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Indexing probates

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Indexing probates

An important activity of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists is data entry of valuable genealogical sources. Here members of the society index the records of probates (or wills) at National Archives (later Archives New Zealand) in Auckland in 1989.

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David Swain, Genealogy and family history – Growing interest in genealogy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/27075/indexing-probates (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Swain, published 7 April 2011.