Learn@QFHS

Learn The Education Sub-Committee organises a number of workshops and training courses. In the current situation, these events are held online.These sessions focus mainly on the different aspects of the Resources collections, but can include other related topics. Limited places available for each session, so bookings are essential.

For further information, or suggestions for training course topics, contact Education.

Cost per Workshop/Course

Presentation mode
$15 members (QFHS and GSQ)	$25 Non-Members
Hand-on mode
$20 members (QFHS and GSQ)	$30 Non-Members
Finding your Family
$60 members (QFHS and GSQ)	$90 Non-Members

How to book for Learn@QFHS

Terms and Conditions

Presentations will be recorded where indicated. These recordings will be available only to those who have registered and paid before the event.

Event/Presenter

Date

Limit

When ‘life story’ becomes ‘life history’ - an oral history approach.

Presenter: Dr Maree Ganley

Oral history is the collection of stories and reminiscences of people who have firsthand knowledge of any number of experiences. The starting point of Maree’s latest work, The Long Road to School, Sea Pictures of a Convent Boarding School, was the collection of life stories that she gathered. The work is in keeping with qualitative research methodology, with multiple approaches and types of oral history. There is an extensive pedagogy behind oral history and gathering personal recollections.

Oral history extends the boundaries of traditional history.

Maree has approached the task of establishing a continuous and cohesive record of 140 years of diocesan history under the main threads and themes of origin, engagement, leadership and culture. These elements are viewed firstly through the lens of ‘public memory’ in archives, library shelves, newspapers and academic discourse. Secondly, there is ‘personal memory’ or oral history of the personal recollections of religious beliefs and practices of people of all ages and cultural backgrounds, as a diversity of experiences, perspectives, interpretations and subjectivities.

Our speaker: Dr Maree Ganley

Register Online

Wednesday, 8 May 2024
10:00 am - 11:30 am AEST (GMT+10) No daylight saving

Finding your family: the fundamentals of research

Presenter: QFHS Tutors

This event will be delivered online.

This six week course will be very comprehensive for someone wanting to start researching their family history, but unsure of the process. Content will include sources, methodology, organisation, repositories, DNA, and much more. Registrations will be limited to 10 people.

$60.00 members and $90.00 non-members (see inclusions below)

The cost includes:

The book, Where do I start?: a brief guide to researching your family in Australia and New Zealand by Shauna Hicks 2nd Edition (rrp $25).
For non-members, complimentary use of the QFHS Library and Resource Centre and members area of the website for the term of the course.

Please note: This is a daytime course 10:30 pm - 12:00 pm AEST (GMT+10)

The course accommodates 10 participants only.

Ticket sales close on Monday, 1 July 2024.

Presenters: QFHS Tutors

The dates are:

Monday 8 July 2024
Monday 15 July 2024
Monday 22 July 2024
Monday 29 July 2024
Monday 5 August 2024
Monday 12 August 2024

What our past participants say...

Thank you for a wonderful course and I look forward to joining in on many more in the future.

Yes this course met my expectations and more.

This course helped me focus on my research and organising records

Please read our cancellation and non-attendance policy

Register Online

Commences Monday 8 July 2024 weekly for six weeks
10:30 am - 12:00 pm AEST (QLD time - no daylight saving)