This Saturday we’ll be honouring a great #Aboriginal #Australian by renaming the #Lilyfield Community Centre the Jimmy Little Community Centre. Jimmy was an outstanding entertainer, educator and activist, and a cherished neighbour and friend in the Lilyfield Community. There’ll be a great #free #family fun day with a #Kids Zoo, craft activities, face painting, music, clown, information and refreshments. The official renaming ceremony will be at 12:30. We hope to see you there. http://bit.ly/1j0mvvh
Full details on all upcoming activities at http://www.sag.org.au/ Unless otherwise advertised, all activities are held on the top floor of ‘Richmond Villa’, 120 Kent St and are limited to 40 bookings. We regret there is NO disabled access to this area. Prices are shown as Member/Non-member price – when booking online please note that a discount code is no longer needed for members as the price code shown now relates to the non-member price.
When
Time
Title/Presentation
Price
Brief Description
Wed 4 Dec 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
The Griffiths Valuation and its survey maps and the wonders within - Hilary Walker
$20 / $30
The Griffith Valuation (overseen by Richard Griffith & published between 1847 & 1864) was the first full scale valuation of property in Ireland. The Index gives us occupiers’ names, parish and townland with survey map numbers identifying individual properties. Hilary will demonstrate how to make the most of these maps, locating information about your ancestors and the farms, houses, or cottages that they occupied.
Sat 7 Dec 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Social Media for Family Historians - Carole Riley
$20 / $30
The internet is a medium for social interaction as well as a source of information. Social media tools such as such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and blogs enable family historians to find and communicate with friends and family around the world to share research, family news and photos. This session will introduce tools that can help with research into family both past and present, and how to recognise and avoid the dangers.
Sat 7 Dec 120 Kent St
1.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Historical photographs of places online – postponed from 7th Sept
- Kerry Farmer
$20 / $30
Historical photographs reveal the character of a place and challenge our preconceptions. Comparing old and new can provide fascinating insights. This session concentrates on the Historypin website, but also examines other historical photographic collections such as Flickr, Trove and NSW State Record’s Photo Investigator.
Thu 12 Dec 120 Kent St
10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Getting Started on your Family History - December
- Kerry Farmer
$10
Limit 10
Members only
For new members with no family history research experience.
Learn the basics of how to start researching and what to do.
Sat 14 Dec 2/379 Kent St
9.00 am – 10.00 am
Library Orientation Tour
- December
Free
Members only
Join us for a tour of the SAG library – learn about its layout and the services offered. Why not stay on after the tour and do research!
Celia Heritage, UK professional genealogist, will discuss how to find English wills & probate records and how they can add extra depth and knowledge to your family research.
January 2014
Thu 9 Jan 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Apprenticeships in England
- Pauline Kettle
$20 / $30
Pauline Kettle will demonstrate how to research English apprenticeships using both the SAG’s library collection and online resources, such as English Origins.
Sat 11 Jan 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
2014 – An organised approach to your family history!
- Bruce Fairhall & Heather Garnsey
$20 / $30
Need more time for family history? Need to be more organised?
Heather Garnsey will show how by setting research targets you can progress your family history in 2014, while Bruce will demonstrate how important good recordkeeping is - an organised family historian is a successful one!
Wed 15 Jan Your Place
8.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Webinar:
Irish Online – What’s new?
- Cora Num
$10
Members only
Focussing on new websites & resources for Irish research and how to use them, Cora will help further your research on the internet with this webinar.
Thu 16 Jan
2/379 Kent St
9:00 -10:00am
Library Orientation Tour
- January
Free
Members only
Join us for a tour of the SAG library – learn about its layout and the services offered. Why not stay on after the tour and do research!
Fri 17 Jan 2/379 Kent St
10.30 am - 12.30 pm
Family Search - Hands On
- Vicki Eldridge
$30 / $45 Limit 14
The FamilySearch website has had many changes recently. In this hands-on session learn how to get better results by refining searches and exploring new features on this essential website.
Sat 18 Jan 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Parish Chest
- Jeremy Palmer
$20 / $30
These records reflect the lives of many of our ancestors in the period up to the mid-19th century and can be an excellent additional source to parish registers. Many hold overseers of the poor accounts, settlement and removal certificates, bastardy documents, constables’ accounts and local land records.
