Sitting high above the township on Crawford Road, just outside of the small Southland town of Mataura, sits the Mataura Cemetery. It is a ...

Way back twenty or more years ago my family history research project was only just beginning to take shape. Most of my research was limite...

Today, the 24th of November 2014, marks what would have been the 100th birthday of my maternal grandfather, John Francis (Jack) EGAN. ...

Every once in a while the reality of life, ….. and in fact death, causes me to stop in my tracks and reassess my life and my place in this ...

I am unsure about the rest of the world, but today in New Zealand it is  Father's  Day, a day we celebrate and remember, and also thank...

Last week on the television I saw a list of 'new' words that have been officially recognised as being able to be used in the game o...