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Fiona Brooker

DNA Testing Down Under Series Methodology and Skills Planning, Timelines Organization Places and Ethnicities England, New Zealand Webinar Shorts Webtember

Fiona Brooker is a professional genealogist (Memories In Time) who has been actively researching her family history for over 35 years, inspired by two marriage certificates and a collection of family letters written from New Zealand back to her immigrant ancestor’s family in Devon. Whilst living and researching in the UK, she studied and gained a Higher Certificate in Genealogy from the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies and is a ProGen graduate. Fiona has served as both President and Treasurer of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG). She has organised family history conferences and expos in New Zealand. As well as helping people with their family history research, Fiona’s passion is to preserve today as much as the past and to get the research out of folders and the computer and into the hands of family members so that they can learn about their heritage.

Fiona's Upcoming Live Webinars (1)

DNA Testing
Scattered Leaves: Reconnecting family branches with DNA
Fiona Brooker
Thu, December 11 2025: 1:00 UTC
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Scattered Leaves: Reconnecting family branches with DNA
Thu, December 11 2025: 1:00 UTC
When our families scattered across the globe, they often left close family behind. The family connections were lost over the subsequent generations. Now through family history research and DNA we are reconnecting with the branches of our family tree as shown in these case studies.
DNA Testing
Scattered Leaves: Reconnecting family branches with DNA
Fiona Brooker
When our families scattered across the globe, they often left close family behind. The family connections were lost over the subsequent generations. Now through family history research and DNA we are reconnecting with the branches of our family tree as shown in these case studies.
Thu, December 11 2025: 1:00 UTC
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Fiona's Webinars (13)

