If you have New Zealand ancestors, cancel any plans that you had this weekend as you’re in for a weekend-long genealogy-fest. You can thank Ancestry.com.au for that, as they are offering FREE ACCESS to their entire New Zeleand collection from Friday 16th May 2014, until Monday 19th May 2014.
With 30 million historical records online relating to New Zealand, Ancestry.com.au’s collection is the largest one online. There’s no doubt people moved between Australia and New Zealand regularly – even in the past. So if you have ‘lost’ and Australian ancestor … why not check out the New Zealand records, and you simply ‘just never know’.
As with all Ancestry Free offers you do need to have an account. So to view these records you will need to register for free with Ancestry.com.au with your name and email address. They will then send you a user name and password enabling you to access the records. After the free access period ends, you will only be able to view the records in the featured New Zealand collections using an Ancestry.com.au paid membership.
Access to the records in the featured New Zealand collections will be free until 11:59 p.m. 19 May 2014 NZST.
| COMPLETE LISTING OF NEW ZEALAND RECORDS – FREE THIS WEEKEND | ||
| New Zealand Census & Voter Lists | ||
| New Zealand, Electoral Rolls, 1853-1981 | Free | 20,839,231 |
| New Zealand, Maori Voter and Electoral Rolls, 1908 & 1919 | Free | 35,105 |
| Canterbury, New Zealand, Provincial Rolls, 1868-1874 | Free | 24,024 |
| New Zealand Birth, Marriage & Death | ||
| New Zealand Birth Index, 1840-1950 | Free | 2,250,215 |
| New Zealand, Death Index, 1848-1980 | Free | 1,507,722 |
| New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1950 | Free | 1,402,153 |
| Web: Australia and New Zealand, Rootsweb Death Index, 1813-2003 | Free | 425,941 |
| Australia and New Zealand Obituary Collection | Free | 242,908 |
| New Zealand Military | ||
| Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F., 1916-1919 Free | Free | 1,467 |
| New Zealand Army Medal Rolls, 1860-1919 Free | Free | 7,765 |
| New Zealand WWI Military Defaulters, 1919-1921 Free | Free | 2,484 |
| New Zealand Army WWI Reserve Rolls, 1916-1917 | Free | 179,188 |
| New Zealand Army WWII Nominal Rolls, 1939-1948 | Free | 124,535 |
| New Zealand Army WWI Nominal Rolls, 1914-1918 | Free | 100,721 |
| New Zealand Army WWI Casualty Lists, 1914-1919 | Free | 61,475 |
| New Zealand Army WWI Roll of Honour, 1914-1919 | Free | 18,165 |
| New Zealand Immigration & Travel | ||
| New Zealand, Naturalisations, 1843-1981 | Free | 138,485 |
| New Zealand, Registered Ships & Owners, 1840-1950 | Free | 0 |
| New Zealand, White Wings, 1924, 1928 (Volumes 1 & 2) | Free | 0 |
| New Zealand Schools, Directories & Church Histories | ||
| New Zealand, City & Area Directories, 1866-1954 | Free | 7,947,934 |
| New Zealand, Registers of Medical Practitioners and Nurses, 1873, 1882-1933 | Free | 112,993 |
| The Rise and Progress of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand | Free | 282 |
| Ancestors of Welding Ring and His Wife Ida Malvina Mailler | Free | 206 |
| The Pedigrees of Lloyd of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire; The Wordsworth Family; Foster, late of Le Court, Hants; Hanbury of Holfield Grange, Essex; Wakefield of Sedgwick House, Kendal; and Wakefield of New Zealand and So. Australia | Free | 27 |
| New Zealand Convict, Criminal, Land & Wills | ||
| New Zealand, Notices of Deceased Estates, 1880-1950 | Free | 83,202 |
| New Zealand, Jury Lists, 1842-1862 | Free | 47,211 |
| New Zealand, Maori Land Claims, 1858-1980 | Free | 2,347 |
| New Zealand Reference, Dictionaries & Almanacs | ||
| The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, 1897-1906 (Volumes 1-6) | Free | 0 |
| New Zealand, Auckland, Chapman’s Gazetteer, 1867 | Free | 0 |
| New Zealand Stories, Memories & Histories | ||
| New Zealand Index, 1899, 1908, 1915 & 1939 | Free | 0 |
| Early History of New Zealand, From Earliest Times To 1845 | Free | 0 |
| The Defenders of New Zealand | Free | 329 |
| Principal Women of The Empire: Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 1 | Free | 120 |
| Datus, A Chronology of New Zealand from the Time of the Moa, 1931 | Free | 0 |
| New Zealand, Settlement of Otago, 1898 Free | Free | 207 |
have had little interest in finding relations just seems to hard