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When and where do we meet? The DPS, as it is known, meets on the fourth Sunday of each month (except December) from 12.30 pm - 5 pm (12.30 pm for coffee and chat, speaker is usually at 1.30 pm, break for coffee at 3, meet again until 4.30 pm, then clean up/pack up time.) We meet at the Bundoora Community Hall, Noorang Avenue, Bundoora (Victoria, Australia) which is off Greenwood Drive, between Plenty and Watsonia Roads. Where we meet is behind the main hall. There is plenty of parking just by the door. All we ask is a donation of $2 to cover the cost of the hire of the hall and other incidentals and that you please bring a plate of yummy nibbles to share. Tea and coffee are provided. So come along to any meeting and introduce yourself. You are very welcome. If anyone would like to share any of their genealogical experiences or travels, please contact Marsha at the meeting and she can put you in on any one of the "vacant" dates! You may think that others "are not interested" in what you have to say....WRONG! We are always willing to listen to others experiences: bookwriting, travels to Ireland, meeting up with Aunt Harriet, where you went to school, what genealogical (database) program you use, looking at old photographs, the choice is yours! DPS Meeting Dates for 2008 27 January 2008 Your big Genie finds of 2007 (To be co-ordinated by Janice Cornwell) x All 24 February 2008  Life Stories (To be co-ordinated by Roslyn & Ian Brown) Kath Ensor 23 March 2008 NO Meeting( Easter Sunday) 27 April 2008 Making a Genie Backup CD. (What to store!) (Marsha Webster) David Webster 25 May 2008 Non Issued Probates/Administrations (To be co-ordinated by Keen Harris)  Ada Ackerly 22 June 2008 Irish Ancestry(Research) (To be co-ordinated by Ray Wigraft) Beryl O'Gorman 27 July 2008 Pixel by Pixel ( restoration of old /damaged photographs) (To be co-ordinated by Pirrie Shiel) Carol Heath 24 August 2008  (DPS 16th Birthday Meeting) ( Military research Pre WWI  principally UK records) (To be co-ordinated by Judy & Don Briggs) Bev Spinks 28 September 2008 Create a "Power-Point" Presentation!. (To be co-ordinated by Ian Larmer) Judy Symons 26 October 2008 Genealogy Resources in Melbourne University Archives (To be co-ordinated by Shirley Muir) Jane Ellen 23 November 2008 To be advised (? Useful computer tips for Genies) (To be co-ordinated by Catherine Ludwick)             Dps "Journeymen/women" 7 December 2008 Christmas Break-up (? "Illawong" Patterson Lakes) (To be co-ordinated by Rosey Kendall)