Searching through the past can sometimes be daunting. Discover what your library can offer when researching your ancestors. Take this opportunity to find out how your local library can help you on your journey of exploration and self-discovery in this beginner friendly family history workshop.

Explore the curiosities of Trove at the Cobram Library. Whether its fantastic family facts or hilarious historical hearsay you’ll find it on Trove. Staff will share with you some of the gems of this online archive and share some tips with you for researching your family or historical events.

Acclaimed historian, biographer and speaker Ross McMullin presents his most recent publication Life So Full of Promise. This is his second multi-biography about Australia’s lost generation of World War I, and it features another collection of inter-woven stories set in that defining era.

Our members have a range of skills which are rare today. These include but are not limited to blacksmithing, wool spinning, rope making and recipes no longer in vogue. These will all be on display.