The group, established in 1980, will host sessions on Saturday, August 2, Wednesday, August 6, Thursday, August 14, Tuesday, August 19, and Saturday, August 30, with varying times between 10am and 3pm.
Long-time member Judy McCleary shared her 20-year journey with family history research.
“After I retired, I decided to take up family history because it was something I wanted to do,” she said.
“I knew a lot about my father’s side, but I didn’t know anything about my mother’s side, other than the names of her parents. But I have been able to trace her back to the 1600s now.”
The group operates from the Old Telegraph Station in Chanter St, Moama, opening Mondays and Fridays from 11am to 3pm.
“We help people do their family history,” Mrs McCleary said.
“We have good research people in the team, and a lot of them have been doing family history for quite a long time.”
Their preservation efforts include documenting nine local cemeteries.
“We photographed every headstone, and we photographed every record book from the cemeteries and then we put them all on databases,” Mrs McCleary said.
The group has also digitised about 160,000 personal notices from the Riverine Herald.
Resources available include church records, death and marriage certificates, and access to online databases such as Trove, Ancestry, Find My Past and familysearch.org.
The group also publishes a quarterly magazine called Bridges and Branches.
Talk family history with members of the Echuca Moama Family History Group at the Echuca library.
For more information, contact Campaspe Libraries on 03 5481 2400 or the Echuca-Moama Family History Group at echucacemetery@outlook.com
