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Helenw52
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NZ Herald 10 January 2006 - Website tracks ancestors' journeys to NZ.
New Zealand family-tree fanatics whose ancestors emigrated from Britain by ship are able to look up their relatives' life-changing journeys on the internet from today.
Details of some 30 million passengers who sailed out of Britain between 1890 and 1960 to destinations like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, North America and India are being made available online at the www.ancestorsonboard.com website.
The 1.5 million pages of passenger lists were previously only available at The National Archives in Kew, London.
The move should spark interest among family tree researchers, who are growing in number thanks to a series of historical archives being opened to the public in the internet.
In particular, the database holds records from the period of mass emigration before the First World War.
An estimated 125,000 British people emigrated to the United States, 50,000 to Canada and 25,000 to Australia every year between 1890 and 1914.
"The availability of the passenger lists from ships that left British ports in this period is an invaluable tool for people tracing relatives they believe may have left the UK during this period," said Elaine Collins, commercial director of family history website findmypast.com which developed the database.
"The passenger records may well provide a missing link for many genealogists who have hit a brick wall in their research, as well as helping those outside of the UK to trace back to their British heritage."
The 1890 to 1900 records go online from today, with the subsequent decades to follow over the next six months.
Images of the passenger lists will be available to view, download, save and print.
As well as the names, departure dates and destinations of each passenger, the records may also include their address, age, marital status and occupation.
"We hope that digitisation will open up a hugely valuable resource for genealogists and social historians all over the world," said Dan Jones, head of business development at The National Archives.
"The archives in Kew are stored chronologically and there are 1.5 million records to plough through. If you weren't sure of the year it made it difficult to find people," a findmypast.com spokeswoman said.
"Online you can easily search for example by name or ship."
The passenger lists could shed new light on social trends.
"There are war brides and babies from the First World War, soldiers who returned to Canada with English and Scottish wives," the spokeswoman said.
The records also show British playwright Noel Coward travelling to New York -- not to mention the passenger list of the ill-fated Titanic, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912.
- AFP
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New Zealands Roll of Honour
http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/l.rwilloughby/index.html
Hello and welcome to New Zealand's Roll of Honour. My name is Leigh, I am the webmaster. Due to the exorbitant cost put on by the New Zealand Government, to obtain New Zealand military files I would like people who are willing to Adopt a Soldier, please choose one of the many that are already listed and just let me know which one it is by emailing me here please don't do ones that are already completed, those that are completed include when and where born and next of kin.
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A BDM or BMD index of the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper notices for births (registration required), deaths, marriages, anniversaries, and in memoriam published daily since 1999, for the purposes of genealogy and family research.
It now includes Wanganui and Taranaki newspapers and some school magazines & shipping.
Search Otago notices at www.odt.co.nz
Search Auckland notices at www.nzherald.co.nz - up to 14 days prior to today.
Go to www.taranakiwiki.com for all things about Taranaki.
Search Palmerston North and Manawatu notices at Palmerston North Library
http://www.genealogy-index.co.nz/go_search/
Deaths
Marriages
Anniversaries
In Memoriam
School Records
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http://www.looking4kin.com/gennz.htm
New Zealand
Genealogy Links & Chat
A Home away from 'Home' / Ailsa's NZ Web Pages / All Genealogy Sites Directory / Ancestry.com / Archives New Zealand AUSNZ Passenger Lists
Australian and New Zealand Records / Births Deaths & Marriages
Denise & Peter's Our Stuff / Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
Early Settlers to Onehunga / Family History Centers in New Zealand
Family History Library Catalog - New Zealand / Find Your New Zealand Ancestors / Genealogy Chat Room / Genealogy.com Genealogy Hunt
Genealogy Index /Genealogylinks.net /Genealogy - Our Family Trees
Helens' Page of New Zealand History / List of New Zealand's Irish Immigrants
New Zealand & Maori Genealogy /New Zealand Bound / New Zealand Cemetery Records /New Zealand Genealogy Message Board / New Zealand Genealogy Research Made Easy / New Zealand Genealogy Sites Online
New Zealand Genealogy Search Engine /New ZealandGenWeb / New Zealand links.... New Zealand Mailing Lists / New Zealand Map & Placename Index
New Zealand Post / New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc.
New Zealand White Pages / New Zealand Yesteryears / NZ Genealogical Links / NZ Marriage Witness Indexes Search Form /Passenger Lists to New Zealand /Passenger Lists, NZ and Australia 1800's/ Pearl's Pad
Phonenumbers.net /Pioneers in New Zealand / Presbyterian Church Archives of Aotearoa New Zealand / Pycroft Home at Voyager
South Taranaki District Council Online Services / Surname Search - Message Boards @ Genealogy.com / Victory List / Waikumete Cemetery
Whakapapa Maori (Maori Genealogy)
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Auckland Central Library Research Centre has the Order Books for C Little & Sons Ltd (Funeral Directors) 1901 to 1936. The cards are viewable in the Research Room. Once you have the volume no and page no, go across to the special collections area and they will get the book. Useful information about DOD, Date of funeral, where buried, who the account went to, age at death, children, spouse, last residential address, where died, cost of the service etc
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Yes I agree about the shocking cost... few year ago I requested the military file of 2 rellies from WW1 and Archives charge me only 15$ for both files (very consistant) photocopied and asked to pay only after I received it... Now the cost jump up to 25$ per surname search.. that's crazy....
Good initiative of you...
New Zealands Roll of Honour http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/l.rwilloughby/index.htmlHello and welcome to New Zealand's Roll of Honour. My name is Leigh, I am the webmaster. Due to the exorbitant cost put on by the New Zealand Government, to obtain New Zealand military files I would like people who are willing to Adopt a Soldier, please choose one of the many that are already listed and just let me know which one it is by emailing me here please don't do ones that are already completed, those that are completed include when and where born and next of kin. |
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GILLIES (ROC/Applecross/..);
MACDONALD (ROC/Applecross/..);
MACDONALD (INV/../..);
MACRAE (ROC/Duirinish, Lochalsh/..);
MCKENZIE (ROC/Applecross (Milton)/..);
MCLENNAN (ROC/Applecross/..);
MCLEOD (ROC/Applecross/..);
MOFFAT CUL/Alston, Penrith/..);
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Hi
Please tell me how to log onto this site so I can gain access to this great amount of information. I am searching for several families who were in NZ or who have new generations living there.
Looking for Dorn, lewis, Meyers, Lazarus
John Meyers
NSW Australia
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Meyers, Lewis, lazarus, Dorn, Gardner, Mooney, Woods and Williams
Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, England, Wales, Jersey
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