August is National Family Month celebrated in both Australia and New
Zealand. This is sponsored by Australasian Federation of Family History
Organisations, National Archives of Australia and Ancestry.com. To find out
more about this year's National Family History month in Australia see:
http://www.familyhistorymonth.org.au/.

National Family History Month has been celebrated in Australia since August
2006 when it was celebrated during the first week of August. Due to its ever
increasing popularity, National Family History Month was increased to the
whole month of August >from 2013.

Blogger Shauna Hicks has a list of 31 things to do to celebrate National
Family Month in Australia: http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/resources/

For a list of activities in New Zealand see:
http://www.genealogy.org.nz/Family-History-Month-at-the-FRC_858.aspx

There is a list of useful websites and information on how to start your
research available at: http://www.affho.org/news/useful%20websites.pdf .
Note this list is >from the 2014 National History Month.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee