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24.01.2022 German Australian Lisa Curry Lisa Gaye Curry AO MBE (born 15 May 1962), is an Australian Olympic swimmer of German heritage on her maternal side. Lisa recently featured on Who do you think you are?... Curry won 15 gold, seven silver and eight bronze international swimming medals, and is the only Australian swimmer to have held Commonwealth and Australian records in every stroke except backstroke.[1] She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2] Curry was the chair of the National Australia Day Council from 2000 to 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Curry https://www.sbs.com.au/ond/program/who-do-you-think-you-are

23.01.2022 For those of us with German families who settled in Queensland, this two-hour webinar hosted by the State Library of Queensland promises to be of interest. Note that booking is required. Here are the details: Land! Lots of Land! Webinar on Monday, 31 August between 10am-12pm. Speakers:... Kaye Nardella, Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying Niles Elvery, Senior Archivist, Queensland State Archives Annabel Lloyd, Brisbane City Council Archives Stephanie Ryan, State Library of Queensland Each speaker will describe the land records held by their respective organisations and how to make the most of those resources. Booking required: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/land-lots-land-webinar

22.01.2022 Did you know that the ladies from Barosssa German Language Association Singkreis feature in the 2020 Adelaide Biennial? Find out how Australian artist Julian Day invited the group to be part of his work "A Civic Space" and listen to the live performance on March 1 in Adelaide

20.01.2022 Remembering the past

19.01.2022 The Jennings Germans story exhibition will be held at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, 15 FEB 202018 JUL 2020

17.01.2022 Link to a webinar - Untangle the Web of German Websites Untangle the Web of German Websites Hopefully you find it useful. https://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=743

17.01.2022 World Wars I and II affected Australians of German ancestry in different ways. Some enlisted and fought alongside their fellow Australians while at the other extreme, some were incarcerated in various camps around Australia. In Regional Victoria a Military History Trail has been set up. This includes the Graytown POW camp, the Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum, and the Tatura German War Cemetery. See https://www.strathbogie.vic.gov.au//tourism/military-histo for details.

17.01.2022 ONLINE WESTFALEN CONNECTION SESSION Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST online via Zoom The purpose of the Online Westfalen Connection Session is to offer a casual opportunity to meet others who are researching in Westphalia and to provide an open forum for questions and discussion about any topics related to research in the region. Members of the Westfälische Gesellschaft für Genealogie und Familienforschung genealogical society... will give an introduction to doing research in Westphalia and will be available to answer your questions about research methods and resources. In preparation for the Online Westfalen Connection Session, it would be helpful if you would email any questions and/or topics that you would especially like to cover during the meeting to [email protected] You will need to register for the session. Unfortunately the timing isn't the most convenient for those of us in Australia - Sunday 6 December at 2:00 a.m. in Perth 3:30 a.m. in Darwin 4:00 a.m. in Brisbane 4:30 a.m. in Adelaide 5:00 a.m. in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney

15.01.2022 Clara Serena Clara Serena (1890-1972), contralto, was born on 9 June 1890 at Lobethal, South Australia, and registered as Clara Serena Hulda, daughter of Lutheran parents Hermann Franz Kleinschmidt, farmer, and his wife Ida Wilhelmine Mathilde, née Seiler. Hermann's father Friedrich Wilhelm had migrated from the German free city of Bremen in 1836. When Clara was aged 14, the pastoralist Peter Waite recognized her potential, took her into his family and established the 'Serena... Trust' to provide for her education. She received tuition with Guli Hack at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide. Waite's daughter Elizabeth became her friend and acted as chaperone when Kleinschmidt won a conservatorium scholarship in 1908 to the Royal College of Music, London, where J. H. Blower and Albert Visetti were her teachers. She qualified in 1911 with a diploma with credit, and after further study in Italy and Germany she took the name 'Clara Serena' in 1913. https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/7615 https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/7661

