OLD GUESTBOOK ENTRIES - The Real Pakaru Homepage - 1998-2000 http://www.geocities.com/~wlorac/ Name: Tracy E-mail : t_tewhaiti@hotmail.com Thu July 6th 2000 04:31:29 Comments: KIA ORA! This is beautiful work. Alot of information is given and nice page set-up's. It is very colourful and attracting. I have spent hours looking through this site because it is amazing. KA KITE! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : Karl Burrows E-mail : karlburrows@yahoo.co.nz Mon June 26th 2000 02:10:36 Comments: Kia ora Carol, I enjoyed your whakapapa page. You have certainly inspired a lot of people. My whanau is from Ngati Maru in Taranaki and I was wondering whether you have come across our iwi in your research as our rohe neighbours your hapu and our tipuna were busy jumping rivers and marrying each other in the past, particularly around the time of Te Kere. I am setting up an "unofficial Ngati Maru web site and will keep you posted. Heoi ano... Karl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Louise Kiwara E-mail : louise_kiwara@hotmail.com Wed June 21st 2000 01:47:16 Comments: great webpage. I am trying to find out about my whakapapa. I am from Ngati Porou Ka kite ano louise --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dave Tewhatu E-mail : davet@faira.org.au Tue June 20th 2000 06:42:52 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Janny E-mail : Janny_NZ@Bolt.com Sun June 18th 2000 06:56:32 Comments: Hi,i'm from Manaia,Taranaki!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: John Allen E-mail : johnpaulallen@juno.com Homepage URL: http://www.cybamall.com/absolute Wed June 7th 2000 07:38:37 Comments: Well, my step-kids are gone for the night and I'm sitting here watching a movie. The advantage of owning a laptop is that I can sit here, pay attention to the television and still surf sites. I'm not done here, but I wanted to tell you I'm enjoying myself a bunch. When you have time come and visit my site and if you're on a roll stop and see the site my wife and I created together at http://www.angelfire.com/tx/Allenx5 Well, got to do some more exploring. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hone E-mail address: honet@zfree.co.nz Fri May 26th 2000 06:49:14 Comments: Cool stuff! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Rupene E-mail address: Maoriboy.inc@mindless.com Homepage URL: http://theoffice.net/maoriboy Thu May 11th 2000 07:27:11 Comments: Tena Koe Carol. Thanks for dropping by my site & signing the GB. It is great to hear from others online. I've had a good look around your site here and am very impressed with its layout, ease of use & especially the content and hard work that you have put into it. Keep up the great work. For all others who stop by here... a little quote for you... Engari kaua e wareware, Ahakoa hi iti he pounamu No matter how little you learn, It is still precious. Take care.... Kia Ora ra.... Rupene... Maoriboy.inc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Teddy Andrews E-mail address: sms@quicksilver.net.nz Homepage URL: http://www.hometown.aol.com/tamaki88/index2.html Wed May 10th 2000 05:23:23 Comments: thanx carol --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Te Aroha Hill E-mail address: jamie.hill@wcc.govt.nz Mon May 8th 2000 03:12:23 Comments: Kia Ora Everyone, just thought i would leave a quick note aswell. So what is happening i am an 19 year old female and i was just looking through the guestbook to see if i knew any of you guys. I live in the big smoke of Wellington, the best clubs in New Zealand. Yee Haa. I must say i am really proud of our people. Otherwise we Wellingtonians are still ROCKING IT HARD. If anyone wants too write, dont be shy. Hei konei ra. Te Aroha Hill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Harry Pascoe E-mail address: Pascoe0727@aol.com of Warren,Mi U.S.A Saturday May 6th 2000 07:48:04 Comments: Interesting web page. I am looking for Joe Edmonds, he came to New Zealand in the years 1859-1863. He was from Hayle, Cornwall England --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: JO HICKS E-mail address: joquitahicks@hotmail.com Tue May 2nd 2000 01:51:22 Comments: Tino Pai.. Could go through this site over and over again, but I'm at work better get back to it. Will definitely will visit again. Anything about the 28th Maori Battalion???? My koro was in it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Wendy E-mail address: ladynz@hotmail.com Wed April 26th 2000 08:49:00 Homepage URL: http://ladynz.virtualave.net Comments: Tena koe Carol, He mihi nui, he mihi aroha kia koe i tenei Tau Hou. Ka huri au ki te reo tuarua.. Hey there.. somehow these tutu fingers of mine have stumbled onto a site full of Maori Netters... PRIMO.. Though my page isn't as awesome as yours or some of the others, I can still call it mine. Great site you have here, I'll have to stop back and read some more.. No reira, kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui... Byeeee.