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

    2024

    • September - November

      12 Sep - 14 Nov - Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG)

      Foundations: The Research Process

      Virtual Workshop - Using AI Tools in Genealogy Research [NEW]

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    • October

      23 - U3A Ellesmere

      Presentation - The Magic of DNA

      28 - Society of Australian Genealogists

      Panel - Let's Talk About... Becoming a Professional Genealogist

      30 - Family History Academy

      Virtual Workshop - Spreadsheet Mastery: Advanced Tools for Family History [NEW]

      More details below.

    • November

      12 - 11 (UK) - Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies

      Webinar: Family History in the AI Era

      14 - Canterbury Genealogy

      Presentation - Unlocking the Legacy: Researching Family Heirlooms

      22-24 - Escape to the Past

      Family History Retreat

      Christchurch

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    2024 at the Family History Academy

    • Spreadsheet Mastery: Advanced Tools for Family History

      Dive into advanced techniques to organise, analyse, and visualise your genealogical data effectively. Unlock the potential of spreadsheets to streamline your research, manage vast amounts of information, and uncover hidden connections in your ancestry.

      When:

      29 October 2024 @ 6pm Eastern US

      30 October 2024 @ 11am NZDT

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    2025

    • January

      Are you looking for a speaker?
      In person or Zoom available.

    • February

      Or maybe a workshop could be filling my calendar here.

    • March

      11 - NZSG Waimakariri Branch

      Presentation - Plan to Publish
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    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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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    • 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

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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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