Feb-April 2017 - HeritageTalks @ Central Library, Auckland

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HeritageTalks 2017

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(formerly known as the Family History Lunchtime Series)

When: Fortnightly on Wednesdays from February to November, 12pm - 1pm unless otherwise stated
Where: Whare Wānanga, Level 2, Central City Library, Lorne St, Auckland
Cost: Free
Booking: All welcome.

To ensure your place, please contact the Central Auckland Research Centre on 09 8902412, or complete our online booking form at www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/HeritageTalks

Interested in family and local history? The history of this country, as well as the rest of the world?
Then why not come along to one of our fortnightly HeritageTalks and hear more about both our personal and our shared heritage.

Coming up in HeritageTalks:     
 
February

Exodus to the Southern Seas with Michelle Patient
Wednesday 8 February, 12pm -1pm

Aotearoa is not only the land of the long white cloud, but a land peopled by immigrants. Join us at our first Lunchtime Lecture for 2017 to hear researcher Michelle Patient discuss various waves of migration to New Zealand, particularly from Britain, and touch on the who, what, when, where and why they came.

Recording Family History for People of Chinese Origin with Annie Chui
Wednesday 22 February, 12pm-1pm

‘如何收集和记录你的中国血统的家族史’讲座

March
Let’s look at the new ScotlandsPeople with Jan Gow
Wednesday 8 March, 12pm -1.30pm

What is new and what is different and what is, thankfully, still the same . . . We have a chance to find our family from 1500s through almost to date! Pretty much from womb to tomb!! Find a marriage in the Parish Registers or Civil Registration; then look for the babies; then for their marriages; and then for deaths - and wills!!
(www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk)
 
Selwyn Stories with Christopher Paxton
Wednesday 22 March, 12pm -1.00pm

Late last year The Church on the Corner: a history of Selwyn Church Mangere East, 1863-2012 was published. Author Christopher Paxton tells the general history of Selwyn Church, but also looks at some of the back-stories behind Selwyn, some of the social issues that affected the church during its 150-year history and some interesting sidelights that popped up during his research.

April

The Devonport Steam Ferry Company and Auckland with David Verran
Wednesday 5 April, 12pm -1.00pm

The regular service offered to Devonport area residents by the Devonport Steam Ferry Company from 1881 was a vital factor in the growth of the North Shore.   Nevertheless for those who wished to remain on the City side the ferry service also offered opportunities, including visiting friends and relations in the Devonport and North Shore area, work at the Chelsea sugar works or the Naval docks and recreational day trips including those to the Takapuna Races, the ‘strawberry and cream’ outlets and into the twentieth century to the ‘Pirate Shippe’ at Milford.

La Basse-Ville 1917: New Zealand Voices from Flanders Fields with Dominique Cooreman
Wednesday 12 April, 12pm -1.00pm (extra event)

An almost forgotten battle in Belgium in 1917, Belgian retired judge Dominique Cooreman unearthed during 12 years to bring understanding and closure to the families of the more than 1000 killed between mid June- end August from the New Zealand Division in a small hamlet called La Basse-Ville. Her unique book sheds light on how the war affected all people.

Where: Whare Wānanga, Level 2, Central City Library, Lorne St, Auckland
Cost: Free
Booking: All welcome.

To ensure your place, please contact the Central Auckland Research Centre on 09 8902412, or complete our online booking form at www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/HeritageTalks