Caloundra Family History

02/02/2026

Available on Zoom: 5-week workshop to take your English family history research further. Free to members and $10 per session ($50.00 total) for guests. Details on the website:

Shauna Hicks OAM, one of the Caloundra Family History Patrons, will lead a 5-week workshop on researching in England.

18/01/2026

Welcome to one of the new Caloundra Family History Patrons - Roy Henzell, Sunshine Coast business man and supporter of local community.

Welcome to one of the new Caloundra Family History Patrons - Roy Henzell, Sunshine Coast business man and supporter of local community.

18/01/2026

Meet Shauna Hicks OAM - one of the new Caloundra Family History patrons.

Caloundra Family History is proud to have Shauna Hicks OAM as one of our patrons. Shauna is a key figure in Australian Family History.

14/01/2026

On January 15, 2026, we have a diverse lineup of topics, featuring a series of short talks by members sharing insights into their family history journeys.
The meeting is from 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm at the Caloundra Family History Rooms at Corbould Park, the home of the Sunshine Coast Turf Club.
Potential members are welcome to attend the meeting and have a tour. Contact our membership officer by email [email protected] to arrange. More details on our website:
https://caloundrafamilyhistory.org.au/events/members-meetings-2026-01-15/

15/09/2025

A popular free genealogy newsletter is Lost Cousins. You can also join LostCousins as a standard membership, which includes the newsletter, is free.
Here is a link to the September newsletter to check out.

The LostCousins newsletter is usually published 2 or 3 times a month. To access the previous issue (dated 1st September) click here; to find earlier articles use the customised Google search between this paragraph and the next (it searches ALL of the newsletters since February 2009, so you don't ne...

14/09/2025

Caloundra Family History has several Interest Group meetings every month. For example, the FamilySearch Interest Group meets on the 3rd Monday of the month from 10.00 am to Noon and is free as part of a CFH membership. The next meeting is on Monday, 15 September. More details online:
https://caloundrafamilyhistory.org.au/events/10673-2025-09-15/

13/09/2025

Archaeologists complete largest mass exhumation in Australian history from old cemetery under The Hutchins School in Hobart, Tasmania.

After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there would likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard. But the scale of what the archaeological team found was staggering — and the job of putting names to the many bones was "like a giant puzzle".