Moe to Neerim – 1888
Lost in the Bush – William Waldon
North Hazelwood Creamery, G Gooding
Members Interests: Rowley Foster
Members Family History: Sarah Harbourd/Smith/Mannix/Warne

Issue # 131 May 2006 – July 2006
Members Profile: Dawn Cowley.
Carrajung Cemetery, by David Weatherill
Statistical Notes on the Goldfields; part 2.
Australian BDM Places.
Library News; Ancestry in Latrobe Libraries.
Obituary: Mrs Vera Grace Jolliffe of Yallourn

Issue # 130 February 2006 – April 2006
25th Anniversary Celebrations
Local History: Harking Back, Traralgon
Pioneer Obituary’s: Thomas QUIGLEY; Mrs Sarah CANAVAN;
The death of Mr N. J. LAWLESS
Scottish Royal Burghs or Towns
Victoria 1852: Government injustice. Statistical Notes on the Goldfields

Issue # 129 November 2005 – January 2006
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area. Part 6
Jericho Cemetery (Gippsland)
Hazelwood Cemetery, Pausing Amongst the Commas,,, by John Kyd.
Poem: On First Entering Port Phillip Heads by Emily E. Beavan

Issue # 128 August 2005 – October 2005
Members Profile: Bob JONES
2005 Report, to the General Meeting.
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area. Part 5
Pioneer Obituary: Jessie GOODE.
Members Interest updates.
Wrong Registrations and the Law, 1873.
The Argus and Criminal Research.
Heat and Bushfires 1939

Issue # 127 May 2005 – July 2005
Members Profile: Peter YOUNG
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area. Part 4
Members Family History: George Mackinlay; Brian & Vaughan Knox.
Housewives hints, from last century.
AFDA: Personal Profile Report
Walhalla Mining Accidents

Issue # 126 February 2005 – April 2005
Members Profile: Kaye O'REILLY
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area. Part 3
Moondarra State School Honour Roll.
Members Interests update… We need yours
Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters
Joy Murrin Family History Services
Local Pioneer, Obituary, GEORGE COATES:
Web addresses: Queensland Cemeteries, County Clare Ireland,
War Memorials and Honor rolls in Victoria.

Issue # 125 November 2004 – January 2005
Members Profile & Family History: Margaret CURTIS
Missing registrations?
1872, Rules for Teachers.
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area, part 2.
Web addresses: Archival Links.
Donegal/Australia, FHG.

Issue # 124 August - October 2004
Members Profile: David GRANT
Members Family History:
The HARBROW & BRADLEY Families
Local History: The early settlement of the Morwell area
Police Gazette’s and Exam
Researching Tasmanian B.D.M.
Researching WW1 Records

Issue # 123 May - July 2004
Members Profile: Dianne TERRY
Henry Augustus Samson Medical Practitioner
Book Report: The Rosedale Story by Don Macreidie
Moe Vaccinations 1879 – 1883
Morwell Cenotaph Inscriptions
Victorian B.D.M’s Online: How to

Issue # 122 February - April 2004
Members Profile: Brian KNOX
Cenotaph Inscriptions:
Moe, Narracan, Willow Grove and Fumina
Members Family History:
The Sinking of the INDIA, David Grant
Members Family History:
Edmond Augustus SAMSON, S Dumble
Cemetery's on line.
French Omelette.
Army Record, addresses.
Notices:
2004 Meeting dates, Missing books, Internet users,

Issue # 121 November 2003- January 2004
Members Profile: Janette RENNIE.
Yinnar and District Honor Roll.
Lists of Walhalla Inquests.
Members Family History:
Richard Davies - Phantom Ancestor
Spare B.D.M. certificate information:
Dawn Cowley's Extra's
'When Acorns Grow':
Includes a list of Medical Practitioners
New Library Borrowing Policy

Issue # 120 August - October 2003
Presidents Report 2003-2004
Members Profile: Ray HOUGH
Thorpdale and District Cenotaph Transcriptions.
Book Review: So Tall the Trees.
List of local Inquests.

Issue # 119 May - July 2003
Glengarry Cenotaph Transcriptions.
Members Profile: Don TYLEE.
100 Years Ago:
The Morwell & Yinnar Gazette.
Discussing the Great War.

Issue # 118 February - April 2003
Erica & Trafalgar Cenotaph Inscriptions.
Member Profile: Robyn BYRNE.
Mr G. L. ROMERILl: A teacher recalls.
From The Narracan Shire Advocate:
Moe Football Club, beginnings 
The Death of Mr. Irving BISHOP
Strange Fatality -- 'McLEOD'
A Discovery of Human Remains
Gold in Moe? A Concert for Mr. HOLTHAM.
Members Family History:
John Colin McKENZIE and Mary Sophia STANDEN.

Issue # 117 June - August 2002
Tangil Gold Field
Member Profile: Ron PRATT.
Blue Rock Lake Pioneer Wall.
Library & Net News.
From the Morwell and Mirboo Gazette:
A Fatal Accident. The Ridge Picnic.
A day in Boolarra.
The Mowhawk Minstrels.
A Ball in the Mechanics.
B. D. M. Certificate addresses.
Meeting dates for 2003.

Issue # 116 June - August 2002
The Presidents Report 2002.
Members Profile: Helen McLENNAN
Traralgon Cenotaph Inscriptions.
An 1886 Suicide.
Dr HADDEN of Walhalla.
Library News.
Opening of the C of E at Mirboo North in 1886

Members Interest Directory
The Mid Gippsland Members Interest Directory 2005

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