A. Ask your family
Where was our family in World War One? What were we doing?
Did anyone fight?
Have you got any photos relating to our family and World War One?
Where was our family in World War One? What were we doing?
Did anyone fight?
Have you got any photos relating to our family and World War One?
B. National archives: archway.archives.govt.nz/
Click on the advanced search button and go to records.
In the keywords search insert the name of the person you are looking for.
Scroll down and in the Agency Box insert AABK, and in the series box insert 18805,
Then click on search. It will say whether the record has been digitised.
Non-digitised records are at the national Archives in Mulgrave Street.
NOTE: the digitised records may be from microfilm and so the quality isn't fantastic. The original records may be restricted because of conservation concerns, but do contact the National Archives as the records may be on microfilm to view.
C. Papers Past
Newspapers from all over the country are being scanned in and are completely searchable. Although the majority of coverage is 19th century, there is plenty 20th century material. It is a wonderful resource.
D. Local Libraries especially Sylvia
At Porirua library Sylvia Carlisle would be happy to help you. She is responsible for the genealogy collection. They have lots of resources, including access to
Ancestry.com, especially useful if your family wasn't in New Zealand during that period.
Email sacarlyle@gmail.com
Ancestry.com, especially useful if your family wasn't in New Zealand during that period.
Email sacarlyle@gmail.com
E. The Family History Centre at the National Library.
F. NZ Servicewomen WWI - after the war
There was a magazine for NZ nurses called Kai Tiaki. Somebody went through this for the post WWI issues and copied all the news regarding returning nurses - awards, marriages, deaths and so on, and then indexed these extracts.. Some Crows might find it very useful if any of their ancestors were involved in WWI in this way.
G. Church, Clare. New Zealand Graves at Brockenhurst (2002).
93 New Zealand WWI NZEF soldiers are buried at Brockenhurst in Hampshire, UK, and this book contains detailed biographies of all of them.
Part 1 gives a straightforward account of how NZ got involved and the process by which men went from here to the front. There are descriptions of camps in the UK where the men were sent for further training, and a chronology of the theatres of war that we were a part of. Finally a description of the medical care shows how these 93 men ended up at Brockenhurst.
H. 100 government sites:
I. Cenotaph, part of the Auckland Museum.
Database contains the names of people who served in all sorts of wars. Enter names and get summaries of their service, plus photographs. Fantastic search function.
Part 1 gives a straightforward account of how NZ got involved and the process by which men went from here to the front. There are descriptions of camps in the UK where the men were sent for further training, and a chronology of the theatres of war that we were a part of. Finally a description of the medical care shows how these 93 men ended up at Brockenhurst.
H. 100 government sites:
I. Cenotaph, part of the Auckland Museum.
Database contains the names of people who served in all sorts of wars. Enter names and get summaries of their service, plus photographs. Fantastic search function.
J. New Zealand History Online:
No comments:
Post a Comment