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.