Thursday 3 September 2009

29th April 2009 - Emigration

We have had a Phd student in this week investigating the movement of people between Orkney and Otago, New Zealand. We have been kept busy producing family histories, memoirs and letters from the 19th century as well as tickets for passage and newspaper adverts enticing people to the New World.

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