Directors Dr Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni and Wayne Phillipson established Ballarat Heritage Services, in February 1998, a boutique publishing house using the imprint BHS Publishing.
Our team of experts now include professional historians, archivists, curators, family historians and educationalists. BHS offers an extensive range of heritage and education related services including consultancy, publishing, mentoring, training and assistance, and oral histories.
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Goldfields Genealogy
Goldfields Genealogy Dorothy Wickham Sometimes gold miners on the Victorian goldfields during the early 1850s are difficult to trace. Early mining was alluvial. As soon as one gold…
Miner’s Right
Miner's Rights Dorothy Wickham The mists of time have tempered the harsh reality of life on the goldfields, and how the illusion of finding great nuggets of gold lured…
Ballarat: A Genealogist’s Goldmine
Ballarat: A Genealogist's Goldmine Dorothy Wickham Ballarat is an important town for many family historians If you have ancestry in Australia before World War Two then there is a…
Federation
ANCES-TREE (Naming patterns relating to Australia's Federation in 1901) Clare Gervasoni Q. My great grandmother's name was Nora Federal Gina Paterson. Nora and Gina are family names, but…
Eureka: A Multicultural Affair
Eureka: A Multicultural Affair Dorothy Wickham & Clare Gervasoni The Victorian goldfields boasted a community comprised of a large number of different nationalities. People held multifarious political and…




















