Blue Mountains Family History Society Inc

The Blue Mountains Family History Society was formed in 1986 and concentrates on serving the area of the Blue Mountains City Council from the rise from the Cumberland Plain to Mount Victoria and the off shoots of Mount Wilson and Mount Irvine to the north and the Megalong Valley in the south. It is a true family history society with interests back to member's roots - in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, France etc, how and where their ancestral families lived and worked and where they travelled. The Society has a close association with the Local Studies Librarians of Blue Mountains City Council - but their main focus is facilitating the family history research needs of the local residents, not local studies.
The Society has close ties with adjacent regions: Lithgow in the west, Nepean (Penrith) and Hawkesbury in the east.
The Society is a very active family history organisation having regular meetings with guest speakers, workshops, regular help available in both Springwood and Katoomba libraries, outings to resource centres and other places of interest, undertaking monumental inscriptions at local cemeteries and producing a variety of publications to aid family historians.
The Blue Mountains Family History Society Inc has published a number of important resources for family historians seeking information about families in the Blue Mountains. The two Pioneer Registers - Pioneers of the Blue Mountains Volume 1 pre 1920 & Pioneer Registers of the Blue Mountains Volume 2 pre 1930 - were published in 2003 & 2008 respectively. These volumes are to be found in many private and public libraries.
The Society has also published a series of fourteen (14) Blue Mountains Cemetery Registers and Transcripts of Headstones and Memorials for each of the cemeteries and religious portions of cemeteries within the Blue Mountains City Council area of the Blue Mountains.
Wood Coffill is a long established Funeral Director at Katoomba within the Blue Mountains and the Management of Wood Coffill has made available to the Society its records since its inception. These records have been transcribed and published as a two volume reference WOOD COFFILL Records - Volume 1 (1916-1945) and Volume 2 (1946-1967).
All the Societies publications have an ISBN and all are deposited in both the State Library of New South Wales and the National Library Australia.
Convict Interests: The Blue Mountains Family History Society has begun compiling a list of Convict Ancestors, Pioneers and Interests of their Members. Many of the Society members have Convict Ancestors whilst others are researching groups of Convicts or particular Convict Ships. The Society proposes to publish these Convict and other Pioneer Interests and in the interim, have published them on the internet. Convict Interests
Research Centre
Blue Mountains Family History Society Inc Research Centre within Springwood Public Library
The Society operates out of the Springwood Public Library and has its facilities open to the public. A team of volunteers assist researchers with their inquiry. The Society provides Fiche readers & microfilm readers and 4 computers that are set up for use in the area. The Society's CDs are available on the computers, plus the Centre has internet access. Currently BMFHS holds more than 900 books grouped by content.

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