STATE CONFERENCE

NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies Annual State Conference.

All roads will lead to Gymea in September 2012 when the Botany Bay Family History Society Inc hosts the Family History State Conference and Expo 2012.

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Aims & Objectives

The main objectives of the Society are to promote the study of family and local history; to encourage the recording and preservation of this history; and to provide facilities to assist and benefit members’ research

Speakers

2nd June: Greg de Moore, Tom Wills.
Dr de Moore is a psychiatrist at Westmead and Blacktown hospitals and a clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney.

His biography Tom Wills: His Spectacular Rise and Tragic Fall was inspired by uncovering an old psychiatric record.

Dr de Moore recently made headlines by revealing that psychiatric records from the 1960s to the 1990s are being destroyed in NSW

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