Genealogy Collection & Microforms Ngā Kohikohinga Whakapapa me Ngā Kiriata Mōroiti
The Genealogy Collection is located upstairs at Hastings Library and includes:
Microfiche, microfilms (listed below), including New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages to 1990
Hawke's Bay newspapers on microfilm
Genealogy reference books
Local telephone directories
Journals (many donated - thanks for this!)
Electoral rolls for NZ on microfiche and in print
Available for free use on our Research Computers are:
Ancestry Library Edition
New Zealand Gazette Archives (one PC only)
Papers Past - historic New Zealand newspapers online - now searchable
Findmypast - discover your family history
Aliens Naturalised in NZ: 1843 – 1916 (2 fiche)
Aotearoa he nupepa 1892: ma nga tangata moon (Napier), June 1892 (1) [film]
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1861 – 1873: a partial index (12)
Auckland Marriages from 1848. Vol.1 (2)
Auckland Provincial Highway Districts Assessment Rolls 1863 – 1870 (14)
Bankruptcies in Canterbury NZ 1863-1880 (4)
Bankruptcies in NZ 1881-1940 (9)
Biographies Index (Alexander Turnbull Library) (271)
British Isles Genealogical Register 1994 (27)
Canterbury death duties register index 1867 – 1914 (3)
Compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island (McKay) (10) + Index (4)
Cornwall Family History Society directory (2)
Datus: a chronology of NZ: c.925 – 1910 (2)
Deceased estates “NZ Gazette” 1866 – 1900 (5)
Deceased persons’ estates, Canterbury: 1887 – 1914 (3)
Discharged in NZ (2)
Early NZ by Sherrin & Wallace (6)
Early Wellington Newspapers 1839 – 1865 (Alexander Turnbull Library) (22)
Fencible settlements land grants: Howick, Onehunga, Otahuhu, Panmure (2)
Fielding Star 1882 – 1909: extracts of births, deaths, marriages (5)
Fielding Star 1910 – 1922: extracts of births, deaths, marriages (4)
Hastings Standard 1896 – 1910 [m film]
Hawera Star 1880 – 1982: transcripts of births (6)
Hawkes Bay Tribune 1910 – 1937 [m film]
Hawkes Bay Herald 1925 [m film]
Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune 1937–1999 [m film]
Hawkes Bay Today 1999 – (ongoing) [m film]
IGI: International Genealogical Index: records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials
Imperial regiments in New Zealand
HAP 1856 – 1864 Officer Service records [Harts] (1)
In Search of Forlorn Hope: a comprehensive guide to locating British regiments and their records (1640 - WWI) by John H Kitzmitter (3)
Index to Maori names (2) [film]
Index to sacramental register for RC Parish of Coromandel (1)
Index to sacramental register for St Benedicts church, Auckland (2)
Index to sacramental register for Thames parish, Thames (1)
Index to the Catholic Registers of Te Aroha Parish (1)
Index to the Catholic Registers of the Ponsonby Parish (2)
Index to the Catholic Registers of the Pukekohe Parish (1)
Intestate Estates, NZ Gazette 1843 – 1869 (1)
London marriage licences and allegations 1521 – 1869 (9)
Lyttleton Times 1851 – 1865: extracts of birth and death notices (2)
Lyttleton Times: marriage notices 1851 – 1880 (3)
Machinery accidents 1879 – 1919: an index reported to the AJHR (1)
Maori land claims in AJHR and the Legislative Council 1855 – 1955 (3)
Masters, mates and engineers 1866-1921 (4)
McKirdy index : Bute 1855 – 1875: (the statutory death registers of Scotland) (5)
McKirdy index: County of Clackmannan 1855 – 1875 (5)
McKirdy index: Kinross deaths 1855 –1875 (2)
Mining accidents 1870 – 1958 (2)
Niupepa 1842 – 1933 (Maori Language Newspapers)
