Thursday 20 February 2025
Speaker: Rose Cutts
Topic: Researching Women of Colonial Australia
Our first speaker in 2025 is Rose Cutts who comes to us following a generous donation of three volumes of Women of Colonial Australia series. The stories were produced by twenty women who participated in an educational program offered by the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG) in 2022/2023. Acting as a consultant, Rose taught, guided and mentored the group and subsequently edited and arranged publication of the volumes in association with SAG. The books were donated by Wendy Pryor, a participant in the group.
Rose, who will tell us about how this project came about, its challenges and highlights, has worked across the print media, music and tertiary education sectors in a career spanning over 25 years. Her roles have included sub-editing, copywriting, and several years editing a quarterly fiction publication. For the last 17 years Rose has worked in a variety of roles in universities.
Through her studies, along with several creative writing programs, Rose developed a keen interest and focus on blending historical facts and creative story telling. She is also a passionate researcher of her own genealogy. In 2022, Rose conceived and delivered a writing program through the Society of Australian Genealogists, to share these skills and interests with others, and with a focus on the Women of Colonial Australia.
The Society of Australian Genealogists is an education charity that has been supporting family historians since 1932.
