Botany Bay Family History Society

Botany Bay Family History Society It is an affiliate library with Familysearch.org giving members access to millions of worldwide records. The Research Centre is manned by volunteers.

Research Your Heritage - whether it is local, interstate or international BBFHS holds and has access to extensive research resources with great volunteers to help you along the way A new requirement of visitors to our research library is that if they are not already expected that day by our volunteers that they phone to confirm that the volunteers will be there after noon on the days the centre is open

Our Research Centre and Library is located in Caringbah South. Members also enjoy no-charge access to the subscriptions sites of Ancestry.com (World), FindMyPast (UK, Australasia and Ireland), The Genealogist, Biographical Database of Australia, Internet History Resources, the British Newspaper Archives as well as the many free genealogy sites available on the internet. Our monthly meetings are now held on Zoom with occasional face to face meetings. Zoom meetings have allowed the society to access international and interstate speakers to address our members. There are Special Interest Groups covering DNA, Australian, English, Irish and Scottish research plus Writing and family history programmes including Legacy, Family Tree Maker and Reunion for Mac. Most of these activities were held by Zoom meetings however some meetings are now being held as hybrid with both Zoom and face to face - full details on our website. BBFHS journal, The Endeavour, is published quarterly while a fortnightly E-Newsletter keeps members up to date with all the latest news in the family history world.

30/08/2025

In this post I'll explain some recent updates to the DNA matrix tool, including new sorting and display options.

26/08/2025
23/08/2025

Are you storing your family history safely? 📦🖼️

Your family archive might be tucked away in a cupboard, shoebox or photo album — filled with birth and marriage certificates, handwritten letters, cards, and photos.

Learn how to care for them with our simple guides on:

📄 Storing paper documents
📸 Caring for old photographs
📖 Creating a scrapbook or time capsule

Protect your family's history for generations to come! Find out how: https://bit.ly/3GTB4sC

Image: A collection of records on display at National Archives of Australia, Canberra.

20/08/2025

Discovering the GENUKI Site:

GENUKI (https://www.genuki.org.uk/ - United Kingdom and Ireland Genealogy) is an extensive site that has research resources for all British and Irish countries.

For example, the England page has links to 54 separate research topics. GENUKI also has an excellent Getting Started page (https://www.genuki.org.uk/gs). Other helpful resources include links to county pages, a directory of churches, and a gazetteer. The site also has a search feature, site map and navigation aids for users.

20/08/2025

Create timelines to organise and store your Scotland’s People discoveries.

You can add records, arrange and filter them as required.

Find out how 👇

bit.ly/TimelinesSP

29/07/2025

Learn how to expand your research using Trove
Experts will be on site at the Conference. Trove on Friday, 12, and Saturday, 13 September.

22/07/2025

Lydham Hall in "The Leader"

Thanks to the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader for their article about our next Lydham Hall Open Day on Sunday, 3 August.

Everyone is welcome at our Historic House Museum at 18 Lydham Avenue, Rockdale for a celebration of Scottish culture.

The St George Sutherland Scottish Pipe Band will perform at midday and we're serving a Scottish favourites in the cafe, including Haggis, Square Sausage, and Orange Marmalade and Whisky Cake with Cream.

Read the article on "The Leader" website:
https://www.theleader.com.au/story/9018133/enjoy-live-scottish-tunes-at-lydham-hall-rockdale/

and plan your visit and book tickets at:
https://stgeorgehistsoc.org.au/lydham-hall/

LYDHAM HALL HISTORIC HOUSE MUSEUM
18 Lydham Avenue, Rockdale
Sunday, 3 August 2025
10am - 4pm

Tell all your friends to join us for this interesting day.
21/07/2025

Tell all your friends to join us for this interesting day.

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184 Gannons Road South
Caringbah, NSW
2229

Telephone

61 2 9523 8948

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BBFHS was formed in 1984 and is located in the Sutherland Shire, approximately 30km south of the Sydney CBD in New South Wales Australia. The society's memberships usually hovers around 500 members. Our Research Centre and Library is located in Caringbah South. Members enjoy no-charge access to the subscriptions sites of Ancestry.com (World), FindMyPast (UK, Australasia and Ireland), The Genealogist, Biographical Database of Australia, Internet History Resources, the British Newspaper Archives as well as the many free genealogy sites available on the internet. The Research Centre is open and manned by helpful volunteers Monday, Wednesday and Fridays 10am - 4pm and Saturday 10am - 2pm. BBFHS’s journal, the Endeavour is published quarterly. A monthly newsletter is handed out at monthly meetings The Botany Bay Bulletin which has all the activities for the coming month. An E-Newsletter for members is emailed to members regularly to inform them of new data bases available, plus any events which are coming up. All of which keep members up to date with all the latest news in the family history world. Classes on a wide rage of subjects are given and Special Interest Groups are held regularly for Australian, English, Irish, Scottish research, Writers, Social Media and the major family history programmes. The details and times for these are all under events on our website http://www.botanybayfhs.org.au/

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