The Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

August is National Family History Month (NFHM), and Libraries Tasmania is once again holding its series of popular expert talks that will inspire and assist you to connect the dots of your family history.

The Libraries Tasmania NFHM expert talk series, at the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

3 August 2021: Tracing your family history through heirlooms and keepsakes with Bob Holderness-Roddam
4 August 2021: Remembering convict women and orphan school children with Dianne Snowden
5 August 2021: Government Archives & Preservation – Berriedale Repository: A guided tour with Nicki Ottavi (bookings essential, via phone 03 6165 5584)
10 August 2021: Hobart 19^th century burial grounds and their records with Maree Ring
11 August 2021: Using DNA to solve family history mysteries with Ros Escott
12 August 2021: A Grave Question – Where did they bury Great-Grandma? with Brian Rieusset
17 August 2021: Prominent and Obscured – Land and Buildings in the National Archive with Bruce Kay
18 August 2021: House Histories: Further information and hints on house genealogy with Barry Campbell
19 August 2021: Missing in action – Aboriginal people across the ‘settled’ districts of Van Diemen’s Land with Julie Gough
24 August 2021: The Life of Curzon Allport: A family and collection divided with Kate Vermey
25 August 2021: Naturalisations, aliens and citizenship records with Dr Kate Bagnall
26 August 2021: Mystery of William George Dart with Lyn Hallam
31 August 2021: Researching Tasmanian Rail Records: A guide for family historians with Alicia Marchant and Bev Morritt

Download your copy of the National Family History Month expert talks program (PDF). Can’t make it to an Allport talk? Keep an eye on our SoundCloud channel for the recordings.

Attend one of these family history events at a local library

Learn how to research your family history at Burnie Library
Family history basics at Devonport Library
Uncover family history DNA at Bridgewater Library
Learn to use family history software to record your family tree at Bridgewater Library
Introduction to family history at Bruny Island Centre, Kingston Library and Glenorchy Library
Coffee, Cake and Computers – intro to family history at Glenorchy Library
History of pubs in Hobart at Glenorchy Library
Family history basics at Rosny Library and Sorell Library
Discover your family history at Rosny Library
Family history research help at Rosny Library
Is there more to your story? Newspapers and your family history research at Rosny Library

Please note: Bookings, via Eventbrite or phone, are essential for all our NFHM events, as numbers are limited.

25 March – 31 July 2021

Ease your travel itch…

With international travel restrictions still in place, the Allport takes you to Tahiti, albeit in 1769, showing you for the first time a selection of stunning Society Islands botanicals from Banks’ Florilegium.

The intricate botanical prints and rare journals on display are an enduring record of human survival, courage, curiosity, obsession and creativity.

Banks’ Florilegium – Society Islands, 1769 comprises framed botanical prints individually colour-printed in the 1980s, from the 18th century copperplate engravings of Sydney Parkinson’s drawings. Parkinson was the artist who drew the fresh plants collected in the Society Islands by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, as part of Captain James Cook’s first voyage round the world.

Spend some time taking in the edible, the intoxicating and the medicinal details of the plants; well-known to the island people, but many of them entirely new to European botany at the time.

A beautiful colour catalogue and poster are available for sale.

Visit the exhibition in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts:

Ground Floor, 91 Murray Street, Hobart, Tasmania
Open weekdays 9:30am – 5:00pm. Saturdays 9:30am – 2:00pm. Closed Sundays and public holidays. Wheelchair accessible. Free entry. Wi-Fi access

Contact the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts

Email: allport@education.tas.gov.au
Phone: (03) 6165 5584
Website: Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts