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Do you recognise any of these old family photos?

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Books for Sale

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Koenig 1848 – 1990:  Christian & Karl Koenig and their descendants in Australia. Copies are available for $2.00 plus postage. Related surnames:  Lemm, Schmidt, Gladigau, Krosche...

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Retirement of Kevin Zwar

by Robert Wuchatsch

Kevin Zwar, who has handled our research enquiries for many years, recently announced his retirement from that role for health reasons. Kevin was Foundation President of the Wendish Heritage Society Australia from 1986-1994, when ...

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Congratulations to Robert Wuchatsch

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Congratulations to Robert Wuchatsch on being awarded equal first place in the Alexander Henderson Award for 2018 for his family history book Särka to Westgarthtown:  the Wuchatsch family in Germany and Australia.  The Book Launch was feat...

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Golden Wedding Anniversary

by Glenys Wollermann

Congratulations to Kevin and Del Zwar, who are celebrating 50 happy years of marriage on 30 September. Delrose Zwar (nee Heinrich) grew up in World’s End, near Burra in South Australia. Kevin often says, “I had to go to the end of the world to fi...

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New Venue for our Society

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We have moved from the Ivanhoe Lutheran Church (which has been sold) to St Aidan's, a former Anglican Church, which has a storage area for our Library, as well as a hall, meeting room and kitchen. We moved to this new venue in April. 2014. St Aidan's...

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Jakob Gruhl visits Wendish Library

by John Noack

On Saturday, 25 January 2014, the Society was pleased to receive a visit from Jakob Gruhl, a young man from Bautzen, currently holidaying in Australia. Australia, with its open spaces, continues to attract many backpackers from Germany, including ...

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Sale of Livingstone Street church property

by John Noack

The Lutheran Church property at 27 Livingstone Street, Ivanhoe, Victoria, was sold by auction on Friday, 11th October 2013. It goes without saying that this was a sad event for the small congregation of the church. It is also a signifiant event for o...

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Nieder-Weisel Plaque for Victorian Goldfields

by Kevin Zwar

The largest number of people to emigrate to Australia from any town in what is now Germany came to Victoria from Nieder Weisel in the 1800's, a Lutheran village in the Country called Hesse. The village had 2,300 inhabitants in the 1800's, until over ...

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Sign unveiled at Rosedale, South Australia

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Click to download a copy of the story. Rosedale Sign Unveiling...

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