Our Family Our Story

How wonderful to be able to spend time with my father’s brother Uncle Geoff. My father was one of 4 brothers born and brought up near Flint in Wales. As my father emigrated to New Zealand in 1951, I knew of my uncles but I had never met any of them. Uncle Geoff is the [...]

The hardest part is just starting….
Think about this….. Most of us do not have any trouble talking. We meet someone and we start talking. If its a family member or a friend out it all comes, usually without any thought as to how we compose the sentences, what word we start a sentence with, how [...]

This is a great question to ask others when you’re writing your family history. When I put this question to a group of 20 women recently, most of them had had an imaginary friend in their childhood. They hadn’t thought about these childhood memories for years.
Some of the friends were children around their own age [...]

I decided to share one of my stories about dolls. I loved them. I guess because I was an only child until 7 years old, dolls were my companions.
The photo in the last post was taken on Christmas day…you can tell that because we’re dressed up in our best clothes. I so wanted the latest [...]

Mum, Dad and daughter. Nothing particularly interesting about this photo….you wouldn’t know where it was, why it was taken. There’s nothing of historical importance either.

However when I thought about it there was a lot to tell….that only Mum, Dad and I would know. These are the steps to where we lived in Rangiatea Rd, Epsom, [...]

This is a way you can show your childhood if you don’t have very many photos. Just adhere the photos to your page and write your story a bit like a narrative.

Start each different section of your childhood in a new paragraph. Just write it down as if you were telling someone the story. And [...]

I love this photo….

When my mother-in-law Nancy, died in 2003 she left a pile of photos in a shoe box, as so many people do. On the back of this one was written “Beth, Nancy & Isobel at Flaxton Beach” From other photos in the box I’ve figured out it was taken around 1939/1940. I [...]