[1] 'Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)'

[2] 'Tracing Living Relatives' - Jan Bonnett

Jan is a Kapiti-based Genealogist who has worked for the Public Trust, finding relatives of people who die without leaving a will.  Jan provided many anecdotes of her research efforts tracing relatives and offered tips on how to find folk.

'Papers Past' - Emerson Vandy, National Library

A very useful presentation from Emerson, with lots of tips on accessing Papers Past resources.

'Upper Hutt Street names and their Origins' - Lynly Yates

Check Lynly's website for a wonderful array of information about the street names and Upper Hutt suburbs.

[1] Annual General Meeting
[2] After the AGM, Sandra Greig gave a talk about her book Melling aka Stillingfleet.

Reports from our 2017 AGM meeting are available on the Annual General Meeting - reports webpage.

'Bellevue Gardens' - Clark Stiles, Hutt City Libraries

Clark told us about Bellevue Gardens, Lower Hutt from their inception in the 1840's to their demise in the 1920's. (This was a repeat of Clark's talk on 16 Feb.)

Showed up the origin of some of the Lower Hutt streets, too.

'Wahine 50 Charitable Trust' - Rob & Muriel Ewan

See Wahine 50 website.

Shockingly bad weather forced cancellation of this evening meeting and talk.

'Charting Family Trees' - Gerald Twiss

Gerald showed us a variety of ways of showing family trees in charts.

'Wahine 50 Charitable Trust' - Rob & Muriel Ewan

See Wahine 50 website.

Rob and Muriel told us of their family's nerve-wracking Wahine experiences in 1968.

[Re-scheduled from 13 July 2017.]

'Online British newspapers' - Trish Meehan, Family History Specialist, Petone Library