NZ Biographical Clippings 1890 – 1988 (Alexander Turnbull Library) (1063)
NZ Births 1840 – 1990
NZ Cemetery Records
HAP - (1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, Supplements) (845)
NAP - (1995, 1997, 1998)
NZ Contingents to South African War 1900 – 1902 Nominal Rolls; 1903 Casualty List (4)
NZ Deaths 1848 – 1990
NZ Electoral Rolls (see also Ancestry databases - searchable historic electoral rolls)
NZ Expeditionary Force 1914 – 1918 (51)
NZ Expeditionary Force 1939 – 1945, Nominal Rolls (29)
NZ Expeditionary Force Casualties WWI (16)
NZ Expeditionary Force First Reserve & Military Defaulters – WWI (10)
NZ Expeditionary Force Vol. 1: Index (5)
NZ Herald anniversary and death notices 1934-1970 (83) + index (10)
NZ Index Annual 1899 (4)
NZ Jury Lists 1842 – 1863 (5)
NZ Listener 1939 – 1987: index only (Alexander Turnbull Library) (39)
NZ Mail 1871 – 1907: index (Alexander Turnbull Library) (54)
NZ Māori Births 1911 – 1961 (21)
NZ Māori Deaths 1911 – 1961 (6)
NZ Māori Marriages 1911 – 1952 (3)
NZ Marriages 1840 – 1990
NZ patents 1860 – 1890: an index to applications by NZ residents (1)
NZ patents 1891 – 1912: an index to applications by NZ residents (5)
NZ probates pre-1900 (3)
NZ public school teachers 1907 (2)
NZ registered ships 1840 – 1950 — ships, owners, builders and masters (7)
NZ river drownings
HAP 1840-1887 & drownings in the Avon River 1840 – 1887(1)
NAP 1850-1900 Avon River
NZ Shipping Company Register 1875 – 1893 (4)
NZ War Deaths 1914 – 1918 (9)
NZ war Deaths 1939 – 1945 (6)
Officiating ministers in NZ 1848 – 1900 (4)
Old colonists’ jubilee re-union Auckland, NZ: 1842 – 1892 (1)
Otago settlers pre 1861: Val Maxwell Index (3)
Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1852 – 1860: part 1 (3)
Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1861 – 1865: part 2 (11)
Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1886 – 1870: part 3 (9)
Patrick Henderson Shipping Company lists 1871 – 1880 (3)
Persons granted NZ citizenship 1949 – 1968 (7)
Persons naturalised in NZ pre-1948 (6)
Port of Wellington entry 1856 – 1887, passenger and ship index (8)
Province of Canterbury, NZ: list of sections purchased to 30 April 1863 (2)
Public Service appointments 1912 – 1927 (2)
Public Trust deceased estates, Canterbury 1901 – 1958 (9)
Return of Owners of Land 1873 Gloucestershire (1)
Return of Owners of Land 1873 Oxfordshire (1)
Return of the Freeholders of NZ [Oct 1882] (13)
Roll of honour, 1840-1902: defenders of the empire resident in New Zealand (1)
Royal Irish Constabulary index: Part 1: 1816 – 1822 (7); Part 2: 1882 – 1921 (7)
Sheep owners returns 1880, 1890, 1900 (3)
Shipboard Accounts for Voyages to NZ 1840 – 1900 (2)
Shipping to New Plymouth, NZ Arrivals, Departures: 1852 – 1880 (9)
Shipping to NZ 1839 – 1889, Comber Index: chronological order of departure, ships, and Captains (7)
South Island Presbyterian Church records [Knox College Library Archives] (1)
St Catherine's Birth Index 1837 – 1900 [fiche & film]
Suffolk Family History Society 1991, 1992, 1993 handbooks (3)
Taranaki Crown grants: an index to land records (5)
Taranaki Herald 1852-1880: Births, marriages, deaths (4)
Tasmanian pioneers index (30)
Te Wananga (Napier) 1874 – 1878 (3) [film]
Turton’s land deeds 1877 – 1883, 6 parts (39)
Wills at Lands and Deeds, Wellington (1)
Wise’s New Zealand index 1908 (4)
Witnesses who gave evidence to commissions and committees 1858 – 1935 (4)
Women named in the ‘Cyclopedia of New Zealand’ (4)
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