Monthly meetings

Dorothy Walker will be speaking on "Simple Enhancing & repairing of old Photos".

This month we are hosting a "Christmas Special" - free research all day at the FRC with a Christmas lunch provided. GCG will pay for the use of the Library for each of our members. For catering purposes could you please RSVP your attendance to either Dorothy or Chris (contact details on the Contact us page) […]

This month we will be having a Q&A session where members & visitors can put forward questions and hopefully we can provide solutions or advice. We also welcome any tips & finds you may have come across over the holiday period so do please come along and share with the group. 

The GCG Committee invites you to join us by Zoom to our public meeting at 1:30pm Saturday 16th March 24 The Zoom session will open at approx. 1:20pm to allow all to connect. John Soppet will be the Host. At times, it may be necessary to mute all except those speaking to reduce chatter. During that time, if you […]

Luke Howison is going to present to us about his website NZ Ancestor Search Helper. https://ash.howison.co.nz/ https://archway.howison.co.nz/  

Dorothy Walker will be talking about the Society of Genealogists (SOG)  

The GCG will be holding it's Annual General Meeting (AGM) followed by a presentation on the NZSG website by Melanie Middleton. "All the things that members are missing out on by not becoming familiar with the website. There is a huge amount of information available on our website that members do not access. This information […]

This month's speaker will be Mark McKinney who has designed his own genealogical database. Mark will be taking us through his various features and development journey over many years to now have 23GB of data and 4700 files.  

This month's speaker will be Bryn Smith. Bryn will be talking on using maps to enhance your ancestor's story.  

This month's speaker will be Gay Williams. Gay will be talking on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Genealogy.  

This month we will be having a Christmas themed event with a Q&A session. Join us for the afternoon. Food will be provided.

Q&A session. Also Simon Young would like to share a few words about the Family History Storytelling platform he is building called "One Ancestor at a time" It will help people turn their family tree into a book that other family members will want to read, assisted by AI. He is looking for people he […]

From Gears to Google: The Evolution of Computing with Alan Cobcroft Did you know that the origins of computing date back to mechanical devices like the abacus and Charles Babbage's early engines? Join us as Alan Cobcroft takes us on a journey through the fascinating evolution of computing—from 19th-century innovations to the digital age. With […]

Q&A session Discussion on Genealogical apps for smart phones.

AGM followed by our speaker Stephanie van Gaalen from Archives NZ. A general overview of records at Archives and finding records in our database Collections search