Greetings everyone, our December newsletter is now available and you can read it online. Catch up with all the latest news via the Orange Family History Group newspage: http://www.ofhg.com.au/pdfs/December%202011.pdf

And what a bumper edition it is. We have lots of interesting research snippets to tell you about as well as an update on our newspaper indexing project, tips on collecting information, holiday opening times, the National Year of Reading 2012 and much more.......Enjoy!

Greetings everyone, our August newsletter is now available and you can read it online. Catch up with all the latest news via the Orange Family History Group newspage: http://www.ofhg.com.au/pdfs/August-Newsletter-2011.pdf

Find out about FamiySearch Internationl Research, Australian Generations Oral History Project, see if you can help with locating Orange photos for a new book by Lis Edwards, there are also details about the Underwood family reunion, Centenary of WWI news and find out who your street is named after and more....

Our April Newsletter is now available and you can read it online. There is an update about our latest locally published book In Sickness and In Health: How Medicine helped shape Orange's history, learn about our creative seniors, an interesting 150th anniversary relating to the Abercrombie Ranges, a Steward line "brick wall" crumbles, dates for your diary, websites we like, news on Irwin and Maley families and research enquiries that you may be able to assist us with. Catch up with all the latest on our Orange Family History Group news page: http://www.ofhg.com.au/news.htm

Best wishes for the festive season to you and your families. And you can catch up with all the latest news: Christmas/New Year Opening Hours, Medical History Book - In Sickness and in Health, The Central Western Daily Index, Latest on Ancestry.com, Searching for settlers & grazing stock, Index to Gaol Photograph Description Book for Maitland Gaol, Additional digital copies of Assisted Passenger lists 1854 - 57, Research enquiries and Shirley's Family History in the December Newsletter on our Orange Family History Group news page: http://www.ofhg.com.au/pdfs/December%202010.pdf Enjoy!

It's time to start thinking about contributions for your next Newsletter which will be published in April. Items for this edition should be with us by Friday 13 March 2009. You can hand deliver to the Library or email us at familyhistory@orange.nsw.gov.au

So pens to paper (or fingers to keyboard!).