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March 2022 opening hours
We are open Monday to Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm by appointment. Appointments or bookings can be made on Eventbrite. If we have no bookings for a session no one will be in attendance in the Research Room on that day. Details for March openings: We will be open Monday to Saturday from…
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February 2022 Opening Hours
After some long and careful consideration of a wide range of issues we have decided to reopen the Lorraine Taylor Research Room on Tuesday 1st February and see how we go. The health and safety of our Research Room volunteers, members and visitors is of the upmost importance to us, and it’s for this reason…
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March 2 reopening
We are scheduled to reopen the Research Room on Tuesday 2 March. The room will initially be opened to two members or visitors with a committee member working as our duty person. We will be offering two sessions per day with a short interval in between for cleaning. In order to successfully limit numbers in…
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We’re closed again…
We are again closed to members and the public as the admin building will be closed from 8 July 2020. But, as always, you can contact us by email, Facebook or phone ……..Stay safe everyone.
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Research Room open again
We’re excited to advise that the admin building at Cranbourne East was reopened by the City of Casey on 2 July 2020. This means that we are able to access the Research Room once again. The committee have thought long and hard about what services we’re prepared to offer to members in these early days…
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Sorry, we’re closed
At an extraordinary committee meeting last night we reluctantly decided to close the Lorraine Taylor Research Room immediately until the 30th April 2020, possibly longer. We cannot risk the health and safety of our fabulous volunteers and we cannot envisage a way to continue to deliver services in the Research Room and maintain good social…
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Christmas and New Year closure
Although we’ll be closed over the Christmas break we’re happy to open the Research Room for visitors to the area if given enough notice. Please let us know if you’d like to visit us during the break as soon as you can by calling Lynne on 0413 182 551 or emailing research.officer@nwfhg.org.au or just leaving…
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Elletts’ Grandma
A genealogist researching your family will advise you that you have two Grandmothers and give you their names. If you ask anyone else in your family about their Grandmothers than they will tell you a story about their loved ones, referring to them by names such as: Grandma, Nan, Gram, Granny, Oma, Gumbu, Memi, Nne nne,…
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Writing the War Exhibition
Writing the War Exhibition At the Cranbourne Library from October 26 2017 to December 7 2017. Venue for all the activities is the Cranbourne Library. =============== Thursday November 2 at 11.00am. Michael Madden – Australian Victorian Cross recipients Michael Madden is a multi-award winning writer and will talk about his current project – researching and…