2025 Central Coast Regional Seminar

This event is in partnership with the Central Coast Family History Society

Theme: Looking Outside the Square: Exploring Business and Biographical Records in Family and Local History

Event Date & Time: Saturday, 29 March 2025 @ 10.00 am – 3.30 pm

Event Location: Gosford Lions Community Hall, 3/8 Russel Drysdale St, East Gosford NSW 2250

Cost: $25 (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea)

Event Description:

We are co-hosting a regional seminar for genealogists, historians, and researchers that will cover a range of resources essential for uncovering individuals’ connections to historical businesses and institutions. Presenters will discuss how to access records from major archives, including the State Archives Collection, the State Library of NSW, the National Library of Australia, Reserve Bank of Australia and the Noel Butlin Archives Centre. In addition, attendees will be introduced to the Historical Land Records Viewer (HLRV) and the Biographical Database of Australia (BDA).

About the speakers:

Carol Liston AO is an Australian historian who specialises in the history of early New South Wales (1788–1860). Her particular interest is the colonial development of the County of Cumberland (Greater Western Sydney), using land records, family history and surviving buildings to document the past.

Christine Yeats is an archivist, historical researcher and active supporter of local historical societies. Her research interests include the history of the Romani (Gypsies) in nineteenth-century Australia and attempts to introduce a silk industry into the Australian colonies.