Prizes & Special Offers
Some of the special offers at the Expo - in registration kit or at vendors tables
- Family Photo Book - $5 discount voucher on any album purchase
- Findmypast.com.au - discount subscription offer; also running a lucky draw to win a findmypast World Collection subscription at the findmypast exhibitor area
- FotoMasters
- Free quotes on photo restorations
- Free scanning to non-archival DVD disk of photos up to A3 size
with a cost of $1.00 to cover the DVD and Cover.
- Free E book on Scanning and Storage of Digital Media - participants will
need to supply a current email address so the book can be delivered - Gould Genealogy
- 10% off all 18 Unlock the Past guide books
- $5 off History and Genealogy 2011: Australia and New Zealand
- $10 off Google Your Family Tree - Ipswich Genealogical Society
- Ipswich and District Pioneer Register - Pre 1914 Volumes 1 and 2 - on special for $30, normally $40 - Queensland Family History Society
- Emigrants from Hamburg to Australasia (CD), on special for $80, normally $145
- Commonwealth Electoral Rolls (Queensland) bundle - 1903, 1913, 1922, 1934, 1941, 1949, 1959
on special for $95 for the set, normally $346.50
- Queensland Schools bundle - includes Queensland School Pupils Index Parts 1-5 and Queensland Schools
Past and Present, on special for for $90, normally $297.00
- Queensland Founding Families 2 volumes (soft cover) - special $30, normally $110
- Any Queensland FHS published CD - 30% off regular price
- Queensland FHS Membership - sign up during the Expo and save $17 (joining fee) - Toowoomba & Darling Downs Family History Society
- All publications reduced for the Expo!
If you plan to run a special offer email alan@unlockthepast.com.au to have it listed here
Some of the great prizes to be given away (in 2 separate draws) - subject to change
- 4 - Archive Digital Books Australia CDs
- Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-88 - value $59.50
- Australian Handbook 1900 - value $27.50
- Pugh's Almanac and Queensland Directory 19th Century Set 1859-1900 - value $460
- Fox's History of Queensland - value $79.50 - Baptist Heritage Queensland
- Queensland Baptist 1903-1913 (CD) - value $47.50
- Queensland Baptist Association Year Books 1921-1930 (CD) - value $34.50
- So! Your ancestor was a Baptist in Queensland AND Fortitude: Dr Lang's Vision for Queensland - value $13 - Boolarong Press
- How to set up your book in Microsoft Word - value $19.95
- 1 subscription to History Queensland magazine - value $19.90 - Clean Cruising
- A $100 Cruise Travel voucher
- A luncheon onboard Dawn Princess in Brisbane - value $50 - 2 - Family Photo Book vouchers - value $20 each
- Findmypast subscriptions
- 1 findmypast.com.au 12 month subscription - value $59.95
- 1 findmypast.co.uk 12 month subscription - approx value AU$170.00
- 1 findmypast.ie 12 month subscription - approx value AU$75.00
- also running a lucky draw to win a new World Subscription (at the findmypast exhibitor area) - Flip-Pal mobile book scanner - Creative Suite - value $249.50
- FotoMasters - gift voucher for a FotoRama 9 - value $285
- Friends of Toowong Cemetery
- 2 Toowong Cemetery 140th Anniversary DVDs - value $25 each - Genealogical Society of Queensland
- 1 year's membership of GSQ - value $71.50
- Free attendance at Annual Seminar 25 August Across the seas they came 19th & early 20th century migrants -
value $60 non-members, $50 members
- Free CD of choice from GSQ's Funeral Directors series - value $55
- Queensland Muster Part 1 - CD of selected pioneers living in Queensland between 1859 and 1901
and a copy of the book Queensland Pioneers 1859-1901 - total value $63.95
- 6 free passes to GSQ's Saturday morning education sessions - range in topics and presenters - total value $78 for
non-members - Genealogical Society of Queensland Convict Connections CD
- Index to NSW Colonial Secretary's Office Copies of Letters Sent to Sheriffs 5 Jul 1828 - 31 Dec 1850 - value $50.00 - Gould Genealogy & History
- 2 Gould Genealogy & History vouchers - value $50 each
- 2 Google Your Family Tree books - value $39.95 each - Ipswich Genealogical Society
- Ipswich and District Pioneer Register - Pre 1914 Volumes 1 and 2 - value $40 - Inside History
- Two 12 month subscriptions - value $63 each - 1 - National Institute for Genealogical Studies 9 course package - value approx $850. The package includes 4 Methodology courses (Getting Started, Getting Organized, The Internet, FamilySearch), and an Analysis & Skills Mentoring course and 4 record courses in a country stream of the winner's choice (choose from American, Australian, Canadian, English, Irish, Scottish and German).
- Openbook Howden
- 2 bottles of wine - value $20 each - Queensland Family History Society
- 1 year's membership of Queensland FHS ($73 which includes the joining fee)
- 2 vouchers which allow the winner to select a QFHS CD to the value of $49.50
- 1 voucher which allows the winner to select a CD from the Queensland School Pupils Series (value $49.50)
- 1 voucher which allows the winner to select a CD from the Commonwealth Electoral Roll (Queensland) Series
(value $49.50)
- 1 Queensland Founding Families book set ($110.00) - Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association
- 2 double passes of a day OR moonlight tour of St Helena Island - value $50 (day tour), $60 (moonlight tour)
per adult (donated by Brisbane Bay Tours and Queensland Prison & Penal Historical Association)
- 2 signed copies of award winning St Helena Island, Moreton Bay: An historical account - value $49.95 each - State Library of Queensland
- Book voucher from the SLQ bookshop - value $50 - 2 - Unlock the Past History & Genealogy: Australia & New Zealand 2011 - value $24.95 each
... more to come
If you would like to donate a prize (or two - one for each of the two draws) please email alan@unlockthepast.com.au
Two draws for prizes are planned
- one around midday Tuesday. All who pre-book (by 20 June 2012) will be in this draw
- one around midday Wednesday. All who submit a completed Treasure Hunt form will be in this draw (you will receive a Treasure Hunt form when you arrive)
