1288 days ago

FREE Family History Training

Garry from Red Beach

FREE Beginners Family History Course
Want to know what happened to Great Aunt Maude?
Who inherited all her money $$$$$ ?

This course will give you all the tools to do family History research at home in your own time, and quite likely solve this and other mysteries!
And it can help you to connect with lost part relatives.
This course takes 4 sessions to complete and is held at Whangaparaoa Library. The course details are:
Mon 13 June
Wed 15 June
Mon 20 June
Wed 22 June
Time 10.00am – 12.00 pm each day in the library Pohutukawa Room.

Numbers are strictly limited for this popular course. Registration details can be sent to the Course Tutor, Garry Phillips

Email to: genealogy.training.nz@gmail.com or phone (021 902715) for a Course Outline and questions.

The course is run by the Hibiscus Coast Branch of NZ Society of Genealogists.

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Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
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(Peter from Carterton kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Peter!)

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Tracy Watkins has weighed in ... now it’s your turn. What’s your take? 🤔

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Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝
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