Napier City Council
The online database search includes the following cemeteries: Eskdale,Western Hills and Wharerangi. This ongoing project is currently working on Taradale cemetery with Park Island and Napier Hill cemeteries to follow.
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
Helping you trace your family history in Australia and elsewhere
New Zealand
Otorohanga District Council
The online database search includes the following cemeteries: Kawhia and Otorohanga.
The University of Waikato – Library – British Parliamentary Papers Colonies: New Zealand
This collection contains digitised despatches and reports relating to New Zealand from selected volumes of the British Parliamentary Papers. This ongoing project currently has 22 documents covering the 1830s to the 1870s.
Hutt City Cemeteries Online
This online database covers Taita Cemetery (new/lawn section) and Wainuiomata Garden of Remembrance. There is an online contact for information on records from the Old Section of Taita Cemetery.
Opotiki Cemeteries
The online search covers the Opotiki Public Cemetery, the Old Military Cemetery and the Woodlands Cemetery. A search returns surname, given name and death date.
Buller District Council
There is an online cemetery search available to the following cemeteries: Orowaiti, Mokihinui, Reefton Suburban, Boatmans, and Karamea (currently not online). Closed cemeteries include: Middle Orowaiti, Old Orowaiti, Old Reefton, Waimangaroa, Charleston, Inangahua, Addisons Flat and Lyell (currently not online).
Gravestone Photographic Resource
Gravestone Photographic Resource (GPR) aims to photograph grave monuments worldwide and to extract all legible personal information (name, age, date of birth, date of death, relationship) from each image and make it freely available online. Currently there are 1,206,377+ names…
Findmypast – Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
The National Archives (UK) Outward Passenger Lists for voyages departing the British Isles 1890-1960 (BT27) for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and USA detail 24 million+ records. The database covers many arrivals into Australia that are still unindexed…
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection (NZETC) of Victoria University of Wellington provides open access to significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials. The collection contains over 1,600 texts which are available in several formats including Epub, PDF,…
Wellington City Council – Database Search
The Council’s cemetery and crematorium records can be viewed online from the following dates to present day for:• Bolton Street Cemetery – from 1840• Karori Cemetery – from 1891• Makara Cemetery – from 1965• Tawa Flat Cemetery 1861-1978