Workshops & Presentations

I love sharing the joy of family history and teaching you how to get further with and share your research.

Looking for a speaker?

I have a range of interactive workshops and presentations that can fill one hour or multiple hours.

Available in person or virtually around the world.

Download my list of presentations

Upcoming Events

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2025

  • January

    25 - Genealogical Society of Queensland (GSQ)
    Webinar - Family History in the AI Era

  • February

    10 - Papamoa Branch of the NZSG

    • Webinar - Topic TBC

    18 US / 19 NZ - Family History Academy

    Workshop - Discover the Power of Spreadsheets for Family History

  • March

    11 - NZSG Waimakariri Branch

    Presentation - Plan to Publish
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2025 at the Family History Academy

  • Hands creating a spreadsheet on a laptop computer. Screen has a yellow banner with the word Spreadsheet on it.

    Discover the Power of Spreadsheets for Family History

    Discover how to harness the power of spreadsheets to transform your family history research. In this hands-on workshop, I'll guide you through techniques to organise and visualise your research, including creating structured plans, crafting timelines, analysing DNA matches, and designing versatile family trees.

    Basic spreadsheet skills required; examples use Microsoft Excel for Windows.

    Details

    Workshop Cost: $87 (US dollars) for 3 hours (single session with a short break)

    When: 18 February 2025 @ 6 PM Eastern US | 19 February 2025 @ 12pm NZDT

    Book here 

On Demand Webinars

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars

  • Exciting Discoveries: Organising Your Family History

    Are you wanting to get your family history research organised? Join Fiona as she takes you step by step the process of setting up a system that works for both physical and digital records including your DNA records. Explore other material that you may have also hoarded… whoops I mean collected… and get some tips on staying organised.

    Watch here 

  • Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos

    Learn how to capture and organize your digital information better. We’ll talk about folders, downloading, the snipping tool, creating files and tags. But most importantly you need practice consistency across all these actions.

    Watch here 

  • Keeping Track of Surnames

    Make the most of your research time, by knowing exactly what surnames to research and where.

    This Webinar Short introduces a spreadsheet tool to help you keep track of surnames.

    Watch here 

  • Slow Down - Planning Your Research

    It’s so exciting! You’ve just received a new certificate and have new family names. There’s so much new research to do and before you know it it’s 2am and somehow you missed dinner. Finding new family can be exciting, but sometimes it pays to slow down and plan your research.

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  • A Step Through Time(lines)

    Timelines are a great tool for gathering together your research on an ancestor and their family. Learn tips and tricks on creating these and using them in your research and when you publish your family story.

    Watch here 
Purchase an annual Legacy Family Trees Webinar

  • The Bones - New Zealand Civil Registration

    Birth, Marriage and Death information provides the bones of our family history skeleton from which we hang the rest of our research about a person. Learn more about the New Zealand records that give your research structure.

    Watch here 

  • Finding Families in New Zealand

    We don’t have any major collections of census records in New Zealand, so how else can you find families in New Zealand. Looking at the use of electoral rolls and school records to add to your family history.

    Watch here 

  • Encounters - Our Immigrant Ancestors

    Learn about 19th and 20th century sources for finding your ancestors’ arrival in New Zealand.

    Watch here 

  • The 1939 Register for Family Historians

    Following on from the declaration of War, on September 29th 1939, the details of the population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were recorded and identity cards were issued. Findmypast (and others) has published the registers for England and Wales. This talk will look at searching the 1939 Register and what to do with the information you find.

    Watch here 

  • Four Sources for New Zealand Family History

    Beyond Births, Deaths and Marriages, this talk looks at four sources for tracing your New Zealand family. Covering: Cemetery Research, Probates & Wills, Shipping to New Zealand and Newspapers

    Watch here 

  • Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History

    Looking at The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, New Zealand Electoral Roll's, the 1893 Women's Suffrage Petition and World War I military records.

    Watch here 

  • Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History

    Looking at Intentions to Marry, Parish Registers, The New Zealand Police Gazette and The Wilson Collection.

    Watch here 

  • Four Further Sources for New Zealand Family History

    Looking at Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHR's), Naturalisation, Health and Welfare Records and Maps.

    Watch here 

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Rootstech

It was great to be on the Rootstech virtual stage in 2021 and 2022.

I have multiple talks, a workshop and with my Talking Family History co-creator, Michelle Patient and guests a colleciton of "Ask Us" sessions.

These sessions are all freely available.

Watch my sessions here

Ancestry - Family History Fridays