Explore your roots in 2024

 

Season's Greetings

On this Day...

 In 1970 Mrs D Baker of Carey Bay won a prize from The Women's Weekly for her household hint. We'd love to find Mrs Baker.

September General Meeting

 All members of the community are invited to join us at our monthly meeting in September. with guest, Ed Tonks. 

Fund Raising

We need to raise funds to run our organisation as membership fees do not cover all our expenses. On Sunday 25th June we will be holding a major fund-raising event at Bunnings, Glendale.

Please call in and support our Group.

The Humble Sausage

The members of our group are getting organised for their fund-raising barbecue at Bunnings, Glendale on Sunday 25th June.

As we will be serving sausage sandwiches we searched Hunter area newspapers on Trove and found a few articles about the humble sausage. 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134918117

Continue reading this article here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133720077

Read the remainder of this article here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135165576

There was a swathe of articles published about butchers being fined for adulterated sausages but we are posting this cartoon instead.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139514512

Read the remainder of this article here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134352264

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page16077955

Volunteers Week

Without our band of dedicated volunteers we would not exist. Thanks to all who keep our group alive.