COVID-19 UPDATE

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NFHS now has a QR Code

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Please enter by the front door ONLY

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(The side gate will be unlocked if you park in De Vitre Street)

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Upon entry please scan in and then sign our sign-in book as usual

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(If you don't have a Smart phone we will sign you in)

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MASKS REQUIRED IN ALL ROOMS

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ALL NFHS ACTIVITIES SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

A message from the eTeam

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Our September Journal still hasn’t been printed!  As we do the printing and posting ourselves, not being able to get into the rooms because of lockdown has really hampered us. It’s frustrating because we really want to share a great variety of articles about Scotland – family stories, chance finds and mysteries solved, quaint Scottish items, significant Scots in our region, plus what’s new in the Library, events and excursions, great research sites, some of which have only just become available. So, we’re hoping that restrictions will ease soon and that we’ll be able to get on with it.

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Organising Genealogy

It’s Time to Write That Story!

With Volumes I and II of our Society’s next publication soon to be launched, it is time to think about stories for Volume III, the last in the series.

The first two volumes of People of Newcastle and the Hunter Valley: Their Stories – Our Heritage contain some wonderful contributions from our members and their friends. If you have been thinking of submitting a story of an ancestor or simply someone who interests you, remember stories can be anything in length up to 1500 words. The only proviso is that the main subject of the story must have been buried or cremated somewhere in Newcastle or the Hunter Valley. Photographs, sketches, maps etc are always most welcome.

Volume III already has a number of stories one of which tells of a lady who was better known than Nobbys, another of a policeman who may or may not have known what his wife got up to behind his back and yet another story is of a quietly-living man and his truly amazing legacy.

Please put pen to paper or finger to keyboard and post your story to

Maree & Ken Shilling PO Box 296 Jesmond, 2299 or email to kenandmaree@gmail.com

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Please remember this is the last Volume in the series and once the allocated number of 50 stories is received, we will not be able to accept any more entries for this work.

Thank you in anticipation – Maree & Ken Shilling