Family History Society of Newfoundland and Labrador
50 Pippy Place - Unit 16B, PO Box 8008 A1B 3M7 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, NL, Canada

The next Family History Society lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 7:30 pm, at Hampton Hall, Marine Institute, Ridge Road. Guest speaker, lawyer Lynn Butler, will present Using Wills to Build Your Family History. Discover how to mine court records for information, resources for finding wills, and tips for understanding the information in wills. Free admission and free parking. Open to the general public.

The next Family History Society lecture will take place on Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at 7:30 pm, at Hampton Hall, Marine Institute, Ridge Road. The speaker, Craig Morrissey, will present The Journey So Far...The Quest for My Morrisseys, Carters and Skinners. Craig has been researching his family roots for over 20 years. This presentation will provide snippets of the adventures, pitfalls and coincidences that he has encountered along the way all with a humorous and quizzical look at life. No admission charge. Parking is free, and all are welcome.

The next Family History Society lecture will take place on Tuesday October 22, 2019 at 7:30 pm, at Hampton Hall, Marine Institute, Ridge Road. The speaker is Nicole Penney, Archival Assistant and the topic is "Researching Family History at Memorial University of Newfoundland's Folklore and Language Archive (MUNFLA).

Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday, September 17 at 7:30pm at Hampton Hall, Marine Institute, Ridge Road. (Please note that the lecture takes place on the third Tuesday of the month for this month only!) Suzanne Sexty will present: A Walk Through the General Protestant Cemetery... This fine example of a Victorian cemetery is the final resting place of merchant families and those who worked for them, photographers, poets, Chinese laundrymen, labourers, and prime ministers. What is the story of the cemetery, who are these people?