Retirement after helping thousands uncover family histories at the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated March 13 2018 - 8:22pm, first published 9:30am
LEFT: Michele Matthews at the start of her career in the 1980s. (Picture: SUPPLIED) RIGHT: A book recording wages that sits in BRAC's archive centre at the Bendigo Library. (Picture: DARREN HOWE)
LEFT: Michele Matthews at the start of her career in the 1980s. (Picture: SUPPLIED) RIGHT: A book recording wages that sits in BRAC's archive centre at the Bendigo Library. (Picture: DARREN HOWE)

She was part of efforts that brought local history into academic acceptance and has helped countless amateur sleuths comb their family trees.

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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