FAMILY HISTORY MONTHLY TALKS 2015

Find out more about the resources and services at the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library that can help with your family history research.

Such a settlement as ours*

Willis Street, Wellington, 1863, watercolour by William Howard Holmes. ATL reference no: B-121-015

In 2015 we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Wellington as New Zealands capital city. The Alexander Turnbull Library is a national institution and collections the documentary heritage of New Zealand, Pacific and Antarctica, but Wellington has (and is!) a special place in our collections. Come and hear three experienced Turnbull staff open up

the pictorial, published and manuscript collections of the Library with a special emphasis on finding out about people and places in Wellingtons past. Speakers: Jenni Chrisstoffels Research Librarian, Pictorial, Rita Havell

Research Librarian, and Amy Watling Online Research Services Leader

Wednesday 17 June 2015

12:10 1:00pm Venue: Tiakiwai, Lower Ground Floor

National Library building, cnr Molesworth & Aitken Street, Wellington

There will be a Conservation Clinic following the talk. Get preservation advice on the care, handling and storage of your treasured family items from Field Conservator Vicki-Anne Heikell. Please note that conservators are not able

to provide valuations. Bookings essential preservation@dia.govt.nz

Watch the national Library website for information about future talks and events www.natlib.govt.nz

*From: Some schools and schoolmasters of early Wellington: with an account of the provision made for education in later times, by George MacMorran. Wellington; S. & W. Mackay, 1900. (From the preface Much interest always attaches in later times to the early chronicles of such a settlement as ours).