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In 1876 the ship Gutenberg arrived in Wellington, New Zealand with 165 European assisted immigrants. What became of these people and their descendants? From Bremerhaven to Wellington fills the gaps and offers information about most of these people and their early descendants in Aotearoa New Zealand. Read about their joys and sorrows, their accomplishments and failures, shed a tear and marvel about how human importunity so often is the seed of opportunity to achieve great things.

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I had an 'aha' moment as a teenager when Alec Wallace told me stories about my great grandparents Theresia and Carl Alve in a way that made their lives come alive. I never knew my tupuna, but the influence of that conversation has driven me to make exploring my family's genealogy and history a life-long quest. In 1994 I wrote, 'Alve Road: How do you spell that?' which chronicled what I knew of the history of the Alve family in Germany and, the better-known history of the family in New Zealand. As part of this work, I wrote over 120 brief biographies of the first four generations of the family, beginning with my forbears Carl Wilhelm and Maria Theresia Alve who emigrated from Germany to New Zealand in 1875-76. During 2023-24 I returned to dig more deeply into the lives of Carl and Theresia. In 'Valentine's Day 1874' I tell their story in more depth noting that they married together with nine other couples in Gelsenkirchen on that Valentine's day. This story ends with Carl's death in 1910. My writing and presentation skills have been enhanced through my work as a website designer and developer. I am also a self-taught genealogist and family history researcher. I use a variety of internet resources to further this work, including the MyHeritage online genealogy platform and the www.alve.nz website.

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