Family Tree Maker 'Back-from-the-Dead'
Ancestry, owners of Family Tree Maker desktop software, announced the product would be retired in Dec 2015, with support
ending in Dec 2016. (It would of course continue to work on your local computer.) However a Feb announcement says FTM has now
been bought by Software MacKiev and so will continue to be developed and supported.
[ MacKiev FTM ]
[
MacKiev's FTM FAQ ]
Free Vic BDM Index Searching
Searching the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages Index is now free, though you
still have to pay if you want a downloadable certificate.
Family Files Project
Our project in conjunction with the Historical Society to store our information about early district
families in a genealogical database is now well under way. If you would like to help us
entering this information from our existing publications and records you would be very welcome.
Please contact us at: surfcoastfh@gmail.com.
Full training is available.
More News
You can find more family history news in the News section of the latest edition
of our journal, the Inverlochy Log.
Welcome to the Surf Coast Family History Group web pages. Whether you are a member of long standing, a new member, or someone who is just browsing, we hope that you will find these web pages useful. [ What's New ]
Our aim is to help our members research their family history. We are a non-profit organisation formed in 1999, staffed by volunteers, are an auspiced sub-group of the Anglesea and District Historical Society Inc, and a member society of the Genealogical Society of Victoria Inc. We also operate a Broadband for Seniors service sponsored by the Australian Government (open during research hours). New members are very welcome, so if you would like to join our friendly group, please print out the Membership Form and post it to our Treasurer (see our address below), or just call in to one of our friendly monthly meetings.
We meet on the second Thursday of every month except January at 10:00 am at Anglesea's History House (location below), with speakers on a variety of topics to suit the family historian. Please refer to our Meetings Programme. We'd be very interested to hear your story too, or your experiences with recording family history. Presentations or suggestions for presentations are very welcome: please contact our Programme Organiser, Jan Morris (below).
We publish a quarterly journal, the Inverlochy Log, with articles related to local family history. All its issues can be searched and accessed on line. Perhaps you'd like to add your own family history to it - new contributions are very welcome: please contact our Editor, Jan Morris (below).
Our library and research centre for members' use contains an extensive range of books, CD-ROMs, microfiche, and magazines, as well as Internet access. Experienced members are available on Library Days to help beginners. Visitors are very welcome.
| Opening Hours: | |
| Tuesdays: | 10:30 am - 1:00 pm.
(Closed Tuesdays during School Holidays.) |
| Wednesdays: | By appointment. |
| Saturdays: | 10:30 am - 1:00 pm. |
Catalogues:
The following catalogues of our library are PDF files (100-200 KB each) which you can search for key words, or
download to your PC for off-line searching. Our extensive CD-ROM and Australian fiche catalogues are in preparation
and will be added to this page as soon as they are ready.
[ Books ]
[ Periodicals ]
[ Fiche (Overseas) ]
Enquiries: Email us at: surfcoastfh@gmail.com, or contact one of our Officebearers below.
Location: History House, 5a McMillan St, Anglesea,
Victoria.
(Entrance 4 of the Anglesea Community Precinct. Melway map 514 (was 196) E7).
Office Bearers for 2015-2016:
| Chairperson | Jan Morris | (03) 5263-3085 | davejanmorris@bigpond.com |
| Vice-Chairperson | Vacant | ||
| Secretary | Susan Clarke | 0438 070 560 | susanclarke3230@hotmail.com |
| Treasurer | Christine Guerow | (03) 5264-7602 | chrisguerow@gmail.com |
| Librarian | Karl Jacklin | 0412 619 219 | karlj@netspace.net.au |
| Journal Editor | Jan Morris | As above | As above |
| Committee Member | Peter Matthews | (03) 5263-1686 | matthews@melbpc.org.au |
| Committee Member | Gwen Morgan | (03) 5263-1865 | |
| Committee Member | Dulcie Quinlan | (03) 5263-3017 | dulcieq@bigpond.com |
| Committee Member | Marilyn Robinson | (03) 5263-1338 | mazza2paint@hotmail.com |
| Other Positions: | |||
| Programme Organiser | Jan Morris | As above | As above |
| Website | Peter Matthews | As above | As above |
Postal Address: Surf Coast Family History Group Inc., PO Box 98, Anglesea, Vic 3230, Australia.
Email: surfcoastfh@gmail.com
Web: http://vicnet.net.au/~angen/fh_home.htm