Record Atlas
10 FamilySearch collections · 2 archives · 56 places · 1800–2012

New Zealand

Where the records of New Zealand are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 22,175,623 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in New Zealand

1 of the 2 checked sources here can be opened tonight. 1is free images with no account. 1is paid or part-paid. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach New Zealand without a subscription.

Write to Archives New Zealand — Collections for what is not online. FamilySearch has 10 collections covering it, running 1800–2012, 22,175,623 indexed records. No jurisdiction region covers New Zealand yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

56 places placed, 2 volumes walked. Open New Zealand on the map, or tell us what is missing.

The archives

  • Archives New Zealand — Collections free Wellington, New Zealand

    New Zealand probate, military and immigration records, much of it digitised and free.

  • Findmypast paid

    Commercial. The strongest British and Irish collection, including parish registers licensed from diocesan archives and the 1921 census of England and Wales. BT 27 IS NOT ONE FORM AND ITS COLUMNS ARE NOT A CONSTANT. The outward passenger lists were re-drawn across the series, so a field present in one piece proves nothing about another and the era has to be checked before a row is planned around it. Sampled by the Luwinski archive: the 1907 form has NO «last address in the United Kingdom» column at all and buckets ages by nationality instead; the 1937 and 1939 form — printed «P.M. 21», columns (1)–(9) — carries last UK address at (6), country of last permanent residence at (8) and country of intended future permanent residence at (9); a 1951 piece is a typed US military transport manifest filed inside BT 27 with none of the Board of Trade form left. ACROSS EVERY REVISION SEEN, none gives an address in the DESTINATION country — the finest is a country and nothing below it, so «where in Australia did they settle» is not a question this series answers.

And 12 worldwide providers reach New Zealand too — the full list.

10 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

New Zealand — nationwide 10

3 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

Church and parish registers 1
Civil registration and vital records 1
Probate, land and notarial 1
Military and wartime 1
Immigration and emigration 2
Cemeteries and burials 1

56 places, 2 volumes

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