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Fiona Brooker

Down Under Series Methodology and Skills Planning, Timelines Places and Ethnicities England, New Zealand 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 (2)

Methodology and Skills
Slow Down – Planning Your Research
Fiona Brooker
Fri, April 14 2023: 5:00 UTC
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Slow Down – Planning Your Research
Fri, April 14 2023: 5:00 UTC
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
Fiona Brooker
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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Down Under SeriesPlaces and Ethnicities
Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Fiona Brooker
Wed, June 7 2023: 2:00 UTC
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Another Four Sources for New Zealand Family History
Wed, June 7 2023: 2:00 UTC
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
Fiona Brooker
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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Fiona's Webinars (7)

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
375 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
746 views
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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
746 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.
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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
4.7K 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
4.7K 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
4.0K views
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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