Talk:New Zealand Society of Genealogists/2007 Conference

First evening (Friday 1 June)
Fantastic. Organising committee scores 101%. Thought-provoking talk from our Patron the Governor-General, who was born in NZ but whose parents were born in Fiji and grandparents in India. The city's Deputy-Mayor had previously attributed Wellington's character to various ethnic groups (Italian, Greek, Chinese) who had been the main first occupants of certain suburbs. One speaker mentioned that his family tree now has a Vietnamese link, which says a bit about how the world is changing. And we had 45 minutes from the Chief Archivist of National Archives with snippets of records people might not think of searching: barmaids register, films, school inspectors' reports, a million photographs, ...

Must go to bed so I'm not too bleary catching the 7:30 am train to join the Greater London Interest Group meeting that precedes Saturday's proceedings. Robin Patterson 12:47, 1 June 2007 (UTC)