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Tuesday 7th June – Monthly Meeting Day.
Sale will start at 1.00 pm and resume after the meeting ends. Come early to grab your choice of bargains and support the Society. All income goes back into resources.
Guest speaker and member Julie Keating will be talking about Novocastrians’ lives in the 1800s so it will make for a very interesting afternoon.

Friday, 3 June, we will meet at the Dungog Museum, at 105 Dowling Street, at 10am. After viewing the Museum we will walk down the street and a guide will come with us to give the history of the buildings.

On Thursday, 26 May we will hold a fundraising morning tea for the Cancer Council’s Daffodil Day.

A lot of the courses that were planned for 2021 were unable to be held due to the lockdowns. So these are now planned to be run in 2022.

15 May 2022. The focus is on DNA. 10.00am – 11.00am An introduction to DNA. 11.30am – 12.30pm Using colours to group your DNA results. 12.30pm – 1.30pm Using DNA results and Mirror Trees to find missing ancestors.

People of Newcastle and the Hunter Valley Volume III Volume III is now being proofed and will be launched soon NO MORE STORIES CAN BE ACCEPTED

Friday, 6 May, we will travel to Rookwood Cemetery and will be met by a guide for a Ships and Shipwrecks Tour of the cemetery.

The Military Special Interest Group is organising a display of materials at the NFHS rooms to celebrate Anzac Day 2022.

A Day at the Bay 1 April 2020 On 1 April 2022, we will be visiting the Tomaree Library and Community Centre at Salamander Bay. We will meet at the Library at 10am and visit the library and the Tomaree Family History Society which meets there on a Friday.  After a look at the library’s

Ken Shilling has donated 28 beautiful photographs from his collection to the Society to sell.