Family History CD-ROMs

The Heritage Collection on Level 3 of the Central Library holds a number of CD-ROMs of interest to family historians:

Australian Vital Records Index 1788-1905

Australasian Genealogical Computing Index volume 3

Bay of Plenty Times births, deaths and marriages 1872-1910.

New Zealand Burial Locator versions 1 and 2
A collection of 3 million records from a variety of sources. Not a complete transcription.

New Zealand Marriages 1836 - 1956
Replicates Varcoe's index but much easier to search. Includes information on Intentions to Marry

New Zealand Electoral Roll 1881
The first New Zealand general election where all men were able to vote

Early Auckland Births and Deaths
1840s – 1870s

Bay of Plenty Times Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1872-1910

Waikato Births, Deaths and Marriages 1864 – 1900
Death entries go up to about 1920.

Vital Records Index British Isles
5 million births, christenings and marriages taken from a partial collection of records in the British Isles dating from 1538 - 1888

1881 British Census and National Index

Index of death Notices from the New Zealand Herald and the Herald on Sunday
1st January 2001 – 31st December 2006

Early Wellington Settlers
130,000 records of early Wellington settlers.

Nominal and Descriptive Rolls of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Waikato Regiments 1863 - 1867

NZSG Index version 5 - New Zealand Society of Genealogist's index to 4.7 million records drawn from 144 different record types.