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Meeting Speaker Topic
6 February 2026 Shauna Hicks Mining the Archives
Using AI for family history research
6 March 2026 None You tube video on "Redoing your Family Tree"
3 April 2026 Good Friday No Meeting - RSL closed
1 May 2026 Suzanne Muligan How Oral History can augment Family History
5 June 2026 Kay Ryan Colonial Justice: Police Magistrates and Justices of the Peace"
3 July 2026 Sally Romano Paper to Pixels
7 August 2026 Phillip & Gail Challis Rescuing Records & Searching Smarter
4 September 2026 Barry Clark Bribie Island personalities
2 October Cathy Sherwood Scattered Leaves, Indelible Bonds:
The Diaspora of Six Irish Sisters
6 November 2026 Helen Smith Wills and Records
5 December 2026 Members Meeting Secret Santa
Christmas Santa will run quizzes and Secret Santa presents.
Trial Weekly Member's Workshops
We're running a weekly trial at Bribie Island Library, offering a limited number of members a workshop each week. Since the middle of July, a group of seven to eight members has assembled on Thursday afternoons at the Library's Board Room to share experiences aimed at overcoming "roadblocks" encountered in their individual family history journeys. By this "coming together", a measured level of success has been achieved.
With the resources of the Library readily at hand, participants have access to Ancestry, My Heritage, Trove and other online resources to use to help resolve individual problems.
This program will run until early September to determine its effectiveness in providing participants with an additional service accruing to membership of the Association.
Special Events
This year, the Bribie Family History Association facilitated a whole-day, two-session workshop on DNA. Renowned genealogist Helen Smith hosted this on 11 July at the Bribie Island Arts Centre.
Both sessions were well attended, and participants were introduced to Ancestry DNA tests and shown how to deal with confusing results. The afternoon session was more advanced, providing a practical introduction using case studies on the use of autosomal DNA in genealogical problem-solving, with a focus on the analytical tools and methodologies used by today’s genetic genealogists after using the tools at Ancestry or MyHeritage.
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