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Amanda_NZ E-mail address: amanda_or@jesusaves.every1.net Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/amanda_nz.geo/NZ_index Tue April 25th 2000 03:18:59 Comments: http://www.geocities.com/amanda_nz.geo/kiwi.gif Hi, nice to meet up with a fellow kiwi, I am from Taihape, although I am presently living in Oregon, USA. A great site you have here, very imformative. Many blessings. Amanda --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: carolyn macleod (nee norman) E-mail address: guppy31@optusnet.com.au Homepage URL: http://haven't got one Fri April 7th 2000 01:40:05 Comments: kia ora! I am curently trying to find out anything about my father Henry norman. all i know of him is that he was born in Kaitaia in 1931- exact date not known nor do i know the names of his parents. he died in 1974 around the invercargill area. if anyone has any information about him or his family i would be grateful if you could e mail me back. thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: gerry stroup E-mail address: gerrystroup@hotmail.com Thu March 9th 2000 07:33:39 Comments: Kia ora! I spent 3 months in your beautiful country this past summer (your winter). I have some very good Maori friends in Kerikeri and Kao. I hoping to return to New Zealand again this year. I am a professional singer and I performed in New Zealand while there. I live in the US, in New Orleans. Yes, we just got through with Mardi Gras. I enjoyed you web sight. I also spend a good deal of time in Whangerei and Auckland. Ciao! Gerry Stroup --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kerry Davis E-mail address: kbdavis5@home.com Homepage URL: http://members.home.net/kbdavis5/ Thu February 3rd 2000 03:37:03 Comments: Kia ora Carol, Your Page and the information is super. Thanks for lighting the fire in this fellow. I'm really interested in doing my whakapapa now and know that I'll be leaving something special for my Canadian family. I'm sure I'll be a regular surfer on your site for a long time. Thanks, Kerry --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Marie Hoy E-mail address: tammikka_2000@yahoo.com Thu January 13th 2000 06:48:43 Comments: I am an 18 year old Canadian girl who is doing a project on aboriginal rights and land claims in New Zealand and Australia, compared to Canada. I found your site helpful in finding the information I needed. I visited New Zealand two years ago because my mom's side lives there. It's a beautiful country, very much different from Canada. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Erina Kumeroa E-mail address: erina.kumeroa@telecom.co.nz Tue January 11th 2000 12:51:48 Comments: AWESOME SIGHT, I AM CURRENTLY RESEARCHING MY WHAKAPAPA AND HAVE FOUND YOUR SITE EXTREMELY MOTIVATING! WHANGANUI IS MY HOME TOWN AND HAS A VERY STRONG MAORI HISTORY AS TARANAKI AND THIS WILL HOPEFULLY MAKE MY JOB EASIER, BUT AS I LIVE IN AUCKLAND I AM FINDING THAT THE WHANAU ARE NOT QUITE CONNECTED TO THE "ON-LINE" WORLD YET. THANKS FOR YOUR INSIGHT INT0 MAORI AND THE ON-LINE WORLD. KIA ORA Erina Kumeroa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: wayne john morehu marumaru E-mail address: waynejohn23@hotmail.com Fri December 10th 1999 09:41:48 Comments: Not a bad site to visit will call again --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Red E-mail address: hjrred@hotmail.com Mon December 6th 1999 03:25:30 Comments: I am Irish, from Belfast, and doing feminist resaerch into education, thus the link to mana wahine maori. I feel a great empathy with this struggle with reference to my own country's past. Irish (Catholic) culture was basically outlawed at one point under the British and many children were taught their culture and language in secret 'hedge schools' which took place literally in the hedges. Culture flourishes most when it is threatened. I live in Istanbul and am amazed to see the links here to Turkey via Gallipoli. I also believe Atatürk was a wonderful politician who is still adored here. He was a soldier fighting for his country's freedom, thus he was warm and empathetically human in his response to all the dead soldiers. Turks are wonderfully warm people, much like the Irish in my experience. I love living here. I feel very at home. Thanks for listening. Your site is lovely. I really enjoyed browsing. Feel free to Email me if anything above struck a nerve. Red. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Deborah Oney E-mail address: DebbieOney@aol.com Homepage URL: http://members.aol.com/debbieoney/blood.htm Tue November 30th 1999 10:10:30 Comments: Interesting website. The graphics are superb. Deborah Oney, Blood Recall/Withdrawal - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Darcy Kemp E-mail address: TANDAR.FRAHAR@xtra.co.nz Homepage URL: http://sites.netscape.net/mrholes/homepage Mon November 8th 1999 03:37:10 Comments: Joseph Alfred Abbott, son of James Abbott, born in USA circa 1844-47 and emigrated to new zealand. Children include- Joseph henry abbott, lydia, eric alfred, george, evadne, hattie, adde, anne, fanny etc Joseph married Maryann Hutt, daughter of Thomas Hutt in 1873 at the St James church in Cust north Canterbury. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Karearea's Pad E-mail address: karearea@yahoo.com Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/jessnz/genweb.html Fri November 5th 1999 10:55:30 Comments: Research interests include: ABBOTT, SCORINGE/SCORRINGE/SCHORINGE, CORBETT, CURRAN, NIDDRIE, OVEREND, CORNWALL, TREVETHICK. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jacqui Coleman E-mail address: JColeman@booksinhomes.org.nz Thu November 4th 1999 07:39:45 Comments: Carol You are amazing and have such talent. What a treasure to have online for the future Whyte's and my family. Thank you from your sister-in-law to be!