2015 Newsletters
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January Newsletter
- Interesting Graves in the Northern Cemetery
- December 2014 Meeting Report
- Oamaru Cemeteries
- Pukeuri Cemetery
- Richmond Cemetery
- Hilderthorpe Cemetery
- Kakanui Cemetery
- Deborah Cemetery
- Alma Cemetery
- Totara Cemetery
- Five Forks Cemetery
- Kia Ora Cemetery
- Windsor Cemetery
- Weston Cemetery
- Ardgowan Cemetery
- Maheno Cemetery
- Enfield Cemetery
February Newsletter
- Bluff – its history
- Stewart Island – its history
- St Clair Esplanade
- Key Points of Victorian London
- St Clair Presbyterian Church
- Working out Family relationships
- Can You help?
- Useful Australian Websites
March Newsletter
- Report of our February meeting – Toitu Otago Settlers Museum
- Print out digital photos or risk losing them
- 10 most bizarre names ever given
- Dunedin suburbs
- Bluff War Memorial
- Drummond War Memorial
- Can you help?
- A guide to understanding wills
- Tuapeka West
- Otago Harbour Board Roll of Honour
- Omarama
- Article – Better research is needed
April Newsletter
- Report of our March meeting – Census worldwide
- Upper Clutha Schools
- Wanaka – its history, schools, war memorials
- Tarras – its history
- Hawea / Hawea Flat – its history
- Hawea school pupils
- Question and Answers
May Newsletter
- Can you help?
- The story of the Sideys of Corstorphine House
- The Story of Mother’s Day
- Lest We Forget – Albert Edwin Wilson
- The Opoho Great War Roll of Honour
- Report of our April meeting
- Genealogical Dictionary
- Tapanui and its war memorials
- Waikoikoi and its war memorial
- Interesting grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery
- Dunedin, Florida, United States of America
- Moving images sent by wireless
June Newsletter
- Southland icon turns 100
- Lest we forget – Alexander Whiting
- Common nicknames
- Nightcaps – its history and war memorial
- Old Macraes Cemetery
- The frustration of researching names on your family tree
- Lastest additions to Paperspast
- Wendonside War Memorial
- Now and Then
- Websites of use to Genealogists
- Otama War Memorial
- Getting organised – Pedigree charts.
July Newsletter
- A Genealogists Dream
- 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo – how to find out who died
- Mossburn
- Part 2 – Getting our records organised
- A Dunedin icon – Shacklocks
- Guy Fyans Clive Bridgeman – his ancestry
- History of Dunedin Floods and how to care for your records if they get damaged
August Newsletter
- Report of our July meeting – Fact Sheets and GPS for recording genealogy
- Waipori Reunion
- Sad grave in the Old Oamaru Cemetery
- Hannah Letheridge – 1st white woman born in New Zealand
- Tuturau – its history and war memorial
- Everyday things we take for granted
- 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta
- Grandma’s Washday
- Paperspast – latest additions
- Hillend and Stony Creek – its history and war memorial
- Irish Catholic parish records now on-line
- Soldiers Wills at Scotlandspeople
- Quarry Hills – its history and war memorial
- Finding New Zealand Records on familysearch
- Can you help?
September Newsletter
- Report of August meeting – DCC Archives
- Victorian phrases no longer in use
- Greenfield, Southland – history and war memorial
- A stroll in the Green Island Cemetery
1939 English War Register - Do you know the people in these photographs?
- Tuatapere, Southland – history and war memorial
- 10 top Irish databases on-line
- Can you help?
- Frustrations of being a genealogists
October Newsletter
- Where do I find birth, death and marriage information
- What look-ups can our group do for you
- Urban myths and legends
- Thornbury – its history and war memorial
- Holford Grave – Andersons Bay Cemetery
- Owaka 150 years 1865-2015
- Unclaimed letters 31.10.1865
- Longbush – its history and war memorial
- Arrowtown – Then and Now
- First man to be hung in Dunedin
- Dr John MacAdam
- Barton Buildings
- Lest we forget
- DFHG October 2015 newsletter
November Newsletter
- Report of our October meeting – researching in a Dunedin Cemetery
- Problems using headstone transcripts
- Tips for photographing a headstone
- Many of our funeral customs have their historical basis in pagan rituals
- Dating an old Dunedin film
- Seaward Downs
- St Columba’s Church, Wanaka
- Irish Indexes on-line
- Poolburn and Moa Creek
- Alexander John Grant
- Pears’ Soap
- Albany Street School Roll of Honour
- Arthurs Pass Chapel
December Newsletter
- Scottish Naming Patterns
- My Quaker names
- Digging into our Poast – sextons at the Dunedin Southern Cemetery
- Chinese Miners in Central Otago
- Waikiwi War Memorial
- Kennington School War Memorial
- Can You Help?
- Questions and Answers
- New Publications for sale
- Longest reigning Monarchs
- The end of a local icon
- The Macnaughten Contribution to New Zealand’s History 1860-1861
- Interesting grave in the Andersons Bay Cemetery – Martinelli
- Report of our November meeting – Undertakers Records.