13.01.2022 An interesting read

13.01.2022 For those who are searching German ancestors, here is a link with handouts that can be downloaded to help translate documents you may have. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Germany_Handwriting ub7T34y9D32w0azjMNQaWYQdQUU9U3OgiBIBJfzPmWMPdE

12.01.2022 Saturday 26 September. 10 a.m. to 12 noon (Brisbane time) The Queensland Family History Society’s Central European Interest Group. Free online presentation and meeting. Peter Row will present a talk entitled "The roads we travel" with the meeting to follow,... Visitors are welcome. If you wish to attend, please email: [email protected] by Thursday 24 September for a link to the session. See more

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Australian of the Year, Dr James Muecke. With a name like Muecke, and being from South Australia, suggests that there must be some German heritage in there somewhere!

10.01.2022 Queensland Family History Society has just released some new searchable online datasets, including notices from the News Budget - Deutsche Beilage. What is the News Budget - Deutsche Beilage, I hear you ask? The Queenslander News-Budget was a newspaper that provided a weekly compilation of stories about local and foreign events, with an emphasis on material to interest those in rural districts. Commencing about 1906, it included a four-page German language supplement entitle...d Deutsche Beilage that continued until prohibited by the government in 1917. As it was printed in German and the old Fraktur typeface, the material contained in the Beilage is not easy to access for many Australian researchers. The late Les Moreland read and translated the articles in this database, and Noel Bergman computerised the information. These articles, taken from issues between 1908 and 1910, may give information not available elsewhere. Many names are mentioned in the ‘Topic’ field that are not listed under the Surname/Given names fields. To find these entries, use the Keyword Search. If you would like to try out the database, go to https://www.qfhs.org.au/online-access/qnbdb/ but you will need your QFHS login and password to use it. Don’t forget. For successful searching in this database, enter the surname or place that you are interested into the keyword search box!

09.01.2022 Applications are now open for the 2020-21 round of the Army History Research Grants Scheme. Established in 1993, the Australian Army History Research Grants Scheme supports and encourages research into the Australian Army’s history and development both on operations and during peace. The Scheme is open to both academic and non-academic researchers, and grants are up to a maximum of $15,000.00 for one year. The Australian Army and Australian Army History Unit (AAHU) values new research that identifies how Army specifically has approached challenges in the past, and which is accessible to both Army and the public. https://www.army.gov.au//aust/army-history-research-grants

06.01.2022 Some reading for you https://iggp.org//Newsletters/2020-09-1_IGGP_newsletter.pdf

04.01.2022 Friends of the Lutheran Archives Adelaide, Meeting Monday 21st Sept. Miners from the Harz Mountains in Germany to Australia the 1st wave 1845 1847. Why did they come, how could they afford the journey & where did they mine?... Janette Lange, Archivist at Lutheran Archives will be the guest speaker at the first FoLA meeting since February. Meeting at Bethlehem House, Sudholz Place ADELAIDE, 7.30 pm on Monday 21st Sept. All welcome, gold coin donation. Because of COVID-19 requirements, if you plan on attending, please register beforehand with Helen Schubert on 8364 4350, 0447 740 711 or email [email protected] Engraving depicting lead miners in the Harz Mountains, Germany. Dated 19th century

04.01.2022 The German history of this classic Queenslander in Cooroy

03.01.2022 An opportunity exists for some financial assistance for NSW projects. Grants of up to $5000 are available and help support the work by local historical societies, community organisations and individuals across New South Wales. Projects should be relevant to understanding the history of New South Wales and its people and places. The main priority areas for the 2020 grant round are migrant history and disaster recovery and conservation of collections due to the New South Wales bushfires.

01.01.2022 A list of webinars being put on by the Germanic Genealogy Society. If you are interested in the webinar by Kim Ashford, on German Research Online, to give you some idea of the time - in Adelaide South Australia the webinar would be Fri, Jan 15, 2021 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM ACDT https://ggsmn.org/eventListings.php

01.01.2022 Interesting bit of history