Sat 18 Jan 120 Kent St
1.30 pm - 3.30 pm
Journey around the Journals
- Richard Thomas
$20 / $30
Have you ever sat in the Richmond Villa conference room wondering what is in those journals on the shelves around the walls? The Society is currently reorganising its extensive genealogical and family history journal collection. This lecture will explain how to search the SAG catalogue from home and find out what journals we hold in the library and in Villa stack. You will learn how the collection is organised and have a chance to search for a jewel in the Australian collection.
Wed 22 Jan 120 Kent St
10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Online Resources at State Records NSW including getting the most out of Photo Investigator
- Gail Davis
$20 / $30
The State Records website is becoming a comprehensive starting point for researching family history in New South Wales. Resources include indexes to records, the catalogue Archives Investigator, Photo Investigator, guides to using the NSW State archives and more. Whether you are researching at home or planning a visit to our reading room this session will help you to navigate your way around the website.
Leichhardt’s own corner street butcher John Elvy hanging up the apron after 30years of serving the Leichhardt community.
WHEN Leichhardt institution Elvy?s Meats finally closes its doors, it will be the end of an era for the suburb.
For almost 60 years, the family-run butcher’s shop has been serving the choicest cuts to inner west meat lovers.
Owner and local identity John Elvy, 68, has decided to retire to spend more time with his wife Robyn, his two adult children and two grandchildren, and the shop and attached residence is now for sale.
The shop was opened in 1954 by Mr Elvy’s father, Ted, and his mother Marjorie also worked there.
As a child Mr Elvy would help out after school and he and his brother used to deliver meat orders in the area on their bicycles.
Mr Elvy took over the popular business in 1973, and he has seen dramatic changes in the suburb over the years.
“Leichhardt has gone from being very industrial with factories and manufacturing to becoming mostly residential,” he said.
“When we came here in the 50s there was a lot of Italian migration to the suburb and I learnt how to serve our Italian customers by taking them into the cool room and having them point out what they wanted.
“Now there are probably only 20 Italian families that I serve and the number of Italian people has dwindled as they moved on to other suburbs.”
Mr Elvy said he remembered a time when lamb shanks and cutlets were cheap as chips and he has also seen independent butchers struggle to compete with supermarket giants like Coles and Woolworths.
“We have been successful because we ran it as a family business and as a traditional butchery, with all cuts prepared in the traditional way,” he said.
“I have people come at Christmas time from out of town to shop with us and I have seen different generations of the same family. The little ones have grown up now and are coming in with their own families.”
When we think of Leichhardt and Balmain the Italians seem to jump to mind immedietaly for their rich contribution to the local area through fruit shops, cafes and fishing..now we shift our focus slightly and look down the lense of local history at the Greeks in Balmain. Unilever was once a large employer of migrant labour particularly Greek, many fish and chip shops, milk bars and hamburger shops along Darling Street between 1960s -1980s were operated by Greek, Macedonian Greek, Greek Cypriot or Egyption Greek origin.
Three was a Greek Club operating in the terrace hous eat 408 Darling Street. Painted Green and with a sign “GREEK CLUB” was nailed in individual reflective red lettering over the door. The Club began in the 1950s and operated for about 10years, there were also two other Greek Clubs ner the Rozelle Juction. Such clubs were male-only bastions. In the late 1950s and 1960s, an after hours Greek Language schoolwas conducted in the former Presbyterian Church hall by Mrs Pavlou.
Greek and Cypriot immigrants were rarely educated and many arrived with only the clothes on their back and a change of clothes in their suitcase. Whilst some were able to purchse their own businesses, the lot for many was exploitative menial work. Most Greek workers took in lodgers. Greek immigrants were huge purchasers of merchandiser sold at street stall and jumble sale fund raisers that local churches ran in the mid-1960s.
If you have any memories or pictures to share of the Greek club or Greeks in Rozelle and Balmain we would love to hear from you.
This Saturday we’ll be honouring a great #Aboriginal #Australian by renaming the #Lilyfield Community Centre the Jimmy Little Community Centre. Jimmy was an outstanding entertainer, educator and activist, and a cherished neighbour and friend in the Lilyfield Community. There’ll be a great #free #family fun day with a #Kids Zoo, craft activities, face painting, music, clown, information and refreshments. The official renaming ceremony will be at 12:30. We hope to see you there. http://bit.ly/1j0mvvh