Hastings District Libraries

The Genealogy Collection is located upstairs at Hastings Library and includes:

• Microfiche, microfilms (listed below), including
• New Zealand Births, Deaths & Marriages to 1990
• Hawke's Bay newspapers on microfilm
• Genealogy reference books
• Local telephone directories
• Journals (many donated - thanks for this!)
• Electoral rolls for NZ on microfiche & in print

Available on our Research Computers (free) are:

• Ancestry Library Edition
• New Zealand Gazette Archives (one PC only)
• Papers Past - historic New Zealand newspapers online - now searchable

Microfiche and Microfilms held at Hastings Library

• Aliens Naturalised in NZ: 1843 – 1916 (2 fiche)
• Aotearoa he nupepa 1892: ma nga tangata moon (Napier), June 1892 (1) [film]
• Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives 1861 - 1873: a partial index (12)
• Auckland Marriages from 1848. Vol.1 (2)
• Auckland Provincial Highway Districts Assessment Rolls 1863-1870 (14)
• Bankruptcies in Canterbury NZ 1863-1880 (4)
• Bankruptcies in NZ 1881-1940 (9)
• Biographies Index (Alexander Turnbull Library) (271)
• British Isles Genealogical Register 1994 (27)
• Canterbury death duties register index 1867 – 1914 (3)
• Compendium of official documents relative to native affairs in the South Island (McKay) (10) + Index (4)
• Cornwall Family History Society directory (2)
• Datus: a chronology of NZ: c.925 – 1910 (2)
• Deceased estates “NZ Gazette” 1866 – 1900 (5)
• Deceased persons’ estates, Canterbury: 1887 – 1914 (3)
• Discharged in NZ (2)
• Early NZ by Sherrin & Wallace (6)
• Early Wellington Newspapers 1839 – 1865 (Alexander Turnbull Library) (22)
• Fencible settlements land grants: Howick, Onehunga, Otahuhu, Panmure (2)
• Fielding Star 1882 – 1909: extracts of births, deaths, marriages (5)
• Fielding Star 1910 – 1922: extracts of births, deaths, marriages (4)
• Hastings Standard 1896 - 1910 [m film]
• Hawera Star 1880 – 1982: transcripts of births (6)
• Hawkes Bay Tribune 1910 - 1937 [m film]
• Hawkes Bay Herald 1925 [m film]
• Hawkes Bay Herald Tribune 1937–1999 [m film]
• Hawkes Bay Today 1999  –  (ongoing) [m film]
• IGI: International Genealogical Index: records of births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, burials
• Imperial regiments in New Zealand
• HAP  1856 – 1864 Officer Service records [Harts] (1)
• In Search of Forlorn Hope: a comprehensive guide to locating British regiments and their records (1640 -  WWI) by John H Kitzmitter (3)
• Index to Maori names (2) [film]
• Index to sacramental register for RC Parish of Coromandel (1)
• Index to sacramental register for St Benedicts church, Auckland (2)
• Index to sacramental register for Thames parish, Thames (1)
• Index to the Catholic Registers of Te Aroha Parish (1)
• Index to the Catholic Registers of the Ponsonby Parish (2)
• Index to the Catholic Registers of the Pukekohe Parish (1)
• Intestate Estates, NZ Gazette 1843 – 1869 (1)
• London marriage licences and allegations 1521 – 1869 (9)
• Lyttleton Times 1851 – 1865: extracts of birth and death notices (2)
• Lyttleton Times: marriage notices 1851 – 1880 (3)
• Machinery accidents 1879 – 1919: an index reported to the AJHR (1)
• Maori land claims in AJHR and the Legislative Council 1855 – 1955 (3)
