The Ghost Volume 24 Issue 10 Editor: David Beddie & Helen Kirwin E-Mail: [email protected] November 2020 Official Newsletter of the Campbelltown District Family History Society. Website: www.cdfhs.org.au Campbelltown Denise’s Social Column Websites of Interest District Family There are no Social column comments at * FamilySearch - Finding Elusive Records History Society the moment. on FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/find Events that had been planned have been ing-elusive-records/ ABN 88 944 738 687 postponed. If a basic search on FamilySearch.org is Regards the only approach you use to find your Meetings held on the First ancestors, you might be missing out on a Denise Baxter lot of potential discoveries. The records Saturday of each month you can find by performing basic searches (except January) Social Secretary. represent only a small portion of what’s [email protected] available on FamilySearch. In fact, 77 percent of the free historical Place: In the Meeting Room, ——————– records on FamilySearch.org can’t be Campbelltown Suspension of Activities found by searching. That’s a lot of information about your family just waiting Library. Due to the suspension of some library to be discovered! In order to tap into these services at the H. J. Daley Library due to hard-to-find records, you’ll need to know Time: 1.30 pm Covid-19, Campbelltown District Family how to use resources like unindexed image History Society advises that General collections and the FamilySearch catalog, Meeting set down for November has been as well as some more advanced search ALL WELCOME cancelled. The Christmas party that was features. planned for December, has also be cancelled. * FamilySearch - United States Border Annual Membership Crossings from Canada to United States, Subscriptions: In addition, CDFHS will not be providing 1895-1956 https://www.familysearch.org/search/colle Single...............$20 volunteers in the Family History Room until further notice. ction/1803785 Couple.............$30 This database contains an index of aliens Please see our website for further notices. and citizens crossing into the U.S. from Name Badges..$8 ea Canada via various ports of entry along the ——————– U.S.-Canadian border between 1895 and Campbelltown District FHS Inc 1956. Data courtesy of Ancestry.com. Meetings and Events Courses for 2020 - 2021 Due to current circumstances, we do not * World Digital Library (WDL) November, 2020 know when courses will be held again. https://www.wdl.org/en/ Saturday 7th November. We will advise further. The World Digital Library (WDL) makes At Campbelltown Library. available on the Internet, free of charge CANCELLED. We anticipate that the courses that we and in multilingual format, significant wanted to hold in 2020 may be held in primary materials from countries and December, 2020 2021. cultures around the world. Saturday 5th December. Several course topics will probably be: Christmas Party. * Ancestry Academy * Beginners. CANCELLED. https://www.ancestryacademy.com/browse * Brick Walls. Free online lectures on a variety of February, 2021 genealogical topics. Saturday 6th February. BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. At Campbelltown Library. Email: [email protected] * Use A Genealogy Timeline To Find Gaps To be advised. 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