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656 Votes

Broadsheet: NZ feminist magazine

It would be great to have this magazine online, as a record of the feminist and women's movement in NZ. Great fo...
By Ligs, 37 comments, Last comment 15 November 11, 03:41pm By Finz
407 Votes

Police Gazettes

Police Gazettes contain a wealth of invaluable information, much of it genealogical, that many people do not eve...
By Sandra, 17 comments, Last comment 01 October 11, 12:41pm By JAH
328 Votes

Genealogical data

Birth, death and marriage records. It currently costs $25 to do a search. You should be able to do this yourse...
By BigBadaboom, 13 comments, Last comment 13 March 10, 05:07pm By Anonymous
323 Votes

Electoral Rolls

These are currently on microfiche. Having them online in a searchable database, ideally cross-referenced with in...
By Jamie Mackay, 17 comments, Last comment 05 August 09, 07:51am By patsymac
277 Votes

Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives (AJHRS)

Arguably the most important single source of information for anyone studying New Zealand history. Also contain l...
By Jamie Mackay, 21 comments, Last comment 19 August 10, 11:56am By Fiona
270 Votes

Stones Directories, 1884-1955

A forerunner to the telephone directory, they contain detailed information on people, their occupations & places...
By Janine (for NZMS), 23 comments, Last comment 11 February 12, 01:58am By Anonymous
256 Votes

Auckland Weekly News

We've had a fair number of requests for this paper to be added to Papers Past.
By PapersPastManager, 15 comments, Last comment 16 January 12, 11:32pm By Lexx274
234 Votes

AUCKLAND MARITIME AND SOCIAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPHS

Photographic images offer a direct testimony and understanding of the lives of European settlers in Auckland Pro...
By Marleene Boyd, 7 comments, Last comment 04 July 10, 07:27pm By trudie
193 Votes

Nelson Photo News, 1960-1972

The first run of the Nelson Photo News is a rare and unique photographic record of life in Nelson in the early 1...
By nicola harwood, 26 comments, Last comment 06 June 11, 11:39am By Donaldstv
188 Votes

Adding pictures and text about historic places to the Register Online

Our Images & Citations Project will enhance the Register Online by adding text and pictures to the information a...
By NZ Historic Places Trust, 2 comments, Last comment 17 September 10, 12:12pm By tabitha
183 Votes

The New Zealand Herald, 1863-

The Herald was one of Auckland's major early papers, founded by William Chisholm Wilson.
By Gordon, 7 comments, Last comment 18 September 10, 07:58pm By Caromac
167 Votes

Historic New Zealand Legislation 1841-2007

The statutes and regulations for New Zealand for this period are only available in hard copy volumes (some of wh...
By David Noble, 9 comments, Last comment 30 June 11, 11:48am By David Noble
162 Votes

School Journal

Over 100 years old, the School Journal is an amazing source of commentary on NZ society and culture over the yea...
By Sarah Jones, 13 comments, Last comment 20 October 10, 10:09am By brewstmerr
151 Votes

The Press (Christchurch, 1861- )

Major New Zealand Newspaper. ISSN 0113-9762
By Paul, 6 comments, Last comment 27 November 09, 10:58pm By Grant
145 Votes

Thames Advertiser

By PapersPastManager, 7 comments, Last comment 31 July 09, 02:26pm By David Legge
144 Votes

Telephone books

The early telephone books are an excellent historical resource for tracing people and businesses - great for ide...
By Victoria Leachman, 5 comments, Last comment 11 August 09, 01:48pm By Amber
140 Votes

Lyttelton Times, 1851-1929

Major New Zealand Newspaper
By Paul, 15 comments, Last comment 26 October 11, 12:03pm By Fiona Rigby (DigitalNZ
129 Votes

The Star (Canterbury)

The Lyttelton Times Co. began The Star in 1868. Over the years it has changed names a few times to Christchurch...
By PapersPastManager, 6 comments, Last comment 27 November 09, 11:11pm By Grant
124 Votes

Tapanui Courier

A few of our loyal fans have requested the Tapanui Courier to be added to Papers Past. Tapanui is in West Ota...
By PapersPastManager, 12 comments, Last comment 20 December 11, 01:40am By Roger Jennens
124 Votes

Criminal Mug Shots, 1886-1908

Wondering if any of your great-great-great-grandparents were criminals? The New Zealand Police Museum has a la...
By NZPoliceMuseum, 3 comments, Last comment 12 December 10, 10:40am By Cathyt
123 Votes

Auckland Star

Originally published as the Evening Star, from 24 March 1870 to 7 March 1879, the paper continued as the Aucklan...
By PapersPastManager, 3 comments, Last comment 03 December 09, 06:35pm By jamcg
122 Votes

Southern Stars Royal Astronomical Society of NZ Journal

Southern Stars is the Royal Astronomical Society of NZ's Quarterly Journal which has been published continuously...
By Marilyn, 12 comments, Last comment 28 February 10, 04:41pm By Anonymous
119 Votes

NZ Post Office Directories

These also list people by name, address and occupation and date from the 1800s till early 20th century and are a...
By donL, 4 comments, Last comment 02 December 10, 08:13am By Abraham
112 Votes

Canterbury Times

It has photographs and useful information about the early history of Canterbury area. Especially photographs and...
By Lynda, 3 comments, Last comment 07 February 10, 01:21am By Sarndra
111 Votes

Historical Newspapers

All the titles listed so far are worthy candidates, but they split the vote! Lets look at the big picture of New...
By Janine (for NZMS), 3 comments, Last comment 16 July 09, 10:05am By Quintain
106 Votes

