CAFHOV’s 20 Year Anniversary Celebration

On Saturday 4 December 2021, CAFHOV held an event at the Chinese Museum to celebrate 20 years since the founding of our group. For attendees it was also an occasion to meet face-to-face, the first time since February 2021 due to COVID lockdowns, and to meet two new members. In addition, it was an opportunity to thank the CEDT Indexing Project Team again for their key role in CAFHOV being awarded the Victorian Community Local History Project Award 2021.

Our new CAFHOV President, Anna Wolf, welcomed everyone warmly before one of the original founding members, Robyn Ansell, gave a short talk about some of the founders and past activities of CAFHOV to an audience mainly of members who joined in the last five years. This was then followed by Sophie Couchman presenting Life Membership Certificates to both Robyn and Jim Twycross and thanking them for their years of contributing time as office bearers and helping other CAFHOV members with family history research. Jim also proudly showed off his recently published book, Footprints in History: A Comprehensive History of the life and times of the Ah Shin Family, achieved after many years of research. Robyn and Jim now join Maurice and Eunice Leong in CAFHOV’s Life Members Club.

Robyn holding up her Life Membership CertificatePhoto copyright Anna Wolf
Jim holding his Life Membership Certificate and Mark displaying Jim’s book – Photo copyright Anna Wolf

Launch of the Victorian CEDT Index, 22 June 2021

We are very excited and proud to announce the completion and launch of the Victorian CEDT Index project on Tuesday 22nd June 2021.

Dr Kate Bagnall, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and coordinator of the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania launched our index and spoke about the significance on the index to family historians and Australian history.

Patrick Ferry, Assistant Director Public Engagement (Vic) from the National Archives of Australia also spoke.

Watch this recording of the online launch event (39 mins).
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CAFHOV gratefully acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government and Public Record Office Victoria for making this project possible.