Hello.
As stated above I discussed the coming on line of deeds access with a man on the Archives stand at the Fair. At this time just indexes, but from the information therein, it should make it easier for finding historic deeds of interest, and in association with the new NZSG Land Titles Search facility, open up a whole new field to the general researcher. In the past if you were not familiar with our cadastral system of recording land tenure, it was ever so easy to get lost, and to order a copy of a land title, only to find the one you ordered, was miles away from the one you wanted. Done that several times. Now if you can place the property/building of interest, on a Google map print out, the NZSG service can locate the title history for you. Deed copies remain just a little more difficult to accurately locate.
From a quick look last night it would appear that a good broadband service will help. As explained to me the data in it’s original form is in fairly large files, that take time, though they were hoping to install a programme that would speed things up. BCAT & BAJZ appear to be the Accession box prefixes for Auckland ones.
ATTACHMENTS
#1. The graphic supplied at the Fair illustrating what has been digitized
- and what has to be ordered from, or viewed at, the holding archive.
#2. Part of one of several deed titles I was able to locate, and get copies of some 30 years ago from Lands & Deeds. This particular one is of special interest to me, because I found it through one of the bound indexes, but then my research stalled because, I was unable to find Searborough Terrace off Epson Road Auckland. Just a few years ago while on the Auckland Library site, checking for road name changes, it’s Google search engine asked me a fuzzy logic question “Was I searching for Scarborough Terrace ?”
Some times it pays to be an Aucklander. Had I been, the penny may have dropped !
- Alan