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hoani Horsfall E-mail address: hhorsfall@dlwc.nsw.gov.au Tue October 26th 1999 07:23:23 Comments: Kiaora Carol I'm from Taranaki too!!, (Manaia) but I live in Sydney now. Just surfing looking up site with reference to the "Maori Battalion". I have an Uncle who was was in it. I've read a a book by Wira Gardiner but I'm still looking for any online resources. My tribes are Ngati Ruanui & Rongowhakaata (Gisborne). Oh well I better do some work ka kite Hoani Horsfall --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: I.& L.Tilbury E-mail address: i.l.tilbury@xtra.co.nz Tue October 19th 1999 03:28:03 Comments: we have only just found the gen. n.z. page and what we have seen so far we find it interesting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: CLAYTON JONES Sun September 26th 1999 06:21:45 Comments: KIORA! I AM FROM AMERICA IN SALT LAKE CITY. I AM A LATE DECENDANT OF A GREAT CHIEF TE HAPUKU. MY MOTHER IS MAORI AND MY FATHER IS PAKEHA. THEY SPLIT UP12 YRS AGO. MY MOM IS IN CALIFORNIA, MY MAORI FAMILY LIVES IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, AND IN SOME PARTS OF NEW ZEALAND. I AM GLAD TO FIND A PAGE ON MAORI CULTURE. I AM IN GREAT NEED TO LEARN MORE OF OUR GREAT ANCESTORS. I DONT HAVE A E-MAIL SO IF ANYBODY READS THIS, AND KNOWS ANYTHING OF MY ANCESTORS. WRITE TO ME ABOUT THEM HERE IN USA. CLAYTON JONES 5292W 4310S W.V.C UT 84120 U.S.A --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Rex Landy E-mail address: wychbych@hotmail.com Sat September 25th 1999 02:54:34 Comments: Kia ora Carol Ko Rex taku ingua Ko Kura Haupo taku waka Ko kotipu taku maunga Ko takahue taku awa Ko Nga Puhi taku iwi Ko Tahawai taku hapu Can you tell me the whereabouts in England of Hine Mihi? She is a meeting house that survived the Tarawera eruption, and was 'gifted' to the Queen. I need to visit her, but do not know where she is. Do you? My great great grandparents sheltered in her during the eruption. Kapai nei Kia kaha wahine toa Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Lesley Sinclair E-mail address: les.sin@start.com.au Mon September 13th 1999 04:57:43 Comments: Good site! Researching names Marsh and Cummings, married at Lyttleton in 1864. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ni Hake E-mail address: N.HAKI@XTRA.CO.NZ Homepage URL: http://mysite.xtra.co.nz/~UtupakuComputers Mon August 30th 1999 05:47:37 Comments: Tena koe Tumeke rawa-atu te ingoa o to "Home page" engari nga mihi nui ki a koe mo to kaha ki te mahi i au mahi rangatira. Ni. Ka korero ano ki a koe a tetahi wa. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Manu Niwa Thu August 19th 1999 05:33:44 Comments: Kia Ora koutou, Kei te pehi a koe arohanui manu niwa --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jeni Roxburgh-Smith E-mail address: roxy@global.net.au Thu August 5th 1999 01:35:21 Comments: Kia ora Carol After a lot of searching we found your page and lol. Still searching for our whakapapa......... Hei Konei ra. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Sarndra E-mail address: suzi@es.co.nz Homepage URL: http://www.angelfire.com/ok/nzfamily Wed July 28th 1999 03:56:28 Comments: Researching names including: Arbuckle,Beer/Beare, Blackadder, Boyle, Collison, Cook, Erskine, Evans, Fergusson, Firmston, Gruelich, Guest, Hahn, Hand, Hannah, Henning, Holder, Hooker, Hyndman, Jacot, Johnston, Kennedy, Kitchener, Klempin, Laverie, Lawson, Lees, Leese, Leonard, Lodge, Macleary, McKai/McKay, McLees, Mace, Macey, Meadows, Mehrtens, Morier, Niethe, Paesche, Pawson, Preece, Rankin, Stevens-Crane, Stevenson, Turnbull, Vale, Wheeler, Wilson, Wort/Wert, York/Yorke, Young, Zimmerman --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Martha Roman Tue July 27th 1999 01:26:57 Comments: I really love visiting your page and love to see the maori culture alive and well. Hello to all the whanau. Marty --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kiwi Schaad E-mail address: Cats102727@aol.com Sun July 25th 1999 06:01:37 Comments: I like New Zealand! It´s a beautiful place on earth! Best Wishes! Kiwi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: nicole E-mail address: kotironicci@hotmail.com Sun July 25th 1999 04:45:38 Comments: Kia Ora,great website --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Wairua Thu July 8th 1999 01:42:28 Comments: People of the AOTEAROA the TRUTH IS OUT!!!!!!! NOW see why our COUNTRY and ITS PEOPLE is in so much turmoil and suffering, as with the rest of the world ... THE TRUTH IS OUT... and what has been kept secret by corrupt greedy people to our people for generations... and other New Zealanders also... READ THE TRUTH... "GOVERNMENT COVERUPS - Secret Societys" Pass this on to every New Zealander in the country... GET THE TRUTH OUT!!!... ALL YOU PEOPLE ... GET THIS INFORMATION OUT AND SPREAD IT TO THE PEOPLE OF New Zealand, THE TRUTH HAS TO GOTTEN OUT TO THE PEOPLE... NOW!!!!!!! OUR Childrens FUTURE depends on US in the HERE NOW!!!!!! Kia Kaha - Stay TRUE to your Self... Spirit - Wairua Secret Societys http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/secret.html http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ronald Green E-mail address: rwgreen@bellsouth.net Homepage URL: http://www2.crosswinds.net Wed June 30th 1999 06:11:17 Comments: Just surfing 'round the world and checking in as I go --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Pat E-mail address: pmc@iname.com Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/Canopy/4029/ Sat June 26th 1999 01:32:08 Comments: Hi....I just wanted to say I found some really useful links from your site... Cheers! Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kodi Hapi E-mail address: Te_Hononga@hotmail.com Sat June 19th 1999 09:58:17 Comments: Teena koe Carol, Ahakoa, kaatahi anoo ahau kia kite i teenei whaarangi, kei te pirangi au ki te mihi ki a koe moo tau mahi whakahirahira, hei whakakotahi i ngaa tangata e kimi ana i o taatou maaoritanga. Noo reira kia kaha, kia maia, kia manawanui, i a koe e hapai i te kaupapa nei..... Kodi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: vanessa patea E-mail address: whatipu@yahoo.com Wed June 16th 1999 05:47:47 Comments: choice site........... ka pai --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Huseyin Kuday E-mail address: cococan@hotmail.com Homepage URL: http://www.portgate.com/personal/bulent.htm Tue June 15th 1999 05:23:29 Comments: Hi, My homepage is not ready yet. I was working on it and I needed some information on Gallipoli and I did a search. That is how I found your page. I am a Turkish Canadian. I am working on a poem that Turkey's current priminister Bulent Ecevit wrote some years ago. I was trying to translate it in to English so that my friends and other people whose ancestors lost their lives there with mine would read it. It is a real touching piece of work and I was so proud of our priminister when I read it. I couldn't help my tears. It is very hard to translate it without losing the emotional content though. I know I have done some heavy damage to it already but that is best I can do. Regards Huseyin Kuday --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Scott Salii E-mail address: belauanboy@crosswinds.html Homepage URL: http://www2.crosswinds.net/~belauanboy/bemtuu.html Tue June 1st 1999 06:36:31 Comments: Alii, Carol !! That's a greeting from the island of Belau. I'm really glad I surfed uppon your site! I think it's an excellent exposition of your heritage and pride, as well as an impressive demonstration of your skills. I have never had the pleasure of visiting Aotearoa, but traveling is and has always been one of my favorite things, and if fortune smiles upon me I will soon see the land of the long white cloud... Until then, I shall visit your site often, to daydream of that trip. Ke kmal mesaul, mla rullii tial kmal ungil "website". (thanks for making this excellent site for the world to see> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Pat Nuku E-mail address: pat@kohanga.ac.nz Homepage URL: http://kohanga.ac.nz Mon May 17th 1999 04:22:10 Comments: Great Resource!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ko Arana Tuuta taku ingoa! E-mail address: scootertrike@tupac.com Homepage URL: http://members.tripod.com/~scootertrike/scooterman Mon May 10th 1999 05:11:12 Comments: Nga Mihi Nui kia Koe Carol! KO Allan raua ko Lil aku matua! Ko Regeby toku tiena! Ko Arana Tuuta taku ingoa! No Wharekauri ahau! (Save it!) I've visited your Pakaru homepage! Tu-Meke tou whakaro! please visit my homepage for a Titiro! And don't forget to sign my guestbook! kia ora! Arana! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Shelley E-mail address: aroha_21@hotmail.com Tue April 27th 1999 05:59:02 Comments: Well a bit Kia Ora to you! FINALLY some panui and information about so much. havent got my own homepage yet, but certainly happy and excited that so much is going on home in Aotearoa. Kia ora to all the whanau and iwi in Rotorua and Auckland. Ka Kite !!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: ~*SaNoE*~ E-mail address: hawaiian_baybee@innocent.com Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2688 Fri April 23rd 1999 09:44:05 Comments: ~*AlOhA!*~ I liked your page...it was very informative n interesting! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Beau Reweti E-mail address: reweti@xtra.co.nz Homepage URL: http://homepages.infoseek.com/~ipofubjob/Reweti.html Fri April 23rd 1999 06:09:54 Comments: Thanks for listing me on your home pages section. Please note the change in my URL. Love your site! Beau Reweti --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: R.Klaassen E-mail address: ruge@wishmail.net Sun April 18th 1999 05:14:36 Comments: very nice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kanai'akukui E-mail address: please@lava.net Homepage URL: http://www.lava.net/~please Mon April 12th 1999 12:46:40 Comments: Kia Ora!! Aloha mai e te hoa Maori. Pehea la 'oe? I'm from Hawai'i and I remember you signed my guestbook and I thought I'd do the same. We visited Aotearoa in 1997 and stayed for three and a half weeks. It was the best trip I have ever went on...we visited Auckland, Rotorua, Moeraki, Christchurch, and Dunedin...It was great but...there were only four men and speaking at all those powhiri got a little tiring for us. But it was a great experience .....anyways Aloha nui ia 'oe me kou 'ohana a e malama pono! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: louise spooner E-mail address: louisespooner@ntu.com.au Fri April 9th 1999 03:36:30 Comments: Hi I have been surfing the net for some informatin about how to find my family's Whakapapa. The family has been divided for year's although I want to find my family and I know my mother wants to know at least to pay respect's to her farther. We did try Birth, Deaths and Marragies with no luck all I know is his name is Albert Mason and that he came from Rotarua and has past away in the 70's. If you could help with some direction I should go in I would appreciate it. Thank You. Louise. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Danny Skirvin E-mail address: dskirvin@uiuc.edu Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Plaza/6068/index.html Thu March 25th 1999 08:11:40 Comments: You have a really neat site. I am doing a critical analysis on Eruera, the Teachings of A Maori Elder and I searched for it and stumbled accross your page. You had a lot of truly fascinating material and I appreciate you sharing it with me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jason Morehu E-mail address: 951830@mail.macarthur.uws.edu.au Fri March 5th 1999 05:44:01 Comments: Kia Ora from Sydney, Australia. Excellent reading. Makes me miss home(Thames N.Z) Arohanui & Wishing you all the best. Regards Jason Morehu. Sydney, Australia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: bubbles E-mail address: stud1@shgcham.nz Wed March 3rd 1999 02:25:34 Comments: very good and clear --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Donna Roberts E-mail address: donna.roberts@imvs.sa.gov.au Homepage URL: http://members.xoom.com/DonnaRoberts/Gene%20page.html Wed February 10th 1999 09:09:15 Comments: Researching ROBERTS, STARKEY, McMURTRIE and WATERREUS in New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kathy Garner E-mail address: sauder@direct.ca Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2238/ Mon January 18th 1999 03:02:17 Comments: I'm so glad to have seen your site. I found it in the GenSearch Ring. I like the layout and it's so easy to follow. -Kathy --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Meryl & Leo Hopa E-mail address: HOPALM@xtra.co.nz Wed December 30th 1998 02:47:36 Comments: Kia Ora, We have no home page yet, love your homegrown and wider info of Aotearoa. Have left you questions on Pakaru Homepage email. I am able to tell the children a lot more now of their heritage. Any links to Rangitoto Kereama(Mrs Williams) yet please? Please email or ph/fax at 06 376 5507. Aroha atu, Te Hopa Whanau. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Geraint Johnes E-mail address: johnes@hotpop.com Homepage URL: http://johnes.web-page.net Mon December 14th 1998 03:33:55 Comments: Nice pages, Carol. Your geneological research is impressive - you inspire me to dig deeper into my own family tree. Keep up the good work. Please visit our site.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Milton Froggatt E-mail address: frogg@igrin.co.nz Homepage URL: http://www.igrin.co.nz/~frogg/ Fri December 11th 1998 04:59:37 Comments: FROGGATT Genealogy. Also: ANDERSON,BECK,CALDER,CHAPMAN,DOYLE,JONES,LOWE,MORTON, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kingi The Kiwi E-mail address: kingi_nz@hotmail.com Homepage URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/3205/ Tue December 1st 1998 07:44:13 Comments: Awesome page. I want to join your Web Ring look cool. You have spent a lot of time on your site I am only starting :-). Great to see more Kiwis on the Net. Keep it up ....... Kingi The Kiwi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hopa Kereama E-mail: HOPALM@pop3.xtra.co.nz 28 Nov 1998 I am certain by reading Waitapu Kereama's family history that my husband is the son of Rangitoto Kereama (Mrs Williams) whom he never knew has been trying to find out anything we can about her. All we have ever had was the name(s)and no connection. We would appreciate any news of whanau, history, whakapapa. My husband, Te Mana Hereora Leo Hopa was born 11 July 1938 at Castlecliff Wanganui and brought up by his father's sister Huingapoura Nepe(nee Hopa) at Taupiri.He is now 60. His father was Takiwaiora Rikihana Tamiti Hopa born 31/12/1889 died 1964?(alias Thomas Hooper)who worked as a Native Inspector in the Wanganui,Taranaki district approx 1928-1953. Any info would be appreciated about this lady. Her birth where and death when? Our home address is 26 Tay Street, Woodville. (06)376 5507. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Te Manawanui Clarkson E-mail: clarkson@arcom.com.au 5 Nov 1998 It is very rare to see someone else with the same name as me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kay in Kansas E-mail: rdvkb@lvnworth.com 20 Oct 1998 Carol...just scanned, briefly, your webpage..it is a "work of art" ... keep up the good work... Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Miri (Hamon) Evans E-mail: cmtevans@juno.com 16 Oct 1998 A very interesting site. I am a descendant of Arapata Taniwha and Terina Te Whetowheto. MANY of my relatives are still on the N. Island. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Bad Bunny E-mail: kelly_dubaski@bigfoot.com url: http://come.to/heaven.html 4 Oct 1998 Nice page. Very informative. Keep it up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Tiare E-mail: polynesianpride@hotmail.com Fri Nov 13 1998 Aloha, 'O Tiare Ko'u inoa, noho au i ke kulanakauhale o Wailuku, ma ka motupuni o Maui, ma ka pae 'aina o Hawai'i. Greeting, my name is Tiare and I come from the city of Wailuku, on the island on Maui, In the archipelago of Hawai'i. I just wanted to say that you have a home page that's full of (Mana) I personally am Hawaiian, Tongan, Samoan, and Fijian wich is a massive mixture.... I admire the words or your people they are very poetic an true- A group of my friends just went to Aotearoa a couple of months ago and they all wanted to go back and visit... To me that shows the Aloha, and Mana of your people. Mahalo nui loa for your words... