Here are some websites that you might find useful for your research:
New Zealand
- NZ Ancestor Search Helper – a search tool designed to assist with NZ-focused genealogical research, by collating results from NZ DIA’s Births, Deaths and Marriages, Archives NZ, dozens of council cemetery websites, military records and many other online history resources
- Archives New Zealand Collections search – find records such as probates, divorce, immigration and World War One army files
- Archives New Zealand Research Resources – guides to help you with your research
- NZ Historical Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Christchurch City Council Archives – the Council records date back to 1862
- Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database
- Beverley Evans’ transcriptions of Christchurch birth, marriage and death notices, shipping lists – plus much more
- Early NZ Settlers
- Cenotaph Database – search for biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women from the 19th century till today and especially from World Wars 1 and 2
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission – commemorating the fallen
- Archives New Zealand, Probate Records 1843-1998 – collection in the process of being digitised for FamilySearch
- Archives New Zealand, Passenger Lists 1839-1973 – collection in the process of being digitised for FamilySearch
- Kerry Farmer’s Family History Research – lots of good links. Look under Courses – New Zealand Genealogy for some very good NZ ones
- Christchurch City Libraries have a wealth of information and a beginner’s guide to researching your family history
- Auckland City Libraries heritage and research
- New Zealand History Online has an extensive list of web links for family history research
- New Zealand Yesteryears – ships, ship photographs, passenger lists, shipboard diaries and more
- Immigrant Ships to NZ 1835-1910
- New Zealand Society of Genealogists
- Ngai Tahu Whakapapa
- Websites of New Zealand Cemeteries – links to cemeteries with online searchable databases
- Genealogy Place Map – database of places in New Zealand of interest to genealogists and historians, including cemeteries, churches, crematoriums, orphanages, memorials and funeral directors
- Land Information New Zealand
- Maori Land Court
- Quotable Value
- The National Library of New Zealand has a very good guide to researching family history
- Papers Past – digitised and indexed New Zealand newspapers and periodicals
- Denise and Peters ‘Our Stuff’ – lots of useful primary sources, digitised and searchable
- Tour Back in Time Through Christchurch – historical aerial imagery gallery from 1925 to 2004
- Comte de Paris Descendants Group – preserving the heritage of the French and German families who landed at Akaroa from the ship Comte de Paris in August 1840
World
- General Register Office (GRO) – order birth, death and marriage certificates for England and Wales
- Trove – The National Library of Australia
- Ryerson Index – free index to death notices appearing in Australian newspapers
- Australian Cemeteries Index
- Cyndi’s List – a comprehensive list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online
- FamilySearch
- Billion Graves – the world’s largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission – register recording details of Commonwealth war dead
- Military Resources
- Free BMD – the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales
- Dustydocs – links to lots of free websites in The British Isles containing parish records
- Dictionary of Old Occupations
Subscription Sites
The following sites are free to search the index, but if you want to view the records you either have to subscribe or pay to view. Ancestry and Find My Past records can be accessed at our Branch Library.
- Ancestry
- Find My Past
- Scotland’s People
- My Heritage – this is a subscription site, but you can access it free if you have a Christchurch City Libraries card and PIN
- The Genealogist