Warren Sims

The Camden Area Family History Society Research Room will be closing at 2.00pm Saturday December 16th and will reopen at 11.00am Thursday January 18th 2024.

The Committee and Members would like to extend Seasons Greetings to all and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year.

The CAFHS Workshops will be on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 2 to 4 pm. This is a chance to share information and work together to help each other to solve our research problems and break through those stubborn brick walls, and also to share your research hints and tips. Meet in The Galleria outside the Research Room in Camden Library at 2.00pm.

** PLEASE NOTE the CAFHS Research Room will be closed this week from 7th to 9th September **

Our volunteers will be attending the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies Conference.

You can still visit our History Week Display “Camden Voices from the Past” outside our room in Camden Library.

We reopen on September 14th at 11am.

Re-opening of our Research Room – August 1st 2023.
Our Research Room has now been repainted and reorganised and looks fresh and bright! We will be reopening at the beginning of August. Please contact us by eMail at cafhs2570@gmail.com for further details and opening hours, or follow the updates on our Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/cafhs2570

Important Notice: Our Research Room is currently undergoing renovations. There is a limited availability to the room and resources from the last week in June until the end of July 2023. Please contact us to arrange an appointment before your visit.

Please be aware the Camden Research Room will close for the Christmas and New Year Festive period as of 12 noon, Saturday 10th December 2022 and will reopen to visitors at 10.30am on Thursday 19th January 2023 hopefully to a much brighter and fulfilling year.

Can you identify any of the people or places shown in these photos from our Unknown Collection that would help us to keep our databases up to date. Please go to the Camden Area Family History Unknown Photo Collection page and scroll through the 85 photographs displayed there.

Early Menangle is a collection of newspaper articles written by J.J. Moloney under
the pseudonym J.J.M. and published by the Voice of the North newspaper monthly
between August 10, 1927 and July 10, 1929. At some point after the publication of
the last article, they were collated and printed as a book, a copy of which is held by
Picton Family & Historical Society and published online at: https://www.pictonheritage.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/early-menangle.pdf

Because of the large number of names, the text was taken from Trove, compiled and
indexed. The names were then checked against the Camden Area Family History
Society (CAFHS) database and where a distinction was required, dates of birth
added. Any errors made during this process are those of the editor.

Do You know where your Street Name came from?

Please click here to access the Street Names and who or what they were named after.

Areas around Camden Municipal Council area include:

Camden South, Camden, Elderslie, Narellan, Harrington Park, Smeaton Grange, Narellen Vale, Mount Annan, Springs Farm, Curran’s Hill, Gregory Hills, Kirkham, Oran Park, Catherine Field, Leppington, Rossmore, Ellis Lane and Grassmere. (Not all street name derivations are known, so if you can help, please feel free to let us know).