Maltese in Australia

Next week is National Family History Week, in conjunction with the Whittlesea Heritage Program Yarra Plenty Regional Library is encouraging residents with Maltese ancestry or anyone else interested in learning about this to attend

How to research your Maltese Family History
Mill Park Library
394 Plenty Rd, Mill Park, Vic.

Wednesday 5 August
1.30pm - 2.30 pm
The first Maltese to arrive in Australia were convicts. By 2001 Victoria had the largest Maltese community in Australia, many settling in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Come along to this session to learn some tips and strategies for researching your Maltese family history. Presented by Yvonne Izatt of the International Settlers Group of the Genealogical Society of Victoria.

Bookings: 9437 8189

Some websites of interest include:

Photographs of Malta
National Archives of Malta
Maltese Nobility
Maltese Genealogy

Archives In Brief 117 - Maltese migration and settlement in NSW — State Records NSW... Provides an overview of the record series that may be useful in tracing Maltese settlement in NSW. It includes information on searching for individuals within the records illustrated by case study examples.
Gravestone Photographic Resource ProjectFree transcriptions of monumental inscriptions including Malta
Immigrants from Malta arrive in Sydney having disembarked from the S.S. Partizanka, 1948 [picture]
Origins: History of immigration from Malta - Immigration Museum
Maltese Community Council of Victoria

Preservation of the Maltese culture and language in Victoria

Greg de Moore at Eltham Library

Yarra Plenty Regional Library are very pleased to host Greg de Moore author of "Tom Wills: his spectacular rise and tragic fall" as part of the Bedside Reads Booklovers Festival.

"Greg De Moore has carefully pierced together Tom's life, giving us an extraordinary portrait of the life and times of one of our first sporting heroes, a man who lived by his own rules and whose contribution to Australian history has endured for more than 150 years"

Tom Wills is credited as creating the game we now know as Australian Rules Football. He was also an excellent cricketer in his own right representing Melbourne clubs and Victoria regularly.

"Tom became a member of the Collingwood Cricket Club and some months later played against Heidelberg on "the prettiest ground in the colony". On an "oppresively hot" day Tom took 7 wickets, playing a key role to defeat Heidelberg..."

Greg De Moore will be at Eltham Library
Tuesday 28 July
7.00pm - 8.00pm
Bookings 9439 9266

Sharing experiences of Black Saturday

During the next couple of weeks local libraries will be collecting stories of Black Saturday to be preserved on Wikinorthia

Jim recently shared his story of loosing his beloved horse Henry.

For more information about recording your story on Wikinorthia visit the website or your local library.

Photo Preservation Workshop

Learn how to preserve your precious photographs for generations to come. Do those old photos in your collection need special attention? Come along to the Photo Preservation Workshop and join Detlev Lueth, a conservation industry and leading photo and paper conservator, for an informative afternoon and learn how to preserve those precious memories. People are encouraged to bring their family photographs for a conservation assessment.

Date and time: Saturday 11th July 2009, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
Cost: Free. All welcome. Places limited, Bookings Essential.
Location: Mill Park Library, 394 Plenty Road, MILL PARK
Melway: Map 10 C2
Contact: Cultural Heritage Officer 9217 2377
Email: events@whittlesea.vic.gov.au

Did you Know?
That the three major contributors to fading of photographic prints are ozone in the air, fluorescent light and water all of which are abundantly available in the atmosphere.