e-Muster August 2012 - Central Coast Family History Society Inc.

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Journal of the Central Coast Family History Society Inc. EDITORIAL Rhonda Cetta-Hoye wrote what a bumper issue our last e-Muster was. Well this issue is just as good with a variety of stories one The Hall Seat by Warwick Forrest inspired by our Speaker in July. Margaret Ertner leads us on a merry old chase using reference material in our Library and a trip to the Mitchell in Sydney. I welcome new contributors, Warwick Forrest, Julie Aitchison (does anyone have any early photos of Umina?), Carolyn Elwin, Carolyn Kingsmill, Trish Michael and June Dawson, I thank my stallwarts, Margaret Ertner, Heather Sushames, Marlene Davidson and Karys Fearon Sorry Karys I didn’t have room for your complete story this issue but we will continue it in December. After a long time I managed to find an interesting tit bit when going back through an old folder looking for something else, as you do! This information could be handy for Northumberland and Durham researchers. I have had a few problems producing this edition and found the need to retype most of it over again. Please contributors just send your copy along without Word editing by someone else. Discuss it with anyone before sending it on, but please do not add any hidden formatting which can cause me stress. This Muster has taken me all day to prepare for the final proofreading when it should only take a couple of hours. Kay Radford - Editor Muster Muster Cover: Our Cottage Page Page No: No: 1 The Muster – August August 2012 2012 2012
The Muster – August 20 2012 20 2012 12 Journal of the Central Coast Family History Society Inc. PRESIDENT’S PIECE It’s great to be able to travel overseas and, despite the jet-lag on our return, we can rely on modern aircraft to get us to the other side of the world much more quickly than our first journeys there forty-six years ago when the mode of travel was a slow boat! In case you hadn’t missed us, Karys and I have just spent ten weeks based at our son’s flat in London but with side trips to many counties and three nearby countries. The main purpose was twofold: to do some holiday sightseeing and to continue investigating the more difficult parts of the family tree. As we visited Archives Centres, Registry Offices and Family History Societies we realised just how privileged we all are here on the Central Coast to be served and helped by the hard working team at our Centre. Our facilities here are top class and as you know are being added to all the time. Do try to get to the Centre as often as you can and discover what is available, even in this Age of the Internet. Your society really is at the cutting edge of family history research. Being on the go for ten weeks makes the selection of highlights none too easy. As tourists we loved the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the Thames (no rain where we were, near the start) and were amazed at the presentation at the new Titanic Museum in Belfast. If you are ever in London, do some of the London Walks, two-hour guided adventures into the culture and history of parts of the city that many visitors never see. We did ten of them and only wished we could have fitted in a lot more. We explored Plymouth and Portsmouth in some cold sunshine and spent a memorable week in the Faroe Islands where the sun did shine, and set at 11.20 pm, and where the eighteen islands are connected by undersea tunnels and ferries. In London we saw two West End shows, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap and joined the crowd to watch Henry V at The Globe Theatre. We were blown away by the breathtaking beauty of Bacharach, a village on the Rhine, where we had two nights’ accommodation, travelling to and fro on local trains from Cologne to Mainz. Our family history forays in England and Ireland are too numerous to mention here so we hope to cover the findings and methods at meetings in the months ahead. On the subject of meetings we are looking for speakers for September and November this year. Unfortunately for us we have missed Page No: 2
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