A directory of oral history collections, collected in a state by state order.directory listingsgenealogy, oral history, family history, local history

The focus of this publication is on the range of records of most value to genealogists, those in which essential details of former lives are held. Exploring official records reveals the facts of these lives: of where and when and how men and women served their nation in wartime; or settled in a new country; or were employed on public projects; or were educated or assisted through Commonwealth government agencies.b&w photographs, copies of records, chartsgenealogy, local history, national archives of australia

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Penelope Aitken lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She makes paintings and installations about relationships: between people, between things and between people and things. Recurring subjects include friendship, genealogy, romantic liaisons, and cross-cultural exchange as well as gardening, craft and landscape design. 'I am interested in the social, psychological and aesthetic motives behind organisation, belonging and displacement and I often make work that investigates such arrangements.' She has held regular solo exhibitions since 1995 and has been represented in group exhibitions since 1989. These have included shows in public and commercial galleries, artist run spaces, outdoor projects and festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Tokyo and Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. Aitken has previously worked at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and at Asialink at the University of Melbourne. From 2006 - 2009 she was a board member of the Melbourne artist run gallery, West Space and she has also curated and coordinated numerous exhibitions and written and edited catalogues, articles and essays. She holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts) both from The University of Melbourne and completed her Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004. In 1997 Aitken was selected to be a studio artist for two years at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne and in 2000 she undertook an Australia Council Studio at the Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan. More recently she spent two months in 2007 at the Laughing Waters Residency, Birrarung, in Eltham, Victoria. There she began her current interest in the rocks used in the landscape designs of Gordon Ford. Paintings of Ford's rocks made since 2007 as well as glacial erratics, meteors, and other natural and displaced rocks were exhibited in March 2011 at the Light Factory Gallery in Eltham in a show called My History of here, and Second Nature, one work from this exhibition, was awarded first prize at Eltham Masterworks 2011. Other work made about rocks in nature and culture include: the project, A dark archive, as well as in two installations: You seem so settled for one that doesn't belong held at West Space in 2009 and Gathering these things to remind me of home shown in 2010 at the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. In July and August 2007 Aitken undertook an arts recidency at Birrarung, a house and garden designed by Gordon Ford and managed as the Laughing Waters Artist in Residence Program by the Shire of Nillumbik Victoria. The rocks depicted in the painting 'Mapping Mass & Void 10' are all taken from the garden at Birrarung. Aitken has made reference to those rocks and the way in which Ford thought of the rocks as individuals that need to be handled and placed with consideration to show off their best aspects.oil and acrylic on linen ek prac 2015

Image (top) of Victoria Theatre Sovereign Hill, with Andrew Dark (2nd from left) and Peter Eyres (2nd from right) The theatre at Soveriegn Hill is a replica of the Victoria Theatre that opened in Ballarat on 16 February 1856 with a season by the legendary Lola Montez. The new theatre claimed to be the largest in the colony outside Melbourne.page 15 black and white typed article with two imagesIRISH ORIGINS - AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE BALLARAT, 5TH/6TH NOVEMBER 1988 by Des Reganandrew dark, victoria theatre, sovereign hull, ballarat, gold, mining

Episode 1 Ellis Treleaven & Marie O'Connor Episode 2 Matthieu & Kerry Stevenson (Kew relevance - Joan McDonald, Ethel Bradley, & Gladys Ivy Lee) Episode 3 Elizabeth Brierley & Paul Morrisnon-fictionDocumentary series following everyday Australians as they discover the truth about their family's past, confronting the extraordinary secrets that have shaped their lives.genealogy, family research

