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Images and Irfanview $15.00
11FRC015 Saturday 1st September, 10.00am-1.30pm Computer Workshop
Presenter Keith Vautier
Do you consider yourself challenged when it comes to ‘genealogy and pictures’? This workshop aims to help you effectively use digital photos, documents and other images to illustrate your family history. We will use the extended features of the freeware Irfanview to prepare images for attaching to your family history, emailing and posting images on the Web. We will discuss some options for the best use of visual images of all kinds within your published work and cover basic digitising, enhancing and archiving of your heritage photographs and source documents. Bring your digital camera, cables, laptop (if you have one) and a photograph.
Researching in Sweden Using Ancestry.com $10.00
12FRC016 Saturday 8th September, 10.00am-12.00noon Classroom Workshop
Presenter Diane Hansford
The lecture is on Swedish research using Ancestry.com. It is best to know where in Sweden your ancestors came from (but we may be able to work around it if you don’t yet know). Before you come to the workshop, try to find where they came from:
* Did they marry in New Zealand after 1880? If yes... get a photocopy of the marriage certificate. This should tell you who their parents were and also what village/town they were from.
* If they married overseas, have you used the IGI? This is on the Internet at <www.familysearch.org>, you can put in the names you are looking for and also the country, it will bring up a list of names and also who they married. Pay a visit to the FRC in Panmure or your nearest Family History Centre of the LDS and the volunteers will help you.
* Did they have children born in New Zealand after 1875? If yes...Then get a birth certificate. This should give you the parents’ marriage date and where it took place and where the parents were born.
* If you have looked at all the above but still only know the country. Then get the New Zealand Death Certificate and see what information it gives.
* One other place that may have the information you need is Naturalization Papers. Look on NZSG Kiwi Index CD ROM or go to your Library most libraries have a copy of the government’s index for naturalization. * If further help is needed contact the European Interest Group at <europeannz@yahoo.co.nz >
Bring your lunch and stay on in the Library afterwards. Diane will assist you search on-line for your family.
Were My Ancestors Huguenot? $10.00
12FRC017 Saturday 15th September 10.00am-12noon Classroom Workshop
Presenter Marion Heap
This question is frequently asked by genealogists when they come upon an unusual surname, or oral history suggests that there were Huguenots in the family. The aims of this workshop are to provide a brief historical outline of the history of the Huguenots and an overview of the Huguenot resources held at the Family Research Centre and elsewhere. A hands-on session will enable you to become familiar with the methods and materials used in Huguenot research.
Introduction to South African Research $15.00
12FRC018 Saturday 22nd September, 10.00am-1.30pm Classroom Workshop
Presenter Marie Lycett
This workshop will cover the areas of settlement by Europeans in South Africa, where the records are held and how to access these records. Please bring your lunch, you may also stay on in the library afterwards.
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