Missing links

The biggest challenge to tracking the family tree has been the missing link of Joseph Alfred Abbott's beginnings. From when I was first encouraged to get on the trail, that has been the single most challenging barrier. When I was working in Wellington back in the nineties, I discovered a record of his gravestone in the Bolton Street cemetery and then subsequently his death certificate etc and it was like finding a pot of gold. Since then I have discovered the wedding of his birth parents at ...
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Hello whanau

Looking for family tree / family history resources? You have come to the right place... sort of. It turns out that it is easier to have one source of 'truth' for this stuff, so some years ago now, I gave all my files to my eldest brother Ben who kindly uploaded them into the site that he hosts now known as Courageous Colonials. The site is kept current by his daughter Nikki Eagle. The family history pages on the Courageous Colonials site contain information about various branches and families....
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