Posts tagged ‘news’

Lotus Place launch new website

Posted on 1 May 2013 by
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Lotus Place, home to the Find & Connect support service in Queensland, have launched a new website.

Find & Connect web resource December newsletter

Posted on 18 December 2012 by
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The December 2012 issue of the Find & Connect web resource newsletter contains snapshots from the state-based historians about the latest news and updates on all the state and territory websites. There’s an article about the Prime Minister’s announcement of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. …

Introducing the Find & Connect reb resource newsletter

Posted on 5 June 2012 by
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This week we circulated the first newsletter for the Find & Connect web resource. Featuring ‘snapshots’ from our state-based historians with updates from the various state and territory websites, as well as a look at the web traffic statistics to date and a feedback report …

Connections UnitingCare: 80 years of historic images now online

Posted on 15 June 2011 by
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The community services organisation Connections UnitingCare, with the assistance of a Victoria 175 History Grant, has made 80 years of historic images available on the web through the photo-sharing website, flickr.

Connections UnitingCare’s predecessor organisations include the Methodist Babies’ Home and the Presbyterian Babies’ Home. Many of these images come from slides used by the ‘slum abolition’ …

National Find and Connect Service

Posted on 14 June 2011 by
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Jenny Macklin, the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, has released details of the first phase of the national investment in the Find and Connect Service. The Find and Connect Service will help Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants access support and counselling, locate and access personal, family and historical records, and to reconnect with family …