Since 1997 VAFHO has hosted the Don Grant Family History Lecture to promote family history education and provide interesting speakers on a variety of family history topics. The Lecture is named in honour of the late Don Grant 1932-2011 (who was a living legend) – formerly of the State Library of Victoria (SLV), Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) and a committee member of the Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO). Read More – from The Don Grant Family History Lectures 1997-2006, published by VAFHO in 2008. All lectures and presenters since 1997 are shown below.
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| 2017 - Land and Families: European land settlement in Victoria, 1850–1940 - Dr Charles Fahey |
| 2016 - ‘Grannie’ Ferris: midwife, nurse, doctor and undertaker - Susie Zada |
| 2015 - Bringing the war home: Repatriation records and the family historian - Professor Bruce Scates |
| 2014 - FamilySearch - Jenny Harkness |
| 2013 - Research your military ancestors in Australia - Lt Col Neil C Smith AM |
| 2012 - Family Secrets: Vandemonians in Victoria - Professor Janet McCalman AC |
| 2011 - Storming the Barricades - The Family History Revolution - Dr Andrew Lemon |
| 2010 - Victoria in the 19th Century - Everyday life and family history - Professor Geoffrey Blainey |
| 2009 - Family History & Women's History: Critical Intersections - Professor Patricia Grimshaw |
| 2008 - Moving Stories: British Migrant Women & Family Life in Post-War Australia - Professor Alistair Thomson |
| 2007 - Speed-relating: family history in a digital age - Professor Graeme Davison |
| 2006 - Great Expectations and Hard Times - Helen Doxford Harris OAM |
| 2005 - Their Family Histories Liveth for Evermore: Remembering the Great War - Dr Tanja Luckins |
| 2004 - Family History and the changing face of State Archives since 1974 and into the future - Shauna Hicks |
| 2003 - Changes and Challenges at the State Library of Victoria - Anne-Marie Schwirtlich |
| 2002 - Point Henry: The Right Place at the Right Time - Susie Zada |
| 2001 - It Gets Easier Every Day - Michael Gandy |
| 2000 - Amusing Recollections of a Bungling Researcher - Sue McBeth |
| 1999 - Ship Ahoy - Ken Shewan |
| 1998 - Impact on Family Historians of the Redevelopment of The State Library of Victoria - Frances Awcock |
| 1997 - Partnerships and Plans - The Public Record Office Victoria 1977-1996 - The Don Grant Years - Ross Gibbs |