Yesterdays papers

I imagine all of yesterdays papers are sent as a digital file to a printer. Yet we aren't collecting them. We ar...
By Paul, 6 comments, Last comment 01 February 10, 11:22pm By Paul
103 Votes

Troopship magazines

These WW1 and WW2 publications contain an untapped resource about who was on board, activities, reflections on h...
By MusLibn, 7 comments, Last comment 20 November 09, 11:01pm By Paul
93 Votes

Aerial photography

Since the early 1940's, NZ taxpayers have paid for regular aerial photography coverage of all of New Zealand. T...
By AJ, 7 comments, Last comment 08 September 11, 05:03pm By Chris Parkyn
92 Votes

Wises Directories

These directorpoes date from the late 19th century till the late 20th century and detail the names occupations a...
By donL, 6 comments, Last comment 15 March 10, 11:58am By hugo
87 Votes

Despatches from Down Under :The papers of the New Zealand colony- From and to the British Colonial Office.

The British Parliamentary Papers (BPP) represent an important source of largely untapped information about New Z...
By Kathryn Parsons, 6 comments, Last comment 05 March 10, 02:41pm By Penny Griffith
84 Votes

Wanganui Chronicle

From the Wanganui Chronicle website: Local resident Henry Stokes projected the notion of a newspaper for Petre a...
By PapersPastManager, 4 comments, Last comment 03 August 09, 01:09pm By Folkie
81 Votes

Regional photos

The places we grew up in change enormously. Photos of places throughout the 20th century would be both useful a...
By famres, 6 comments, Last comment 14 December 09, 02:03pm By stuartyeates
76 Votes

Auckland Times, 1842-1846

Published by Henry Falwasser. An early newspaper which didn't last long but of historical value. Not many origin...
By kac, 1 comments, Last comment 16 July 09, 08:49pm By hugo
76 Votes

Māori Land Court Minute Books

The Māori Land Court Minute Books contain judges’ notes on court sittings from 1865 to 1910. These sittings cove...
By Paul, 13 comments, Last comment 01 April 11, 02:58pm By stuartyeates
72 Votes

Landfall

New Zealand's premier arts and literature magazine since its founding in 1947. I imagine that there are enormous...
By Edmund King, 2 comments, Last comment 26 November 09, 09:38am By Barbara Taylor
71 Votes

Digitisation of Oral History Collection

Hamilton City Libraries has an oral history collection of over 700 tapes. Some of the oral histories form parts ...
By MarkC, 4 comments, Last comment 04 October 10, 08:46am By Fiona
69 Votes

New Zealand Parliamentary Debates

Second only to AJHRs surely. For historians the records of since 1854 are a very significant source of primary i...
By sablyth, 2 comments, Last comment 16 July 09, 09:05pm By hugo
65 Votes

New Zealand Listener

The NZ Listener indexes at ATL are a great resource for researchers, would be even better to get at least the fi...
By Jamie Mackay, 3 comments, Last comment 03 July 09, 10:53am By Lisa
59 Votes

Otaki Mail

By PapersPastManager, 3 comments, Last comment 18 July 09, 06:34am By Diane Taylor
59 Votes

Buller Historical and Genealogical Data

In conjunction with the Buller District Library, the Westport Genealogy and History Group would like to digitise...
By Westport Genealogy, 4 comments, Last comment 15 March 10, 11:52am By hugo
56 Votes

Maori Land Court Minutes

Put Maori Land Court minutes on line, they are probably NZs finest record of oral history. There is some angst r...
By Tamai, 2 comments, Last comment 08 July 10, 11:08am By stuartyeates
54 Votes

New Zealand Official Yearbook

107(?) editions available for digitisation
By brianf, 3 comments, Last comment 11 May 10, 10:26am By Fiona
50 Votes

Social History Photographs from the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70

The North Otago Museum has a huge collection of historic photographs that have been scanned and are used by many...
By North Otago Museum, 1 comments, Last comment 11 February 10, 09:26pm By North Otago Museum
48 Votes

School Registeries from 17/1800s onwards

I hope these have not been destroyed because school registers of children would probably have their parents/care...
By charliegyrl, 3 comments, Last comment 17 January 11, 02:35pm By Anna Blackman
46 Votes

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL PUBLICATIONS (1853-1876)

Official publications of the 10 provinces are something of a Cinderella compared with those of central governmen...
By Penny Griffith, 2 comments, Last comment 20 November 09, 11:23pm By Paul
45 Votes

Union list of newspapers preserved in libraries, newspaper offices, local authority offices and museums in New Zealand

Harvey type this up and turn it into a place * to capture holdings of print * capture conditions of print * c...
By Paul, 5 comments, Last comment 27 November 09, 11:49am By Anna Blackman
42 Votes

Rip It Up

Digitsing NZ's music magazine published since the mid 70s. Be excellent if recording companies would come to the...
By John Garraway, 1 comments, Last comment 05 June 09, 03:19pm By Jason Darwin
41 Votes

Art New Zealand

Yearly, 1928-1938 An important record of pre-War New Zealand artisits and attitudes towards arts in New Zealand....
By Jason Darwin, 2 comments, Last comment 25 June 09, 03:02pm By TimJones
40 Votes

Turnbull Library Record

A peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the Turnbull Library in association with the Friends of ...
By Paul, 1 comments, Last comment 21 July 09, 01:53pm By Edmund King
38 Votes

New Zealand yearbooks

Contains get statistical information of use to a range of researchers
By kac, 2 comments, Last comment 11 May 10, 10:26am By Fiona
 

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