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Auckland War Memorial Museum - Online Cenotaph

Biographical and service details for over 115,000 New Zealand service men and women.

Canterbury Museum - Featured Collection: Macdonald Dictionary

Biographical information on rectangular cards, written by George Ranald Macdonald for the Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biography project, 1952-1964.

ConnectionsNZL: reconnecting NZ families separated by adoption

Information, advice and services to enable New Zealand families separated by adoption to reconnect.

Dictionary of New Zealand Biography

Searchable online database containing over 3,000 biographies of New Zealanders who have 'made their mark' on this country.

Early Onehunga Settlers

A surname index referencing early settlers to Onehunga (including Huia, Cornwallis, Parau, Laingholm, Whatipu, and other Manukau Harbour settlements).

Flying Officer Corran Perry Ashworth

Dedicated to my paternal great-uncle, after whom I am named, who fought and died in WWII.

Helena and James Selwood: Making a new life in New Zealand

This is the story of a young English couple, James Selwood from Buscot Berkshire who married Helena Jeffery from Ottery St Mary Devonshire. They had an 84 day non-stop trip to Port Chalmers in New Zealand in 1876 on the sailing-ship Oamaru. The trip is recorded day by day in two trip diaries. The Selwoods settled in Northern Southland, with 13 years on a high country sheep farm then spent 24 years as publicans.

Macdonald Dictionary - Zooniverse

Help us to transcribe names and supporting information in the G.R. Macdonald Dictionary of Canterbury Biographies. (The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.)

Marking Time with Joanne Warby

I am researching Early WAIRARAPA, New Zealand families. The main areas of interest are Masterton and Carterton. Surnames include PAGE, HOOPER, WINTER, COMPTON, OLIVER, GLOVER, TACON, BANKS, WARBY, EDMEADS to name a few. My website MARKING TIME will eventually show how all these families meet, married and lived within the Wairarapa district and forged a life as earler settlers.

Palmerston North Firemen in the 1800's

Southern People - A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries