The vast resources of the Millicent-based South East Family History Group have been harnessed by the Kalangadoo branch of Women in Agriculture and Business.

The group was formerly known as the Kalangadoo Women’s Agricultural Bureau and it was founded almost 100 years ago in August 1923.

Kalangadoo WAB president Sandra Young is looking to identify the founders and the historians are assisting her.

SEFHG research coordinator Colleen Hammat said it was commonplace in those times for women to be referred to by their husbands’ names.

Many of the Kalangadoo WAB founders are only known by these names but Ms Hammat has tracked them down.

She told the May monthly SEFHG meeting that obituaries in newspapers had turned up some of the missing names.

“There was also a newspaper report with lots of names of a large farewell for a man called Lancaster who had been the Kalangadoo station master for 25 years,” Ms Hammat said.

“SEFHG member Nick Hunt also has photographs of founders of the Kalangadoo WAB.

“He has the files of his late father Tom Hunt who was a professional photographer.”