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OrganizationWebinar Shorts
Keeping Track of Surnames
Fiona Brooker
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Keeping Track of Surnames
Make the most of your research time, by knowing exactly what surnames to research and where. This Webinar Short introduces a spreadsheet tool to help you keep track of surnames.
OrganizationWebinar Shorts
Keeping Track of Surnames
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Fiona Brooker
744 views
Make the most of your research time, by knowing exactly what surnames to research and where. This Webinar Short introduces a spreadsheet tool to help you keep track of surnames.
Thu, October 10 2024: 12:00 UTC
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1:07:18
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Four Further Sources for New Zealand Family History
Fiona Brooker
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Four Further Sources for New Zealand Family History
Explore your New Zealand family history a little further and add to your family story.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Four Further Sources for New Zealand Family History
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Fiona Brooker
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Explore your New Zealand family history a little further and add to your family story.
Wed, June 5 2024: 2:00 UTC
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47:20
Organization
Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History
Fiona Brooker
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Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History
Are you wanting to get your family history research organised? Join Fiona as she takes you step by step the process of setting up a system that works for both physical and digital records including your DNA records. Explore other material that you may have also hoarded... whoops I mean collected... and get some tips on staying organised.
Organization
Exciting Discoveries – Organising Your Family History
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Fiona Brooker
1.6K views
Are you wanting to get your family history research organised? Join Fiona as she takes you step by step the process of setting up a system that works for both physical and digital records including your DNA records. Explore other material that you may have also hoarded... whoops I mean collected... and get some tips on staying organised.
Fri, April 12 2024: 5:00 UTC
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12:47
OrganizationWebinar Shorts
Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos
Fiona Brooker
1.1K views
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Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos
Learn how to capture and organize your digital information better. We'll talk about folders, downloading, the snipping tool, creating files and tags. But most importantly you need practice consistency across all these actions.
OrganizationWebinar Shorts
Filing – Unlocking Order in Chaos
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Fiona Brooker
1.1K views
Learn how to capture and organize your digital information better. We'll talk about folders, downloading, the snipping tool, creating files and tags. But most importantly you need practice consistency across all these actions.
Fri, January 12 2024: 14:00 UTC
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1:06:19
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Fiona Brooker
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Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Taking a deeper dive into other resources to extend your New Zealand family history research.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
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Fiona Brooker
469 views
Taking a deeper dive into other resources to extend your New Zealand family history research.
Wed, June 7 2023: 2:00 UTC
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42:08
Methodology and Skills
Slow Down – Planning Your Research
Fiona Brooker
1.3K views
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Slow Down – Planning Your Research
It’s so exciting! You’ve just received a new certificate and have new family names. There’s so much new research to do and before you know it it’s 2am and somehow you missed dinner. Finding new family can be exciting, but sometimes it pays to slow down and plan your research.
Methodology and Skills
Slow Down – Planning Your Research
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Fiona Brooker
1.3K views
It’s so exciting! You’ve just received a new certificate and have new family names. There’s so much new research to do and before you know it it’s 2am and somehow you missed dinner. Finding new family can be exciting, but sometimes it pays to slow down and plan your research.
Fri, April 14 2023: 5:00 UTC
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1:05:28
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors
Fiona Brooker
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Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors
Learn about 19th and 20th century sources for finding your ancestors' arrival in New Zealand.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Encounters – Our Immigrant Ancestors
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Fiona Brooker
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Learn about 19th and 20th century sources for finding your ancestors' arrival in New Zealand.
Wed, October 5 2022: 1:00 UTC
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1:06:00
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
The Bones – New Zealand Civil Registration
Fiona Brooker
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The Bones – New Zealand Civil Registration
Birth, Marriage and Death information provides the bones of our family history skeleton from which we hang the rest of our research about a person. Learn more about the New Zealand records that give your research structure.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
The Bones – New Zealand Civil Registration
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Fiona Brooker
445 views
Birth, Marriage and Death information provides the bones of our family history skeleton from which we hang the rest of our research about a person. Learn more about the New Zealand records that give your research structure.
Wed, June 1 2022: 2:00 UTC
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57:13
Methodology and SkillsWebtember
A Step Through Time(lines)
Fiona Brooker
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A Step Through Time(lines)
Timelines are a great tool for gathering together your research on an ancestor and their family. Learn tips and tricks on creating these and using them in your research and when you publish your family story.
Methodology and SkillsWebtember
A Step Through Time(lines)
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Fiona Brooker
851 views
Timelines are a great tool for gathering together your research on an ancestor and their family. Learn tips and tricks on creating these and using them in your research and when you publish your family story.
Fri, September 17 2021: 0:00 UTC
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1:08:40
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History
Fiona Brooker
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Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History
Add some more detail to your New Zealand Family History by checking four more sources for your research: Military records, NZ Electoral Rolls, The Suffrage Petition and the Cyclopedia of New Zealand.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Four More Sources for New Zealand Family History
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Fiona Brooker
1.3K views
Add some more detail to your New Zealand Family History by checking four more sources for your research: Military records, NZ Electoral Rolls, The Suffrage Petition and the Cyclopedia of New Zealand.
Tue, April 6 2021: 0:00 UTC
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58:58
Places and Ethnicities
The 1939 Register for Family Historians
Fiona Brooker
3.5K views
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The 1939 Register for Family Historians
Following on from the declaration of War, on September 29th 1939, the details of the population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were recorded and identity cards were issued. Findmypast has now published the registers for England and Wales. This talk will look at searching the 1939 Register and what…
Places and Ethnicities
The 1939 Register for Family Historians
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Fiona Brooker
3.5K views
Following on from the declaration of War, on September 29th 1939, the details of the population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were recorded and identity cards were issued. Findmypast has now published the registers for England and Wales. This talk will look at searching the 1939 Register and what…
Tue, June 30 2020: 0:00 UTC
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48:04
Places and Ethnicities
Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Fiona Brooker
4.8K views
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Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
You've checked the New Zealand births, deaths and marriages, now where? Covering cemetery, probate, newspaper and immigration records for tracing your family with New Zealand links.
Places and Ethnicities
Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
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Fiona Brooker
4.8K views
You've checked the New Zealand births, deaths and marriages, now where? Covering cemetery, probate, newspaper and immigration records for tracing your family with New Zealand links.
Fri, March 13 2020: 0:00 UTC
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1:10:51
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Finding Families in New Zealand
Fiona Brooker
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Finding Families in New Zealand
We don’t have any major collections of census records in New Zealand, so how else can you find families in New Zealand. Looking at the use of electoral rolls and school records to add to your family history.
Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Finding Families in New Zealand
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Fiona Brooker
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We don’t have any major collections of census records in New Zealand, so how else can you find families in New Zealand. Looking at the use of electoral rolls and school records to add to your family history.
Tue, August 6 2019: 0:00 UTC
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