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Eric E-mail: esua@cisco.com Sat Nov 7 1998 I really liked your web page,it makes me feel like Im back home again!Im a kiwi who lives in the U.S. Im samoan born in New Zealand and moved to the U.S. when I was 5 years old. I go back every 3 years to visit my mum side of the family. My grandmum and the whole family! Keep up the good work! Tofa soifua! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Gretchen E-mail: gretch1128@earthlink.net Url: http://home.earthlink.net/~gretch1128 Tue Nov 3 1998 Nice site, great layout. Keep up the good work! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Putiputi E-mail: ngeru@ihug.co.nz Url: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/3528/index.htm Sun Nov 1 1998 Kia Ora. Just popped in to see how you are going. I love rambling around in your place Arohanui Putiputi --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Allan E-mail: allanjb@xtra.co.nz Sat Oct 24th 1998 09:58:06 Comments: Some beautiful work, with much time spent on it. I want to come back and look some more..... I see the geneological work you have put in.... Gorgeous. I love it! I will return --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: KC and KT E-mail: macdonk@linwoodhigh.school.nz Mon Oct 19th 1998 03:58:04 Comments: Kia Ora Carol, My friend and I is admiring your pages that are very interest to us. We coming from the beautiful islands of Samoa and like to see it the maori culture and words. Kei te pehea koe? We know some words but not the mean of what it is. People tell us that we have haunga kokinas, and that we are piro. What is this meaning? Is it the bad thing? We hoping not. Anyways good page and we like it . Kia Kaha KC and KT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name:Carol Pack Urban E-mail: riverridge@webtv.net URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/4606 Mon Oct 19th 1998 05:42:05 Comments: Yours is the best website I have ever visited. The history and knowledge you convey is overwhelming. I could spend days upon days reviewing your site and traveling from link to link. It is wonderful you are able to do this. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name:Carlos Campo E-mail: crkx Sat Oct 3rd 1998 05:53:08 Comments: In the British cemetery, Galipoli, there is a large tablet from Clement Attaturk with a message for the mothers of soldiers buried there. It is a beautiful message, and I have been unable to find it despite diligent searches. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------------ webmaster - Mon Oct 5th 1998 09:09:53 Comments: Hiya Campo, The message on the wall is on my War Page, it states: "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives..... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. There forever rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets, to us, where they lie side by side, here, in this country of ours..... You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land, they have become our sons as well." Mustafa Kemal ATATURK Cheers Carol --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Aroha Mon Sept 14th 1998 03:48:48 Comments: Kia Ora Ko Kakepuku toku maunga ko Waikato toku awa ko Hoturoa toku Ranatira Ko Tainui toku Waka Ko Ngati Maniapoto raua ko Ngati Kahu oku Iwi no reira tena koe --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Murray Shuttleworth E-mail : shuttle@es.co.nz URL: http://homepages.ihug.nz.co/~shuttle Tues Sept 1st 1998 07:56:59 Comments: A great homepage and you have put a lot of effort into it. I ask also can I please link your page on mine. thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Putiputi E-mail: ngeru@ihug.co.nz URL: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/3528/index.htm Fri Aug 28th 1998 02:51:31 Comments: Kia Ora Carole Just popped in to say hello and run around your place again. I really enjoy my visits and seeing what you are up to. So until next time Ka kite ano Arohanui Putiputi : ) : ) : ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hone T URL: http://www.waikato.net/tyy/ Thu Aug 20th 1998 18:07:56 Comments: Your pages look cool. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Dean Shipley E-mail : shipley@genealogy.org URL: http://ghn.genealogy.org Thu Aug 20th 1998 17:47:28 Responding to your request to give you link to Genealogy Help Network in our International section. Will do that ASAP. Like your NZ site. Would appreciate a corresponding link from yours to ours. WINDSONG SHIPLEY --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Jimmy T Sat Aug 15th 1998 00:36:54 Kia ora Cool maori pages!! Hope to visit again soon as I can. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Rick URL: http://www.digitalwebworks.com Wed Aug 12th 1998 11:10:46 You have a great site. If you are looking for the #1 in Web Design and Hosting. goto: http://www.digitalwebworks.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: PTLC Tue Aug 11th 1998 10:51:53 Malo lava le Soifua...Talofa. Wow Carol, Im impressed your webpage is just Tu Meke!!! Its really neat to come across a fellow kiwi webpage... im in Auckland too!! You did an awesome job....Keep up the good work!! It's encouraging to see someone who is touch with their heritage, family and culture. Tofa Soifua...Kia Kaha. Be back for more! :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: ~Eagle Woman~ E-mail : loveuhon@hotmail.com URL: http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/4362 Thu Aug 6 1998 10:47 Hopi, I would like to thank you for visiting my homepage and do hope that you will come back again. Secondly, I wanted to visit you as well. You have a very nice homepage here and I have even bookmarked a few of your links. I wish you much success in your efforts on becoming a database administrator. May the Great Spirit always shine upon you and yours. Take care. