Liverpool Genealogy Society Inc.
LIVERPOOL, NSW, AUSTRALIA
"Where Family History Matters"
2020 EVENTS
INDEX
Liverpool Regional Museum re-opens at 10 am, 2 January 2020
Liverpool Genealogy Society - Our workroom re-opens at 10 am, 7 January 2020
Australia Day 2020: Videos
Liverpool City Council: Australia Day Event - Sunday 26th January 2020
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives Free talk - Saturday 1 February 2020
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Judith Dunn - Then and There Lying Dead - Saturday 7 march 2020
Easter Raffle - Tickets for our annual Easter raffles are available in our workroom.
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Easter 10 to 13 April - LGS workroom closed for Easter Holiday Weekend.
ANZAC DAY – Liverpool Regional Museum & Family History Centre - LGS workroom closed Saturday 25 April 2020
ANZAC DAY – Liverpool Dawn Service Saturday 25 April 2020
Anzac Day 2020: Saturday 25 April 2020 - Videos
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Mother's Day - Sunday 10 May 2020.
Sorry Day - Tuesday 26 May 2020, Liverpool Regional Museum Event to be advised.
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Queen's Birthday Weekend - public holiday 8 June 2020.
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Family History Month:
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Father's Day - Sunday 6 September 2020
NSW and ACT Association of Family History Societies 2020 Annual Conference
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Labour Day Weekend - public holiday 5 October 2020
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
Remembrance Day 2020: Wednesday 11 November 2020
LGS Meeting - see Meetings and Events
JANUARY EVENTS
Liverpool Genealogy Society CLOSED
LGS will reopen on Tuesday 7 January 2020 at 10 am
The society workrooms are closed over the Christmas break from Saturday 14 December 2020 until Tuesday 7 January 2020.
The Society's workrooms will reopen for the 2020 year on the 7 January 2020 at 10 am.
The Centre remains open for visitors during January except for the public holidays.
Volunteers will be on their Christmas break during this time and will resume as voluntary assistants when the LGS workroom reopens on 7 January 2020.
For assistance see contact details
AUSTRALIA DAY 2020
Sunday 26 January 2020
Liverpool Regional Family History Centre, Liverpool Genealogy Society and Liverpool Regional Museum will be closed on Australia Day Sunday 26 January 2020 and will reopen for business on Tuesday 28 January 2020 at 10 am.
We are open Tuesdays to Saturdays 10 am - 4 pm and closed on public holidays.
Australia Day 2020
Australia Day 2020
I am, you are, we are Australian
Australian of the Year 2020: Dr James Muecke
Australian of the Year Awards 2019: Australian of the Year | ABC News
Celebrating the Sydney Harbour Bridge
FEBRUARY EVENTS
FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING
Saturday 2nd February 2019 10.30 am
Welcome to the first LGS General Meeting for 2020.
Our guest speaker will be commencing her talk at 11.30 am after our meeting.
Guest speaker: Karen Grega
Free talk: When negatives become positives
Day: Saturday, 1 February 2020
Time: 11.30 am - 1 pm
Venue: Liverpool Genealogy Society, Liverpool Regional Museum
As part of Beyond The Tree Exhibition, Karen will take the audience through her recent trip to Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, where she traveled to in search of answers and missing pieces to this story, as part of her family history research.
More information - Liverpool City Library
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Vasyl Grega (right) and unknown displaced person (left) from Displaced Persons Camp, Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Market Place Ludwigsburg, Germany 1949.
A meeting place for many Czech, Slovak and Polish displaced persons awaiting resettlement as advised by Karen Grega.
Photographer Mikulas Grega brother of Vasyl Grega.
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Ludwigsburg market place 2019
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Dr Kerstin Hofmann, Research Associate Tracing, Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution, Germany, showing me the original documents from 1949/50 from my father’s processing as a Displaced Person by the International Refugee Organisation.
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Ludwigsburg Museum staff researching some buildings that were in my father’s photos
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Emichsburg Tower, Ludwigsburg 1949 – my father’s photo
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Emichsburg Tower, Ludwigsburg - my recent trip in September 2019
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Meeting in Prague with Dr. Martin Nekola who received his doctorate in political science at Charles University Prague, Czech Republic with a Research interest in Czech refugees in Displaced Persons Camps in Germany, Austria and Italy after the Communist coup in 1948.
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Karen Grega - When negatives become positives
Free talk: When negatives becomes positives
Day: Saturday, 1 February 2020
Time: 11.30 am
Venue: Liverpool Genealogy Society, Liverpool Regional Museum
More information: Liverpool City Library
Photograph courtesy of the Grega Family
Have you an ancestor who was a displaced person?
Some helpful websites found on the Liverpool Family History Centre's website under Suggested Sites/Military, Army & Navy
WORLD - DISPLACE PERSONS' CAMPS
The DPC site has a table of contents with links to all displace camps around the world after WWII.
GERMANY - INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE
The ITS organization, based in Germany, has a unbelievable amount of records on victims and survivors of Nazi persecutions in their archives.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES of AUSTRALIA - Destination Australia
Sharing our post-war migrant stories.
MARCH EVENTS
MARCH GENERAL MEETING
Saturday 7th March 2020 10.00 am
The meeting today will commence at 10.00 a.m. with the general business of the society, and Peter Allen will open a discussion on the changes to our Constitution.
Guest Speaker: Judith Dunn
Free Talk: Then and There Lying Dead
Time: 11.30 am to 1 pm.
Venue: Liverpool Genealogy Society, Liverpool Regional Museum
Then and There Lying Dead - murders, inquests, accidents, and gossip in Sydney’s Greater West is Judith Dunn’s latest book, a collection of bizarre happenings and incidents that amuse enlighten and divert.
Join Judith as she talks about her book and learn about the events that show the tumultuous nature of the early colonial period of Australia's history.
Judith is a writer and renowned Parramatta cemetery tour guide who has written eight books on Australian history and in 2011 received an OAM for her services to history and heritage.
Light luncheon will be provided after the talk.
WE ARE CLOSED OVER THE EASTER WEEKEND
GOOD FRIDAY - 10 April
EASTER SATURDAY - 11 April
EASTER SUNDAY - 12 April
EASTER MONDAY - 13 April
WISHING EVERYONE A SAFE & HOLY EASTER
OUR WORK ROOM WILL REOPEN ON
TUESDAY 14 APRIL 10 am
ANZAC DAY
Saturday 25th April 2020
Liverpool Regional Museum and Family History Centre plus the LGS workroom will be closed today and will reopen Tuesday 28th May 2020 at 10 am.
Saturday, 25 April 2020 5.30 am - 9 am
To commemorate Anzac Day, a Dawn Service will be held at Bigge Park, Liverpool.
Anzac Day
Anzac Day
The Lost Diggers | Never before seen photos of Australia's World War I soldiers | Sunday Night
Rare War Footage from The Boer War (1899) | War Archives
Boer War Documentary
Australian Women in War
MOTHERS DAY
SUNDAY 10th MAY 2020
JUNE EVENTS
FATHERS DAY
SUNDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2020
OCTOBER EVENTS
