Ancestry; New Zealand Databases Search
a large collection of databases including NZ Electoral Rolls 1853-1981,
naturalizations 1843-1981, city & area directories and army nominal
rolls ($)
Archives New Zealand Archives
NZ has over 4 million government records of genealogical value. Unfortunately little is onlne at this point. The vast array of records that can be accessed by going to the institution includes: Citizenship and Naturalisation records 1840-1866, Registers of Notices of Intention to Marry 1856-1956 (Wellington) , Coroners’ Inquests 1840-1988, Divorce Registers (access only to records older than 60 years) ,Anglo-Boer War Personnel 1899-1902, government-assisted immigrants passenger lists 1840-1880s,
Archives Research
Centre of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa (New Zealand) searchable databases of Presbyterian marriage
(1848-1930) and baptisms (1848-1920)
Assisted English immigrants from the 1870's A-L
,
L-Y including age and occupation, indexed from "The Farthest Promised Land" by Professor Rollo Arnold
Australasia Births, Deaths & Marriages Exchange a user contributed database of birth, death and marriage data. free, requires registration to access
Australasia Genealogical
Lookup Exchange - Auckland list of volunteers who
can do free lookups on records they have access to
Births, Deaths and Marriages Online Pre 1875 Maintained by NZ Department of Internal Affairs. records that can be searched includes: Births
that occurred at least 100 years ago, Stillbirths that occurred at least
50 years ago, Marriages that occurred at least 80 years ago, Deaths that
occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at
least 80 years ago.
B,D
& M Transcripts from the "Auckland Weekly News" 1914-15
Boer
War Honours List Extracts from London Gazette 1901 & 1902
Brewers
and Wine & Spirit Merchants in New Zealand 1869 showing the Names and Residences of all Persons registered as Brewers, or Wine and Spirit Merchants
Chinese In New Zealand
a general information blog for Chinese living in New Zealand, including some family histories of Chines new Zealanders
Central
Districts: Church Officers 19th, 20th C
Church
& Missionary List - 1800's
Church
Ministers in the Colony 1848-1849
Christchurch Press and Star of New Zealand Transcriptions 1855 -2000 of births, marriages, deaths, obituaries, inquests, shipping lists from the Christchurch Press and Star of New Zealand
Colonial
Outcasts list of names extracted from book by Nell
Hartley; transcribed by Ted Wildy
DC10
Plane Crash on Mt Erebus, Antartica 1979 names of
20 crew and 237 passengers who were killed in this air disaster
Directory of New Zealand Libraries
Earliest New Zealand Birth
Registrations 1840-1854 searchable database at Cambridgeshire Family History Society
Funeral
Notices 1840s-1860s
Genealogy
Helplist NZ a list of volunteers who do free lookups
of records
GENEoNZ - New Zealand
and Maori Research by Carol Whyte
Goldminers of New Zealand 1861-1868 This site has a searchable database to 20,000+ gold-miners,
many of whom came form Australia
Greta's
Genealogy Pages this site has some early NZ genealogy resources, as well as useful tips for beginners to genealogy
Helen's Page
of New Zealand History a large collection of online
databases for Wellington & Mid to Lower North Island
Hiwinui
Land Register Pre 1910
Irish Immigrants Late 1800s
Land
Records how to order copies of land records, by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), a NZ govt dept
List
of names from the book 'The Deserters' by Rae Sexton - Mid 1800s The New Zealand Wars
National Archives of New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand
holds New Zealand's largest collection of private manuscripts and archives including a family history collection - birth, death and marriage indexes,
cemetery indexes,
directories,
electoral rolls,
military indexes,
probate indexes and
shipping passenger lists
New
Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages Office maintained by NZ Department of Internal Affairs. Records that can be searched includes: Births that occurred at least 100 years ago, Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago, Marriages that occurred at least 80 years ago, Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
New
Zealand Councils and Regions
New
Zealand Directories 1866-1873 includes Wellington, Greymouth, Hokitika, Cobden and Flagstaff townships
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1853-1981 over 20 million names; a valuable census substitute ($)
New Zealand Gazette - Justice's of the Peace 1866 A-M & N-Z over 150 names here; includes name, city and region where they lived
New Zealand Genealogy at FamilySearch.org This site (maintained by the Church of the Latter day Saints, or LDS) is one of the largest genealogy resources available, both online or at any one of their thousands of FamilySearch Centres worldwide. It has over 50 pages of informational pages that explain almot every kind of record that is used in tracing your family history, including electoral rolls, directories, pension records, voting registers, civil registration records, emigration and immigration records and much, much more. This site is a valuable pool of information for both the beginner and experienced genealogy researcher.
New Zealand Genealogy Forum a frequently used forum (when I checked there were postings from 24hrs prior to my visit) where you can browse messages or post one yourself about NZ ancestors you are looking for
New Zealand GenWeb Project maintained by volunteers to provide resources online
New
Zealand Herald: Deaths extracted from the `New Zealand Herald' 1993
(over 20,000 names)
New Zealand Ireland
Connection at University of Otago, includes an immigrant list of Irish to NZ
New Zealand Mailing Lists over 20 mailing lists for NZ covering most topics and regions
New
Zealand Message Boards read and post messages with
other New Zealand researchers
New Zealand Names from Obituaries 1900s extracted from a private collection of New Zealand Newspapers of the day, miscellaneous books and publications
New Zealand Naturalisations
- 1853
New
Zealand Pioneer Roll up to 1899 Discoverers, Visitors, Whalers, Traders and some Early Residents up to 1839
New Zealand Probate Records 1843-1988 browse through over 358,000 images in this collection at FamilySearch.org. An index is available on the Archives of New Zealand website (http://www.archway.archives.govt.nz/) which will give the probate file number associated with a name
New
Zealand Salvation Army... Officers & Roll Of Honour 1891-1910
New Zealand Telephone Directory Online White Pages, Yellow Pages
NZ Electoral
Rolls for Many Cities here over 25 electoral rolls here
NZ Executions
1842-1957 includes name, place of execution, date of execution
NZ Harkness Fellowships
1928-1983
N.Z HERALD
1863: names extracted
NZ
Missionaries 1800s
NZ Rhodes Scholars
1903-1993
Papers Past
- National Library Of New Zealand more than
one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals.
The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 63
publications from all regions of New Zealand
Officiating
Ministers in the Province of New Munster 1848 & 1849
Officiating
Ministers within New Zealand of the Free Church Of Scotland-1854
Our Stuff! Denise
& Peters Homepage over 1,000 passenger lists, electoral rolls and many more transcribed records
Pre
1846 NZ Database Early European Contacts with New Zealand
Scotland;
Biographies of Scots in New Zealand mostly 19thC
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Whatever Australia - New Zealand large genealogy search
engine with listing of NZ genealogy sites
