For queries go to people on the below list. (If you are researching family and other BH history, see last paras below under 'Research'.) Note: It helps us help you if you email or phone directly one of the contacts below. Mosque Museum queries: Caretaker Bobby Shamroze at [email protected] or 0400 184 260. You can contact Bobby with queries about the Mosque Museum and for the local history of the Afghans, the cameleers and the Mosque, and any family history relating to a cameleer background. Silverton Gaol Museum queries: Coordinator Ross Wecker at .[email protected] or 0476 165 716. Silverton School Educational Museum queries: Coordinator Marlene Bettes at [email protected] or 0448 882 550. You can also contact Marlene with queries about Silverton's general history, and Silverton's family history. Synagogue of the Outback Museum queries: Coordinator Margaret Price at [email protected] or 0439 680 944. Margaret has been for a long time the person who you usually find on this page. You can contact her with research queries on Jewish or general Broken Hill regional history, and re Broken Hill family history. Society media
Gary Cook is Journal Editor. Contact Gary on [email protected]] for contributions to the Society Journal. Administration
General administrative queries: Membership, meetings, constitution ONLY please: Secretary Helen Daly, Mail to PO Box 212, Broken Hill, 2880 and [email protected]
Queries to the President, Jim Daly, go to 0417 280 974. RESEARCH
There are many paths to researching Broken Hill history depending on what kind of history you are researching. Family History
For family history you should try the Broken Hill Family History Group: a long existing group with a huge number of family history archives. Contact Jenny Camilleri at 0419 861 153 or [email protected] or at their office on 08 8088 1266. Jenny suggests the best way to get her quickly is to call her mobile. The Family History Group office is open from 10am to 2.30 pm Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. General Broken Hill and region research
You'll see from above contacts that in the Historical Society itself you can contact Margaret Price, who is one of the Society's most senior and long-term members on both general and family history. Within the Society too, you can contact Marlene Bettes and Bobby Shamroze, on aspects of both general and family history re Silverton and cameleer history. The Hill also has a marvellous City Council Library Archive. Just now it's closed for digitising, but when it re-opens it can be contacted on [email protected] and 08 8080 3460. You can try it on general and family history. And don't forget the many BH pages that collect local history, both family and general: Just one is Broken Hill - Our Pictorial History at https://www.facebook.com/groups/650279221670179
