Help for Family History at your Library

Rotorua Library Genealogy Collections

Rotorua Library has a selection of different sources to help you trace your ancestors :

How to books, like the following titles :

•  "A beginner's guide to online genealogy: learn how to trace your family history and discover your roots" by Michael Dunn. 
• "Unofficial guide to Ancestry.com" by Nancy Hendrickson.
• "Writing your family history" by Gill Blanchard.
• Tracing your ancestors through family photographs" by Jayne Shrimpton.

District Histories and School Jubilee publications. e.g.

Magazines

• "Who do you think you are", published monthly.
• "NZ Genealogist" 
• "Family Tree" 
• "Australian Family Tree Connections"

Local Newspapers,via Microfiche/film for past newspapers and paper copies for last 6 months, and access to historic newspapers via Papers Past

Online Access in the Library for the following :

Ancestry.com   (in Library use only)  
Find My Past    (in Library use only)
NZ Gazettes     (in Library use only)

Links to these can be found on our website :

NZ Births, Deaths and Marriages (Historic) ; Rotorua Cemetery Index ; Archway (Archives NZ).

For help of the personal kind : Come down to our Heritage & Research area in the new 'Temporary' Library at 1238 Pukuatua Street, see you there.

Also don't forget the Volunteers from the Rotorua Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, are happy to chat with you about your family history research queries, in the Library every second Wednesday of the month. 

August is Family History Month

Rotorua Library has Genealogy books and other sources

Have you thought of using old newspapers online to search for birth and death notices? 

National Library of NZ has a fabulous reliable online resource called Papers Past, although not all births, marriages and deaths are published this is still a very good place to start for all of New Zealand's newspapers that are digitised. 

Here are just a few samples of what you may find :

WAIRARAPA AGE, VOLUME XXXII, ISSUE 10697, 19 AUGUST 1912

Brief and to the point : Hastings Standard, 14 November 1898

Wedding of Miss Nora Curtis of Rotorua in
King Country Chronicle 15 March 1909

A Rotorua Silver Wedding in Evening Post 21 September 1939

For more information click the link to Papers Past at the top of this post.

Also check out previous posts for Family History Month

The new, temporary Rotorua Library.

Rotorua Library has a new location, 1238 Pukuatua Street.

From this 

To this

and this

Official opening ceremony 29 July 2016

Read all about our new space on the Rotorua Library website

Come and see us and enjoy our new 'Temporary Library' space at 1238 Pukuatua Street. We still have great books, magazines, DVD's and more available to borrow and free internet for all. Try the coffee at the Coffee Shack, ably provided by brother and sister team, Jason and Delina Dibben. 

We look forward to seeing you!