Restarting our Family History events programme - please share widely
Whare Wānanga, L2 Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Saturday 6 December 2025
10.30am-5pmPlease bring your own laptop and your Australian and/or Pacific Island research.
10.30am-1pm:Presentation: Research in Australia and the Pacific Islands – resources on the shelves and online (includes tour of family history collection, focusing on GEN and AUS). - Find out what unique resources Auckland Libraries has in its collections
- Also includes an overview of Pacific Island resources
- Opportunity for hands-on learning how to fill in a pedigree chart and family group sheets.
- BYO laptops to practice live-guided searching.
- Interactive discussion about difficulties encountered, and tips and tricks for overcoming them.
- Discuss discoveries.
- Learning from each others – family historians are very collaborative and enjoy working together.
1pm: Tour of Research Centre
1.30pm: Lunch
2pm Research: After lunch, join us for hands-on research afternoon where attendees are welcome to stay and continue their research, assisted by staff if needed. Learning by doing, allowing attendees to reinforce what they learned in the morning.
Research Centre closes at 5pm.
This workshop is one of a series focused on "countries of interest."
Upcoming workshops in 2026:England and Wales - Saturday 7 March, 2026
Scotland - Saturday 2 May, 2026
Ireland - Saturday 1 August, 2026
Booking preferred to assist with ensuring sufficient specialist staff availability
https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2025/family-history-workshop-australian-and-pacific-island-research/auckland
