NEW ZEALAND SOCIETY OF GENEALOGISTS
SOUTH CANTERBURY BRANCH

TRACING YOUR FAMILY TREE??
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May / June 2009 Newsletter 349K pdf file, may take a few minutes to load
Snippets from previous newsletters    Branch Members Surname Interests  

MEETINGS: Second Tuesday of month, February-December inclusive at 7.30 p.m.  Speakers and Research

VENUE: South Canterbury Museum Meeting Room, Perth Street, Timaru
($2 door charge for visitors)

RESEARCH ROOM AT SC MUSEUM - $2.00 charge for non-members.
Open: Tuesday-Friday and Sunday 1.30 - 4.30 p.m. (Closed Mondays and Saturdays.)
To help you search for your ancestors, we have the following resources, along with friendly and helpful members willing to assist and advise you.

FICHE
RGO - NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages up to 1960
RGO - NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages 1981-1990
New Zealand Registrar General’s Indexes of Births, Deaths and Marriages 1961-1970 
New Zealand Cemetery Transcripts
Electoral Rolls for 1893, 1914, 1925
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1938 (153 fiches)
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1949 and 1951 supplement [203 fiches]
New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1960 (179 fiches)
Wises Directories 1910 and 1920
Wise's New Zealand Post Office Directory 1930 [18 fiches]
Wise's New Zealand Post Office Directory 1940 [20 fiches]
Numerous other regional and national fiche
‘Miscellaneous’ boxes -
· Taranaki Crown Grants: an index to Land Records (5 fiches) 
· Discharged in New Zealand – Soldiers of the Imperial Foot Regiments who took their discharge in New Zealand 1840-1870 – Hugh & Lynn Hughes (indexed) (2 fiches) 
· Bankruptcies in Canterbury, New Zealand 1863-1880: an index (includes some South Canterbury names in the main index and a South Canterbury supplement) (3 fiches)  
· Victoria Outward Shipping -  recently acquired seven more fiches in this series. Passenger lists from Victoria, Australia, outwards to New Zealand: Part Four, 1871-1880. These are filed under SHIPPING in the Microfiche Miscellaneous Box 2.Nottinghamshire - Marriages Index
Nottinghamshire - Parish Registers: Marriages (for several parishes)
Nottinghamshire - Monumental Inscriptions (several)
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire - Protestation Returns
Nottinghamshire - British Isles Genealogical Register 1994 (index)
Obituaries Scottish and Nova Scotian Settlers in New Zealand 1933-1979 (5 fiches)
Register of New Zealand Immigrants of Scottish Birth, pre 1921 (NZSG Scottish Group)
Register of New Zealand Immigrants of Scottish Birth, pre 1921 (Part 2)
Timaru Herald Death Notices (indexed): 1 August 2005-31 December 2005
New Zealand Birth, Marriage and Death indexes for 1971-1980 have been acquired.
CD - New Zealand Marriages 1836-1956 (Searches can be made on surname plus given name or initial, and date.  Click on 'Search for Spouse' to find the partner.)
NZ RGO Index - Marriages 1969 Brides: H-O 3 of 6 [surname letter L]
Our branch now has the complete fiche collection of these indexes from 1840/1848 to 1990. These are located in the branch library and may be used whenever the museum research room is open - free for branch members; $2.00 per session for non-members.

NZSG Cemetery Records 2004 Supplement
136 fiches (Nos 911-1046) have been added to the collection of cemetery records. These include new transcripts and additions and updates of earlier transcripts. Districts represented in the new records are Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Thames Valley/Bay of Plenty, East Cape, Hawkes Bay, Westland, Canterbury/North Canterbury, Otago, Manawatu.

Fiche No 1 has been replaced with an updated index, and there is an updated index book.

Divorce Information extracted from NZ Truth c1946-c1966
The extracts include the names of the petitioner and the respondent, and those of co-respondents and witnesses. The arrangement is alphabetical. There is a separate index of co-respondents, which can be found in a clear-file on the shelf. These are filed under NEWSPAPERS in MISCELLANEOUS Box 2.
The above records are located in the branch library
and may be used whenever the museum research room is open
- free for branch members; $2.00 per session for non-members.

Enid Seton-Kellaway Collection
We have recently acquired this new collection of microfiches published by NZSG in 2003. It is a compilation of Death Notices from New Zealand newspapers 1957-1984, and can be found in the second box of Miscellaneous Records under Newspapers.

INDEXES
Card File Index
South Canterbury School Records
South Canterbury Parish Registers

LIBRARY
Reference Books
NZSG leaflets, booklets
Local and New Zealand Histories
Electoral Rolls
Research Directories
St Mary's, Timaru Records 
        Marriage records - $2.00 per photocopy for members
        Also baptisms and burial records
Some District Parish Transcription
Newspaper clippings - births, deaths, marriages
Pleasant Point District High School - Souvenir History 1868-1948 (donated)
Searching for Surnames: A practical guide to their meanings and origins - John Titford
Wise & Co's New Zealand Directory for 1878-79 - South Canterbury Extracts (donated)
Wise's Directories and 1938 and 1949

COMPUTER
South Canterbury School Records
South Canterbury Parish Records

Matamata Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions (2005)
Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin Headstone Transcriptions (2006)
NZ Burial Locator
Family History Programmes
Waimakariri District North Canterbury Burial records (Version 1 - 2007)
Cyclopedia of New Zealand on CDs
Wellington CD - Early Wellington Settlers (over 130,000)
White Wings on CD
The New Zealand Gazette for 1860  (Colonial CD Book)
Who's Who in New Zealand 1938 (Colonial CD Book)
New Zealand WWI Service Personnel CD
New Zealand Electoral Roll 1893 CD searchable
Wise's New Zealand Post Office Directory for 1926
The School List of Christ's College Grammar School from 1850 to 1921

Australian Vital Records Index CD's
Tasmania Federation Index: Births 1900-1919, Deaths and marriages 1900-1930
Victoria Federation Index: Births, Deaths and Marriages 1889 - 1901

England and Wales National Burial Index CDs (2nd edition, 2004)
British Isles Index Census 1851 Devon, Norfolk, Warwick
British Isles 1881 Census and Census Index
GRD up to 1999
British Vital Records

TIMARU ST MARY'S CHURCH RECORDS

SUBSCRIPTIONS
South Canterbury Branch Subscriptions October 2007-March 2009
Single NZSG members $30.00
Single non-NZSG $37.50
Joint NZSG members $45.00
Joint non-NZSG $52.50

Annual subscription resumes again March 2009 to bring Branch in line with end of NZSG financial year.
NZSG Membership - please refer to www.genealogy.org.nz for costs.

Visitors welcome to attend two consecutive meetings - $2 door charge.

Contacts:
Lois White (Convenor) LoisW@alliance.co.nz
Research Officer - Lois Shears Ph: 688-1655
 SouthCanterbury@genealogy.org.nz

We have a comprehensive library and invite you to visit and see if there is anything there that would be of assistance. If you can't visit, then please do not hesitate to get in touch with anyone listed and we will endeavour to help.

REMEMBER: Your family tree is only healthy if the limbs grow documentation; the roots are untangled and the soil treated with truth.

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If anyone would like a newsletter posted out, please contact the Secretary on SouthCanterbury@genealogy.org.nz to arrange this. For those on the internet, you can download the newsletter from our web page, see above.
 

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