Story: Genealogy and family history

More links and websites

• Archives New Zealand

  The Archives New Zealand site provides an introduction to the family history resources available at the archives.

• Auckland City Libraries

  Auckland City Libraries have an excellent family history section on their site.

• Births, Deaths and Marriages Historical Records

  This site provides information on New Zealand births that occurred at least 100 years ago, marriages at least 80 years ago, and deaths at least 50 years ago.

• Cyndi’s List

  An international site with more than a third of a million genealogical links.

• Digital New Zealand

  Search more than 120 participating New Zealand government and other organisations with resources of interest to family historians.

• FamNet

  This not-for-profit trust-managed local website allows members to upload genealogical and family history information (names, events, dates, places, images, video, audio), with access to living persons’ data limited to those people you give access, and links your historical records (deceased individuals) to other FamNet trees with the same people. Your records remain your property, under your control, unlike some worldwide commercial genealogical websites. There is full subscriber-level access to FamNet at LDS Family History Centres.

• Family Search

  Free Latter Day Saints (Mormon) website with a very large set of linked family trees you can search to access data on ancestors which has been entered by others.

• Family Tree

  Guide to 50 free and subscription websites for genealogy and family history, compiled by a British genealogy and family history magazine.

• Genealogy links

  A list of family history research websites on NZHistory. 

• Genes Reunited

  This very large UK site allows users to find their ancestors in family trees compiled by others.

• Lost Cousins

  This website matches the British, Irish, Canadian and US census data you enter for your relatives with others who have entered the same census data in the online family trees – ‘automatically, accurately & confidentially’. It publishes fortnightly newsletters.

• New Zealand Maritime Index

  This is a searchable index of ships, organisations, subjects and individuals in a set of publications indexed by the New Zealand Maritime Museum.

• New Zealand Passenger Lists

  This section of the Archives New Zealand website provides passenger lists for ships which came to New Zealand.

• New Zealand Related Genealogy Sites Online

  This site provides a set of links to relevant New Zealand genealogical databases.

• New Zealand Society of Genealogists

  This site introduces the work of the society and provides some suggestions for genealogical research.

• PapersPast

  Papers Past is a searchable database of more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals 1840 to 1948.

More suggestions and sources

• Bromell, Anne. New Zealand beginner’s guide to family history research. Auckland: Whitcoulls, 2004.

• Bromell, Anne. Tracing family history overseas from New Zealand. Auckland: Godwit, 1997.

• Huber, Leslie Albrecht. 'Getting Started with Family History (By Starting at the Beginning).' FamilySearch Blog, 12 January 2017: https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/started-family-history-starting-beginning/

• Rosier-Jones, Joan. Writing your family history: a New Zealand guide. Auckland: Random House, 2005.

• Terrington, J. 'How to start doing your family history.' Family Tree 34, no. 7 (2018): 60-63.

• Tovey, H. 'Start your family history in 7 easy steps.' Family Tree 33, no. 12 (2017): 28-31.