Connecting Culture: Tracing Ancestors Seminar (Orange)

Connecting Culture:  Tracing Ancestors

Workshop for Mob - Orange

This session is presented by the History Council of New South Wales in partnership with the State Library of New South Wales, supported by grants from the City of Sydney, Destination NSW and Create NSW and in-kind support from Orange City Council.

Join Melissa Jackson and Kerry-Ann Tape, First Nations family history specialists, for Connecting Culture: Tracing Ancestors workshop for mob. 

In this session we will introduce you to the State Library’s diverse family history collections and provide you with ways in which to trace your ancestors. 

Session facilitators

Melissa Jackson is a Bundjalung librarian at the State Library of NSW. She specialises in language enquiries and material, cultural consultation and First Nations family history. 

Kerry-Ann Tape is Ngiyampaa, and is a qualified Koori librarian at the State Library of NSW. She specialises in First Nations family history, Tindale genealogies, collection enquiries, transcription and supervised viewings.

Join us for a family history yarn, presented in-person.

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED, SO PLEASE REGISTER SO WE KNOW CATERING NUMBERS.

Registrations can be made via this site or via email to:

Contact: programs@historycouncilnsw.org.au

Photo credit:  Joy Lai, State Library of NSW.

Supported by the NSW Government through grants from Destination NSW and Create NSW.