An online finding aid to archives dating back to the early 1800's to the recent past including immigration and citizenship records, land registrations and much more.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names including: Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites. Patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free account or to sign into their existing account to continue using all the free expanded benefits.
New Zealand Government website providing online indexes to the following: * Births up to 100 years ago * Still births up to 50 years ago * Marriages up to 80 years ago * Deaths up to 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago The date coverage of NZ BDM fiche indexes held in the Family History Service are different: 1840-1990 Births, 1848-1990 Deaths, 1840-1990 Marriages, 1911-1960 Maori BDM. Furthermore, the NZ BDM certificate numbers used on the online index are different to the numbers used on the fiche indexes held in the Family History Service. When ordering online certificates there is an option to order a birth certificate or a birth printout. A printout will give the best genealogical details (but cannot be used for legal purposes). The certificate has less information on it.
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The Blue Books detailed statistical information from New Zealands early Colonial period (1840-1855). They contain information about population, revenue, military, trade, shipping, public works, legislation, civil servants, foreign consuls, land transactions, churches, schools, and prisons.
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Online access to digitised newspapers at the National Library of New Zealand. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1920 and includes publications from all regions of New Zealand.The range of periodicals and the number of pages available will increase as the project develops.
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A partial index of ships arriving in NSW (1837-1899), Queensland (1840-1915), Victoria (1837-1899), South Australia (1836-1860), Western Australia (1829-1889)and New Zealand (1839-1905). Includes convict transports (1788-1868). Produced by Margaret Bauer and Nancy Campbell.
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