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October 2023
Wonthaggi – Seniors Festival – Local Newspapers 1910-2023 Personal Notices
Join the Wonthaggi and District Historical Society for the Seniors Festival. Talk: Local Newspapers 1910 -2023 Personal Notices - Births, Deaths and Marriages. Are your family details in our Newspaper…
Find out more »Talk – Naval Graves with Lance McDermott
The Narre Warren and District Family History Group - guest speaker - Naval Graves – Lance McDermott. The Naval Graves Project is a volunteer group that researches, locates, photographs, and…
Find out more »Wonthaggi – Seniors Festival – The Tales of Wreck Beach
Join the Wonthaggi and District Historical Society for the Seniors Festival. Talk: The Tales of Wreck Beach. Speakers will tell the early history of Wreck Beach / Harmers Haven. 1842…
Find out more »Getting to know your Family History: Irish Records
Getting to know your Family History: a series of talks on the third Thursday of the month, 2023. Presented by Jane Rivett-Carnac, President of the Narre Warren & District Family…
Find out more »Hands on the Past: Dandenong History
See Greater Dandenong's rich history first hand by viewing and handling special objects from the City’s Civic and Cultural Heritage Collection, at the event Hands on with the Past. You will…
Find out more »November 2023
Emigration, dress and Australian colonial society, 1820s – 1860s.
Australia was generally reckoned as a country where, for much of the nineteenth century, there was little need for fashionable dress. As late as 1853, with the onset of the…
Find out more »Getting to know your Family History: Local History Societies, RHSV etc
Getting to know your Family History: a series of talks on the third Thursday of the month, 2023. Presented by Jane Rivett-Carnac, President of the Narre Warren & District Family…
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