A history of the Schneider family that evolved from Fr. Geoffrey Schneider's forthcoming 100th birthday.A history of the Schneider family that evolved from Fr. Geoffrey Schneider's forthcoming 100th birthday.(fr) (mr) geoffrey schneider, (fr) (mr) victor schneider, (ms) kristin schneider, valonia motors, canterbury road, surrey hills, (miss) marjorie magdalen bowen, (miss) doris kathleen bowen, (mr) victor bowen, (mr) matthew bowen, (miss) matilda schneider, (mr) archibald cleary, genealogy

xv, 286 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, maps, ports. Includes index. Geneal. tables on lining papers. Bibliography: p. 225-260non-fictionThe story of Charles and John Mills, pioneers of Port Fairy. Includes genealogical information. maritime, mills, john brabyn, 1810-1877, charles frederick, 1812-1855, mills family, pioneers -- victoria -- port fairy -- biography, pioneers -- tasmania -- biography, australian history, biography, exploration, genealogy, harbour master, mills : charles and john, mills brothers, port fairy, shipping, warrnambool history, whaling, wrecks, book

non-fictionA Source Book for Australian Military Genealogy . the first fleet to the gulf war

A publication of 216 pages includes a detailed account of descendants of the Hume family and their achievements. It includes genealogical tables, portraits, and index and maps on the inside covers.This publication traces the achievements of descendants of Hamilton Hume and connected families. This includes the Mitchell, Hume, Kennedy and Huon pastoral families who had strong links to North East VIctoria. hamilton hume, australian pioneers, pioneer life

A publication of 64 pages which delves into the people that influenced the development of the city of Albury. This book is part of a series of books compiled to document the development of communities around Australia. According to the author Albury is a great city and it has become a great city because of the calibre of the people who live in it. The publication is set out as a detailed timeline of events and the people that influenced the development of Albury up until 1985. It includes an index of past and present citizens of merit, Albury and district parliamentary representatives as well as aldermen and mayors from 1959 to 1974. James McClelland was born in Campsie, NSW in 1927. Throughout his lifetime he was an ardent genealogist and historian. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1988 for service to Australian genealogical and historical research. He died on 18th August, 1994.pioneers albury, history albury, timeline albury

non-fictionThe story of the Thomas Proctor and his family of 'Ulverstone'. Thomas migrated to Australia in 1852 as a young boy. After time on the goldfields, Thomas took to the land, marrying the daughter of Charles Cross, a landowner at Kooreh in the North Grampians district of Victoria. Over the following decades he amassed much more land. Thomas was an astute businessman and entrepreneur - married twice and fathered 17 children. Through his benevolence towards the local community as well as his financial success Thomas became known as 'The Grand Old Man of Kooreh'.proctor family, victoria -- genealogy, kooreh victoria, thomas proctor

non-fictionA Genealogical study of the Families of Frederick Heckendorf and a Record of Their Descendants, 1808-1982, 127 Years in Australia. In 1855, Frederick and Julianna Heckendorf and their children departed Hamburg on the SS Steinwarder for a new life in Australia. In 1869, they moved to Wodonga and it wasn't long before they set up a dairy farm at Willow Park. One hundred years later, the farm was in the hands of Fredrick's great grandson Les Boyes. In the 1970s the land was acquired by the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation, which had the goal of developing Albury-Wodonga into a major inland city.heckendorf family, wodonga pioneers, german migration to australia

non-fictionThis is a tribute to the author's forebears who risked all and made audacious, often treacherous journeys to the other end of the world, to become pioneers of this country. John Ronan and his wife Johanna Fleming arrived in Australia on the 'Australia' from Kilkenny in 1853. Their descendants eventually settled in North East Victoria, around the Tallangatta district.ronan family, victoria -- genealogy, ireland -- genealogy, tallangatta

Black and white photograph of Ian Bunty Bulmer of Lakes Entrance taken at Nyerimilang Park on Australia Day, Kalimna West Victoriagenealogy

HMAS Brisbane on capSepia toned photographic postcard of Colin Campbell Snr as a young man wearing the uniform of the Australian Navy Rating, Lake Bunga Victoriagenealogy, australian navy

Black and white photograph showing Lorna Mitchelson nee Peel being presented with 1996 Australia Day Citizen of the Year certificate by LERHS President Margaret Campbell and Marie Fishcelebrations, genealogy