FoLA Meeting March 2025 FoLA AGM (7pm) The Biar family divided: Emigrants on two continents (Geoff Saegenschnitter) (7.30pm) While researching and publishing the Biar family history in Australia in 1971, Geoff Saegenschnitter discovered that the Biar family were of Wendish origin rather than German, and that two Biar brothers left their home in Groditz, Saxony […]

FoLA Meeting February 2025 Mads Christensen: A Danish pastor in New Zealand During the 1870s there was a significant emigration from Scandinavia to the North Island of New Zealand. Some three thousand Danes, Norwegians and Swedes settled on land allocated by the government in Wairarapa and southern Hawkes Bay. To minister to them, the first […]