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and Regular Visitors
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members and regular visitors, we suggest
you use the drop down menus above the photo to
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heading and select from the drop down options.
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also select from a site search. To
all viewers, we say thank you for your interest
in our web site and we hope you will visit us
often. In fact, why not add this page to your
preferred sites now?
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Contact
Us
Knowing
how to contact us is very important and you will
find a comprehensive list of contact points by
clicking on this page.
If we can be of assistance, please contact us.
E-mail is a very efficient way and telephone
calls are fine too. But please remember that the
library and resource centre is not staffed 24/7.
Our Society is operated entirely by volunteers
who give service over five days and one night
per week. For opening hours, click here.
Our policy is to return only local calls if you
leave a recorded message giving your name and
contact number.
From
all the team at QFHS, good luck with your
research and we hope your visit to this web site
is a rewarding one.
 Handy
tip for all Family Historians
Every time I see a
Church
I pay a little visit;
So when at
last I'm carried in,
The Lord won't say "Who
is it?"
New
QFHS CD
Queensland Cemeteries Monumental Inscriptions
- Pine Rivers District.
This CD
presents an index to the inscriptions on
headstones and plaques in Bunya Cemetery (Bunya
Road, Bunya); Dayboro Cemetery (McKenzie St,
Dayboro); Lawnton Cemetery (Norfolk Ave,
Lawnton); Samford Cemetery (School Rd, Samford
Village); and Samsonvale Cemetery (Golds Scrub
Lane, Samsonvale).more
A Notice To Everyone Who Has
Pre-
Separation Family in
Queensland
Your stories are
required for a new publication!
A wonderful
opportunity has arisen which will enable
everyone who has any family member who resided
within the boundaries of the state of
Queensland, before separation from New South
Wales, to write a short story about them, and
have these stories published in a new CD to be
named Queensland Founding Families:
Biographies of Families who resided in
Queensland before separation from New South
Wales.
Read all about it
here........
QUEENSLAND TO CELEBRATE 150TH ANNIVERSARY IN
2009
History
Queensland encourages their members to think
about what History Queensland can do to
celebrate our history and sesquicentenary (that
is 150 years) in 2009
Have you any
ideas? If so please contact the Secretary of
your local Family History Group or write direct
to:
Secretary of History Queensland Inc.,
Frances Rowe,
at:
frances_historyqueensland@hotmail.com or
ph. 07 3300 4652
Educational
Workshops 2008
Educational Workshops
for 2008 have been scheduled. Read more here.................
Sacred Heart Convent, Yarraman
reunion
For more than twenty post-war years the Sacred Heart Convent in Yarraman was home to as many as 36 boys at a time. They boarded at the convent and attended the catholic primary school next door. On 8 June 2008 many former student boarders and their caring Sisters of Mercy will hold a nostalgic re-union.
The Sacred Heart convent was completed in 1945. The war was almost over and education was in a shambles due to teachers being conscripted for the war effort, so the Mercy nuns, a teaching order of the Catholic Church took up residence in the convent and opened it as a boarding convent for boys. The first intake in June 1945 saw fifteen boys in residence. As many as 36 boys slept in the ground floor dormitory.
For the past ten years the convent has been the home of the Yarraman Historical Society. It is a museum and resource centre and is a magnet for former boarders and staff. They come 'home' to visit. Now known as Heritage House it will host the re-union on June 8.
Gaye Smith is one of the organisers of the re-union and would like to hear from former boarders. She can be contacted on (07) 4163 8137
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Read our
June
newsletter "Snippets" online
here
2008 Calendar of QFHS Events
The 2008 calendar
is here.
About Gaythorne | More about
Gaythorne
Donate to QFHS here
Membership Renewals Now Payable
On-line
Membership
renewals for 2008/2009 are now due and may be
paid by credit card on-line through PayPal.
Click here
to take advantage of this fast and secure method
of payment.
Orientation Sessions 2008
Orientation Sessions
have been scheduled for 2008. Bookings are
essential! Read more here....
QFHS 2008 Calendar of Events
The
Calendar for 2008 has been published and can be
viewed here. Mark
your diary now! | 
