family tree Archives - Vicky Adin Author https://vickyadin.co.nz/tag/family-tree/ NZ Women's Fiction and Historical Fiction Writer Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:29:57 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/vickyadin.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/favicon-32x32-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 family tree Archives - Vicky Adin Author https://vickyadin.co.nz/tag/family-tree/ 32 32 133248656 It’s all in the bones https://vickyadin.co.nz/2022/06/13/its-all-in-the-bones/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-all-in-the-bones https://vickyadin.co.nz/2022/06/13/its-all-in-the-bones/#respond Sun, 12 Jun 2022 19:30:00 +0000 https://vickyadin.co.nz/?p=2050 Apart from having an addiction to travelling, I long ago discovered genealogy was in my bones, or should that be blood? Whichever way you describe it, I can spend hours online looking for the who’s who of family, and how they are connected, clicking away to my heart’s content. I’m like a bloodhound. I can...

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]]> https://vickyadin.co.nz/2022/06/13/its-all-in-the-bones/feed/ 0 2050 Living history as we make it; interesting days https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/10/21/living-history-as-we-make-it-interesting-days/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-history-as-we-make-it-interesting-days https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/10/21/living-history-as-we-make-it-interesting-days/#respond Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:21:23 +0000 https://vickyadin.co.nz/?p=1749 I’ve spent quite some time running down rabbit holes recently looking for people and their stories, discovering what life was like in the 1920s here in New Zealand, and connecting a few dots. What struck me most while doing this research, is how similar life is today to then, as it was fifty or a...

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]]> https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/10/21/living-history-as-we-make-it-interesting-days/feed/ 0 1749 How to find the laughter and the tears https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/06/18/how-to-find-the-laughter-and-the-tears/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-find-the-laughter-and-the-tears https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/06/18/how-to-find-the-laughter-and-the-tears/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2021 18:57:00 +0000 https://vickyadin.co.nz/?p=1667 I became a genealogist long before I started writing novels, and love delving into the past. I’ve recently had the privilege of helping someone write up their family tree. It’s been a fascinating experience, following the good times: the love, the successes, and the laughter. But there are always enmities and tragedies among the convoluted...

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]]> https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/06/18/how-to-find-the-laughter-and-the-tears/feed/ 1 1667 When Portrait of a Man became a mosaic-like mystery https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/04/28/looking-for-that-special-mothers-day-gift-then-look-no-longer/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-for-that-special-mothers-day-gift-then-look-no-longer https://vickyadin.co.nz/2021/04/28/looking-for-that-special-mothers-day-gift-then-look-no-longer/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2021 00:30:09 +0000 https://vickyadin.co.nz/?p=1605 Intricately woven stories to tease apart… Readers with even just a passing interest in family trees and genealogy will be drawn into the fragments of this mosaic-like mystery…A refreshingly different family saga … PORTRAIT OF A MAN When Matteo Borgoni steps ashore in Port Chalmers in January 1863, he is a man on a mission, and...

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