Tour of Germany, Austria and Poland, Aug-Sept 2010
by Moira Nagorcka
Moira Nagorcka, the writer of this report, travelled on a three-week personalized tour organized by David Zweck of Zweck Tours. Some of the highlights of the tour were the visits to the villages of our Wendish and German ancestors and the Passion Pla...
Sorbian Grammar School, Bautzen
by Alfons Frencl[as emailed to the Wendish Heritage Society] The Sorbian Grammar School in Bautzen organized a school project about Australia. They visited Herrnhut (Moravian Brethren). At the Museum of Ethnology there they learned about the Aborigines. Alfons...
1860 Hamburg Ships’ 150th Ann. Lunch
by John NoackTime: Saturday 19 June 2010 at 12.00 noon Venue : German Club Tivoli, 291 Dandenong Road, Windsor, Victoria. Speaker: John Noack on "The 1860 Hamburg Ships and their Passengers to Australia". A very warm welcome was extended to all who gathe...
Heike Bishop – “Homeopathy” talk
by John NoackOn April 11th 2011, our guest speaker, Heike Bishop, gave an excellent presentation on the topic "Survival in the Bush: German Homoeopathy (Homeopathy) in Australia". Heike Bishop, a homeopath from Adelaide, has written a thesis on this topic and ga...
Dimboola and Jeparit Tour
by John NoackDimboola in Victoria's Wimmera Region celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009 and new displays and features were prepared for those celebrating. Our Society's tour, which took place from Saturday 6 March at 12 noon to Monday 8 March 2010, include...
Haeusler Reunion
by Morrie HaeuslerOn 7 March 2010, many descendants of Johann Friedrich August and Anna Rosina Haeusler gathered at Monivae College in Hamilton, Victoria, to celebrate the arrival in Australia of their ancestors in 1846. August was the second youngest of seven childre...
John Stanley Martin (1933–2010)
by Professor Michael ClyneJohn Martin, who died on 17 January after a 17-months struggle with cancer, was the doyen of Scandinavian Studies in Australia. Although it is 14 years since he retired officially from the University of Melbourne, he continued to conduct research, pu...
Ben Nevis: Australian Emigrant Packet-Ship
by Ed KochDuring our Society's recent Research Sunday at our Wendish Library in Ivanhoe, some members were sorting out precious clippings, pictures and a range of other materials saved over a number of years. Then something special turned up that brought the c...
Newspaper clippings
by [unknown]The following is an occasional collection of (mostly Melbourne) newspaper clippings:
Steiner Silverware on Sale
Silverware items designed and made by Steiner of South Australia were included in a Selling Exhibition organised by antique dea...Wendish Family History Books for USA
by Geoff SaegenschnitterDuring 2009, I embarked on a project to collect Australian family history publications of Wendish origin that families were prepared to donate to the Texas Wendish Heritage Society in Serbin, Texas USA. We had an overwhelming response and my wife ...