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

August is Family History Month

Celebrating everything Family History.

Upcoming Events

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

    Or maybe a workshop could be filling my calendar here.

2025

  • August

    2-3 - Christchurch Family History Expo

    Find us in the exhibition area.

    Presentation - The 5 DNA Research Steps [NEW]

    Presentation - Challenges of AI in Family History - with Andrew Redfern [NEW]

    More details here

    8-10 - Auckland Family History Expo

    Find us in the exhibition area.

    Workshop - Ancestor Intelligence: Using AI for Family History [NEW]

    Presentation - Family Historian on Tour: Luggage, Legacy & Local Archives [NEW]

    Presentation - Discharged & Deserted: They Came as Crew

  • September

    4 - U3A Okeover

    Presentation - Unlocking the Legacy: Researching Family Heirlooms

    23 - NZSG Whakatane Branch

    Webinar - Discharged & Deserted: They Came as Crew

  • October

    13 - NZSG Papamoa Branch

    Webinar - A Step Through Time(lines)

    18-19 - NZSG Kapiti Branch

    Workshop - Unlocking Your DNA Results.
    A two day, hands-on workshop designed to help you make sense of your DNA results and turn them into meaningful discoveries.

  • November

    5 - Botany Bay Family History Society

    Webinar: Across the Ditch

  • December

    11 - Legacy Family Tree Webinars

    Webinar - Scattered Leaves: reconnecting family branches with DNA

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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