Sylvia Gauslaa, who compiled the stories, launched the book at Club Dalmeny on Wednesday, November 16, in front of a crowd of around 40 people.

Ms Gauslaa said Noorooma was the original spelling of the town's name.

"The story is one of the postmasters from Bodalla started writing it with an 'a' and it stuck."

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The two books started from a Facebook page called Noorooma our town.

"I thought it would be great to put the stories into a book," Ms Gauslaa said.

Some of the stories go back to the 1800s with the earliest settlers while some are from families who came later.

The contributors tell their family's story, where they came from and what they did in the town.

One story is about the fish cannery that opened around the late 1930s to process salmon and tuna and another relates to the Dromedary dam, while Carol Mead drew on her long involvement with Narooma's swimming club and pool to chronicle their history.

Ms Gauslaa originally came from Wollongong.

"A friend of ours moved down here in 1973 and we came to visit her.

"That is how I got tangled up with Narooma."

She went on a blind date with a Narooma lad, Kris Gauslaa, whom she later married.

She moved to Narooma in 1975.

"My husband went to school here and my kids and the grandkids," she said.

Ms Gauslaa worked for the council in Moruya before she had children while her husband has run several businesses in town including bobcat and excavator hire, tree lopping and Narooma Storage.

His father moved to Narooma from Norway in 1929 at the age of nine because his grandfather, a merchant seaman, could see what was happening in Europe.

It was a choice between the US and Australia.

At the book launch, an elderly gentleman asked Ms Gauslaa if there would be a third book.

"I said if you give me your story I will do a third book.

"It takes a lot of time to get the stories together, believe me."

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