MEMBERS of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Family Research and Local History group (TGHNFR) have found a new home at the Tea Gardens Library, following the venue’s recent upgrades.
The TGHNFR display in the northern corner marks the group’s new home, where they will be setting up every Monday from 9:30am (ex holidays).
The Group welcomes those who seek assistance in learning to write and research their family histories, find land titles, and maybe even some hidden family connections.
They will be showing members of the public how to access and use Trove, which now contains 50 years’ worth of NOTA editions, thanks to exhaustive scanning and uploading work done by the group in recent years.
On the second Monday of each month, the group will also host events in the big new room that was added as part of the library upgrades, with the first already held on 19 January featuring Kerrie Jeffreys from the Original Tea Gardens Ferry.
That event attracted over 40 attendees, who heard about the history of ferries on the river, including the originals back in the early 1900s, run by the Thurlows and Korsmans, as well as the modern ferry service that has been running for over 30 years.
“We have had to send many historical books up to Taree for more digitising, cataloguing and sorting, as we aim to preserve all kinds of historical documents,” TGHNFR member Judith Glover told NOTA.
“The big new room will also be utilised for holding historical workshops, tutorials or watching webinars, something of interest and helpful to our research.”
“Our first Monday we had a ‘Show and Tell’ where our members shared stories from something they brought along to talk about.”
The Family Research group always welcomes new members, and has plenty of help for them with their research.
“It is a very interesting hobby which consumes you. We don’t need any more historic items for about 12 months until we get settled and everything is digitised and catalogued.”
By Thomas O’KEEFE
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