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Sylvia McCollum E-mail: islandgirl35@webtv.net URL: http://members.tripod.com/~islandgirl35/index.html Mon Aug 3 22:59 Hi there...aloha... I am from the Big Island of Hawaii..I really like your site...it was so interesting..to love your heritage as much as you do is a blessign..I am also proud to be hawaiian ..and I hope you check out my site and sign my guestbook..I would be honored ....mahalo...Syl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Tom Teale-Sinclair E-mail : ttealesinclair@datec.com.pg Sat Aug 1 06:12 Hi Carol, I have enjoyed your contributions to Wanok Forum recently - my 'alias' is "Concerned Expat". Thank you for your thoughtful and comments and gracious response to my last posting. I enjoyed your website, too. I must get around to doing one, too! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kathy E-mail: posborne@netspace.net.au Wed Jul 22 1998 03:50 I am interested in finding out more information on Henry McGILL who was born in Antrium, Ireland but moved to NZ where he was married to a Alice CAMPBELL in 1874. I do not know what year he arrived in NZ or what year he died. I do know that he changed his surname to MAGILL and had a son called John who was born in Jul 1876 Tortara Flats. I would be grateful of any assistance. Kathy Posted new info on Genanz Newsgroup 6 July 1998 & transferred to NZ Message Board on 13 August 1998. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Maringi E-mail: mjoe@xtra.cp.nz Tue Jul 21 1998 11:28 I"ve woken up early so went online for something to do. It was nice visiting your site. You have a friendly style. Thanks for all the information, both at your http and stuff that lead off it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Noaia Ranguimarie E-mail: Noaia@hotmail.com Sun Jul 19 1998 18:22 Kia ora Carol!!! Kia mihi atu kia koe!! Wow!! what a page!! What have they got in that water in Whanganui ? LOLOL I have really enjoyed viewing your page. Its given me a few ideas on how to make mine. But i think mine will be more pakaru than yours!! LOL Ka kite ano!! Noaia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Paretutaki Hayward B.Soc Sci (History) E-mail: pphayward@hotmail.com URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/3943/ Wed Jul 15 1998 02:42 Tena hoki koe e taku whanaunga, Nga mihi atu ki a koe, ki to whanau hoki me to whare tangata ke. Ko Paretutaki Hayward ahau Ko Pirongia te Maunga Ko Waipa te Awa Ko Mahanga te Tangata Ko Heruika taku Matua-Tupuna I was amazed to see your whakapapa, when I saw that you were a Kereama. I have your whakapapa in my possession, and it will form part of my thesis, your whakapapa is also mine. Heruika's hapu was NGATI WHARE and his mother's hapu was NGATI TONGANUI, these are both hapu of NGATI MAHANGA. Rangihaeremate and Matawhakahore (just 'whakahore' in your whakapapa) were his sisters. I knew about Kereama and knew that he was a Pakeha, but I didn't know his full name until I read your whakapapa. There is a link on my homepage to my thesis. It is still in construction, well the chapters that is. In due course I will be placing all the whakapapa that I have in my website, but that is some months away. Anyway, just thought that I'd let you know that we were whanaunga... (and that Te Heruika was not Ngati Hourua). Our relations at Whatawhata refer to themselves as Ngati Mahanga-Hourua, because Ngati Hourua was their specific hapuu. Ngati Hourua is a name alluded mainly to the descendants of the Kupapa chief Wi Neera Te Awaitaia. Heruika was closely alligned to him, being a Kupapa also. And a policeman at one stage (in the Ngati Mahanga runanga), I'm told that he was accused of stealing cattle and later sacked. He spent the later parts of his life as a gum-digger. Kia kaha ki tou mahi, Noho ora mai, Na Paretutaki --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Chana aka © Realm of Lady Hera E-mail: chana@hera-creations.co.nz URL: http://www.hera-creations.co.nz Tue Jul 14 1998 01:10 Dear Carol I have enjoyed my visit to your wonderful home on the web this evening It is so great to see more of our Wahine on the WWW and the talent and creativity that springs forth certainly brings great pride to my maori heart Your special home is full of Aroha and I know you have spent many hours making it just just so right I will back often to check on you and watch you grow Thankyou for sharing your special place with us all Arohanui & *** Hugs *** Chana Aspire to the greatest heights Should you bow be it to a lofty Mountain". --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ross Griffiths url: http://www.bigfoot.com/rossgriff 12 Jul 98 I'm trying to find a way to search family history on the internet and would appreciate any help i can get thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Phil Lascelles E-mail: phil@medal.net Site Title: Orders, Decorations & Medals url: http://www.medal.net 7 Jul 98 10:48:03 Hi Carol I have enjoyed your site - its a great NZ resource. Keep it up. