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As you continue researching your family history, there are a number of other places you can look for more information.
Ngā mātāpuna rangahau whānau nō Aotearoa New Zealand family research sources
Funeral directors' records
Funeral directors' records will give you similar information to a death certificate, however, it’s best to only contact funeral directors when you have proof of which funeral director was involved (from a death notice) and the date of death.
Auckland funeral directors
C Little and Sons Ltd
C Little and Sons Ltd records are now in the Cemetery Records collection in Kura Heritage Collections Online
Watney Sibun and W H Tongue
Sibuns Funeral Services and Advisors hold the records for both Watney Sibun (from 1903 onwards) and W H Tongue (from 1920 onwards).
Cemetery records
Along with funeral directors' records, cemetery records can provide information about parents, siblings, children and spouses.
New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) cemetery records
Transcriptions between 1812 - 2007 are available on microfiche at Research Central, or on Ancestry.com. Find Research Central among our locations.
The full NZ Cemeteries Collection is held at the NZSG library
Auckland cemetery records
Cemetery Records (Waikaraka, Ōtāhuhu, Hillsborough, Waiheke) are now in the Cemetery Records collection in Kura Heritage Collections Online
Finding family notices
Historic newspapers
Many birth, death and marriage (BDM) notices and obituaries can be found in historic newspapers online:
New Zealand newspapers - Papers Past
Australian newspapers - Trove
Death notice index and obituary notices
Research Central has a death notice index, clippings scrapbooks, and obituary scrapbooks that go beyond the dates available in online historic newspapers. Find Research Central among our locations.
Family notice websites and databases
You can search for family notices on Knowledge Basket Newztext
For more recent deaths search A Memory Tree website
Census and census substitutes
New Zealand doesn’t keep genealogical information from censuses. There are a number of census substitute sources you can use.
Search the library catalogue for:
street directories
phone directories
local body electoral rolls
burgess rolls
habitation indexes.
Other sources to try include:
general electoral rolls on Ancestry.com
land records on Auckland Council archives
school records on Archives New Zealand
For census information for other countries, visit:
- Ancestry.com and The Genealogist are available, free of charge, from a library.
- Full access to Find My Past is only available at a library.
- 1921 Census of England and Wales is available for access only within a library at this time. Watch out for updates on remote access.