Online Heritage Resources

A listing of general New Zealand heritage resources. See Nelson online resources, for more sites which are specific to the Nelson region, and our research guide to Central and Local Government resources for official information.

• Ancestry Library Edition (access in the Libraries only)
  Trace your family history across more than 1.5 billion names from over 4,000 collections. See New Zealand content.
• Archives New Zealand
  The "keeper of the Public Record - the memory of government". This site explains their services, publications and holdings, indexes and provides some full-text access to their collections.
• Bloodline
  Directory of local resources for genealogists
• Digital NZ
  Resource site for NZ digital content and creation.
• Heritage New Zealand- Information about preserving the nation's heritage, the (searchable) national List of Heritage Places and Digital Library of Archaeological sites.
• Kura Heritage Collections online - Auckland City Libraries.
  Photographs, maps, manuscripts, passengers and cemetery lists (some Nelson documents and maps).
• National Library of New Zealand
  Explore all the collections, including the Alexander Turnbull Library
• Nelson Cemeteries Database - see also Tasman District Council Cemeteries
• Nelson Photo News
  A pictorial record of Nelson life 1960-1972.
• Nelson Provincial Museum and its Collections Online.
• New Zealand Electronic Text Centre [NZETC] - see Waireto
  A free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage publications. Includes Nelson Historical Society Journal
• NZ historic birth, deaths and marriages
  Search across historic records.
• New Zealand History Online
  From the NZ Ministry for Culture and Heritage
• New Zealand Libraries catalogue
  Holdings of most New Zealand libraries on WorldCat.
• New Zealand Statistical Publications 1840-2000
  A historical record of statistical NZ publications from the mid-19th century. See the Statistics New Zealand website for other Statistics
• New Zealand Statutes as Enacted
  Acts 1841-2007 as enacted. They do not show amendments or whether repealed. For current legislation see NZ Legislation
• PapersPast (Note - search funtions no longer work in Internet Explorer)
  Digitised national and local (including Nelson newspapers)
• Tasman Heritage - Tasman District's Digital Collections.
• The Prow
  A heritage website telling the stories of the wider Nelson Marlborough and Tasman Region. People are able to add their own stories to the website.
• Te Ara
  The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Includes the Dictionary of NZ Biography.
• World War One Research guide