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Let’s get historical! Tom Parry
St John’s Anglican Church Maffra will hold a Prayer service for people in crisis across the world tomorrow evening (Wednesday, March 16, 2022) at 7.30am. Sounds of Gippsland will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2022, in the Maffra Memorial Hall, Foster Street, Maffra beginning at 2pm. Music will be provided by the Maffra Municipal Band, East Gippsland Brass and East Gippsland Symphonia. Entry by gold coin donation, proof of vaccination status is required for entry. A free community meal will be held on Monday, March 21, 2022, at St John’s Anglican Church, Thomson Street, Maffra beginning at 6pm. All welcome. Maffra Bowling Club. Come and try lawn bowls. Tuesday, March 20, 2022 from 10am at the corner of Princess and Kent Streets, Maffra. Bowls supplied, flat sole shoes, thongs or bare feet. For more information, contact Jenny 0421 636 447.
Photos: Tom Parry
It’s a statement president Ms Pocknell heartily agrees with. The Family History Group presently opens to the public on Fridays, with its members ready and willing to help individuals with their research – people are even allowed to use their research facilities for a small fee. The organisation currently has 15 members, but is always looking for more volunteers to join its crew of researchers. Those wanting to become involved, or learn more about the organisation can telephone Ms Pocknell on 0428 411 603, or visit the organisation’s official Facebook page: www. facebook.com/Sale-and-District-Family-HistoryGroup-1432773337007538
The Family History Group has an impressive library of local books.
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Heather Pocknall and Geraldine Huckell from the Sale and District Family History Group
EACH and every Friday, a group of dedicated history buffs can be found toiling away in the old Temperance Hall. They are the members of the Sale and District Family History Group, a volunteer-led organisation dedicated to preserving and researching the region’s past. The Hall is the organisation’s home, storing their local history library, rate books, school records, electoral rolls and cemetery records in physical and digital formats. Family History Group president Heather Pocknall first joined the group in 1987. She has long held an interest in family history, and today applies that knowledge to assist members of the public in researching the history of their own families. But the organisation also serves to document the region’s past. “We seek to write the histories of the early settlers of Sale and district, and follow through their descendants to the current as far as we can, which is about 1920,” Ms Pocknell said. Working alongside Ms Pocknell is fellow member Geraldine Huckell, who first became involved with the organisation in 2017. Originally from Langwarrin, Ms Huckell became involved with the organisation to learn more about her father, who passed away in 2004. “We didn’t know much about him, just that his mother died when he was four,” Ms Huckell said. “And geez, do I know a lot now! “I tell people I know, that he was ‘pass-theparcel’, because his mother’s parents looked after him for a while, but they were running a dairy so they passed him on to one of the brothers, and then another brother, and then another brother.” Although she initially joined to study her own family history, Ms Huckell has since become a mainstay of the Group and now holds the role of treasurer. When asked why she continued be involved, Ms Huckell’s answer is surprisingly candid: “Because I’m a professional sticky-beak.”
