Lithgow & District Family History Society Inc.
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Resource centre & meeting rooms

Our resource centre/library and meeting rooms are in the Ewen Smith Memorial Hall situated on the corner of Tank & Donald/Guy Sts in Lithgow. 

 

Street view on Google maps:  http://g.co/maps/gwy8

 

Opening hours

Tuesday 6—9pm

Friday 10am—4pm

1st Saturday of the month (except on long weekends) 10 am—4pm

 

The L&DFHS Resource Centre will not be open on the first Saturday in April (7th) but will be open on 14th April from 10am to 4pm for research. There will be a display for the National Trust Heritage Festival at the Resource Centre on that day. The festival theme is "Amazing Stories - Innovation and Invention" and L&DFHS will be highlighting some of those stories which involve local people and projects. The display will then be exhibited at Lithgow Learning Centre in Main St Lithgow from Thursday 19th April until 29th April 2012.

 

Phone number (during library hours)

+61 (02) 6353 1089

 

Postal Inquiries

Please send all postal inquiries to:

The Secretary

LDFHS Inc

PO Box 516

Lithgow 2790

(Please include a large SAE)

 

Email: ldfhs@nospam.lisp.com.au

(remove ‘nospam’ to email us)

 

Research Inquiry

To download a research inquiry form click here.

Graveside Flower Service

We provide a graveside flower service. Click here for further details.

 

Membership 

To download a membership form click here. 

 

Credit Card Authority

To download a credit card authority form click here

 

Guidelines for use of our centre:

Limits are enforced on personal articles and items that may be taken into the Lithgow & District Family Society Inc Resource Centre.

Lockers are provided for the secure storage of personal articles, including handbags and other bags, larger folders, scanners.

The following items may be taken into the Resource Centre: 

  • Lead pencils 
  • Pad of paper, loose paper, A4 and other bound notebooks
  • Spectacles and spectacle case
  • Laptop computer without the bag. Must operate on battery power. No mains power connection provided due to OH&S requirements.
  • Digital camera. Use is allowed subject to Copyright or Deed of Gift not being breached.

Digital scanning of records is not allowed.


War Heroes Project

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George Joseph Mara

The LDFHS has a project underway to record the histories of men and women who enlisted and served in WWI initially and will eventually include those who served in WWII. For further information click here.

Lithgow, the Australia & NSW 2011 Tidy Towns Award winner

 

    Copyright held by LDFHS Inc.                                                Hosted by LISP in Lithgow NSW Australia                                    Last updated 1 Feb 2012