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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