Where did you come from?

Okay, well, what we are going to do is just go into the home page of Te Ara, and what we suggest is then, that people click on to a little heading that says New Zealanders (which we will do right this very minute) and that will take you to this page with a sort of a bit of a moving world up here. And what we have is a couple of options up here. If you are interested in the story about Māori New Zealanders you can press here, and if you are interested in…about non-Māori New Zealanders, all the other people that settled New Zealand – New Zealand of course, is a country of immigrants – you can press on that part, and what then what happens is, you get up, and you find you’ve got a map of the world.

And what we can then do is choose almost any place in the world, because New Zealand has probably been settled by people from about 80 to 90 countries. If you press in the Pacific area for example, you find all these stories about the Samoans, Tokelauans, Fijians, Tongans and so forth. If you press in this one which is the British Isles, where I would say a large proportion of people living in New Zealand now, their ancestors originally came from, they came from four different areas, from Scotland up the top here, from England down here, from Wales. Actually very few people here in New Zealand are descended from people who came from Wales, but there are a lot that came in from Ireland, this little island off to the west of Britain.