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Toni E-mail: bradleyjames@xtra.co.nz Mon Jul 6 1998 04:37 Dear Carol, can you help me? I am trying to locate any relatives with the surname of WITANA originally of Pungaru and Hokianga ie. top of the North Island. I have tried everything and just about at the end of the road please email me if you have any suggestions. Posted new info on Genanz Newsgroup 6 July 1998 & transferred to NZ Message Board on 13 August 1998. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Rex Evans E-mail: evagean@iconz.co.nz URL: http://www.webnz.co.nz/evagean Fri Jul 3 1998 11:40 Have just spent a fascinating half hour wandering through your whakapapa and noted your connection to the KEREAMA family. A couple of years ago I published a book on the McKAY and JOY (or JOYCE) families and one line was that of Hera Waitauhi JOY (d. 1938) who married Te Ngako KEREAMA. Their descendants seem to be mainly in the lower central North Island. Would be interested to exchange information on this line with you. We are looking for a Maori genealogist to join our publishing network. If you are interested, visit our website for further information, or contact us by email. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: John Donaldson E-mail : jd@tallships.istar.ca Thu Jul 2 1998 17:34 I note that you have DONALDSON from Dunedin listed in the family tree. Part of my family moved to Dunedin from Scotland after having travelled first to Nova Scotia, Canada. In particular, I have three brothers, Robert, John, and George DONALDSON who arrived in Dunedin in December, 1861 from the Australian goldfields. I do have an almost complete family tree of Robert DONALDSON, compiled by Clifford DONALDSON, who currently resides in Dunedin, but there is little or no record that I am aware of, of what happened to John and George. I would be most interested in corresponding and exchanging information with regard to any information you may have connected to the DONALDSON surname. Posted on Genanz Newsgroup 6 July 1998 & transferred to NZ Message Board on 12 August 1998. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Kinny E-mail: ladymuck@hotmail.com URL: http://members.tripod.com/~ladymuck/ladymuck.html Wed Jul 1 1998 04:18 Kia Ora and, thank you for coming to visit me and signing my book. I've enjoyed looking in on you and your whakapapa. This is a friend, also in Auckland, you might want to stop in on. She's a real sweetie and, also a maori. This is her link. *smiles* Have a great day...still looking at other links in your page. Ka kite. {{{Hugs}}} --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Putiputi E-mail: ngeru@ihug.co.nz URL: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/3528/index.htm Tue Jun 30 1998 04:22 Kia Ora Just popped in to see you cause you popped in to see me. I live in Manurewa. Anyway I thought I'd go look at your site after I signed your book cause I might get lost somewhere.I like looking for Maori sites as well but I can't find many.I'm learning more about this homepage stuff every day. Ka kite ano --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Steve E-mail:falconride@hotmail.com Page name:MyLynx URL: http://members.wbs.net/homepages/m/y/l/mylynx.html 29 June 1998 07:45 Hi Carol, Thanks. I've really enjoyed my visit and this is what I've been looking for, for ages. It's great to see so much about NZ and Maori. We need more of these. Keep up the good work. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Richard Creasy E-mail:carling@enternet.co.nz 28 June 1998 09:31 I am writing my Webwatch column for Rainbow News magazine and have just located your site. It looks great. Would you like to give me some background information about your site and your reasons for setting it up and I'll include some info about you and yo r site in my column. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Tony K 26 June 1998 08:54 Hi Carol, nice homepage, however I only have 8 megs of RAM so my machine is slow - coupled with all the advertising applets and/or java scripts it takes 5 minutes to download your first page, and even longer to get to your guest book. I assume you must make money from all the advertising so I guess they are a necessary evil. I shall visit again when I have more time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hone T URL: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bleachers/7493/metal.html 19 June 1998 00:13 Did you do the word graphics yourself? Very good stuff. I am doing more pages at: http://geocities.com/TheTropics/Paradise/1859 - but not finish yet. Under constr. Ka kite. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hone T Page name:Metallica Metal Page URL: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Bleachers/7493/metal.html 19 June 1998 00:08 Good shit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: John Kuru (A.K.A. VL) E-mail:johnkuru@iname.com Page name:Demon Prince in search of A BirthRight URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/8841 17 June 1998 16:19 Just returning your guestbook entry on my page. I seem to be getting a bit of attention from Australia/NZ; any idea why? I'm in the northeastern United States, by the way. - JK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Myst Page name:Myst Art URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/8841 23 May 1998 2:26 Thanks for signing my guestbook. I love your clip art! I noticed your paper crane icon and remembered that I myself am quite good at Origami. I may post some of my creations at my webpage. Please visit again. Myst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------