• Masters, mates and engineers 1866-1921 (4)
• McKirdy index : Bute 1855 – 1875: (the statutory death registers of Scotland) (5)
• McKirdy index: County of Clackmannan 1855 – 1875 (5)
• McKirdy index: Kinross deaths 1855 –1875 (2)
• Mining accidents 1870 – 1958 (2)
• Niupepa 1842 – 1933 (Maori Language Newspapers)
• NZ Biographical Clippings 1890 – 1988 (Alexander Turnbull Library) (1063)
• NZ Births 1840 – 1990
• NZ Cemetery Records
• HAP - (1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, Supplements) (845)
• NAP - (1995, 1997, 1998)
• NZ Contingents to South African War 1900-1902 Nominal Rolls; 1903 Casualty List (4)
• NZ Deaths 1848 – 1990
• NZ Electoral Rolls [see separate listing]
• NZ Expeditionary Force 1914 – 1918 (51)
• NZ Expeditionary Force 1939 – 1945, Nominal Rolls (29)
• NZ Expeditionary Force Casualties WWI (16)
• NZ Expeditionary Force First Reserve & Military Defaulters – WWI (10)
• NZ Expeditionary Force Vol. 1: Index (5)
• NZ Herald anniversary and death notices 1934-1970 (83) + index (10)
• NZ Index Annual 1899 (4)
• NZ Jury Lists 1842 - 1863 (5)
• NZ Listener 1939 – 1987: index only (Alexander Turnbull Library) (39)
• NZ Mail 1871 – 1907: index (Alexander Turnbull Library) (54)
• NZ Māori Births 1911 – 1961 (21)
• NZ Māori Deaths 1911 – 1961 (6)
• NZ Māori Marriages 1911 – 1952 (3)
• NZ Marriages 1840 – 1990
• NZ patents 1860 – 1890: an index to applications by NZ residents (1)
• NZ patents 1891 – 1912: an index to applications by NZ residents (5)
• NZ probates pre-1900 (3)
• NZ public school teachers 1907 (2)
• NZ registered ships 1840 – 1950 – ships, owners, builders and masters (7)
• NZ river drownings
• HAP 1840-1887 & drownings in the Avon River 1840-1887(1)
• NAP 1850-1900 Avon River
• NZ Shipping Company Register 1875 – 1893 (4)
• NZ War Deaths 1914 – 1918 (9)
• NZ war Deaths 1939 – 1945 (6)
• Officiating ministers in NZ 1848 – 1900 (4)
• Old colonists’ jubilee re-union Auckland, NZ: 1842 – 1892 (1)
• Otago settlers pre 1861: Val Maxwell Index (3)
• Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1852 – 1860: part 1 (3)
• Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1861 – 1865: part 2 (11)
• Passenger lists, Victoria, Australia outwards to NZ 1886 – 1870: part 3 (9)
• Patrick Henderson Shipping Company lists 1871 – 1880 (3)
• Persons granted NZ citizenship 1949-1968 (7)
• Persons naturalised in NZ pre-1948 (6)
• Port of Wellington entry 1856 – 1887, passenger and ship index (8)
• Province of Canterbury, NZ: list of sections purchased to 30 April 1863 (2)
• Public Service appointments 1912 – 1927 (2)
• Public Trust deceased estates, Canterbury 1901-1958 (9)
• Return of Owners of Land 1873 Gloucestershire (1)
• Return of Owners of Land 1873 Oxfordshire (1)
• Return of the Freeholders of NZ [Oct 1882] (13)
• Roll of honour, 1840-1902: defenders of the empire resident in New Zealand (1)
• Royal Irish Constabulary index: Part 1: 1816 – 1822 (7); Part 2: 1882 – 1921 (7)
• Sheep owners returns 1880, 1890, 1900 (3)
• Shipboard Accounts for Voyages to NZ 1840 - 1900 (2)
• Shipping to New Plymouth, NZ Arrivals, Departures: 1852-1880 (9)
• Shipping to NZ 1839 – 1889, Comber Index: chronological order of departure, ships, and Captains (7)
• South Island Presbyterian Church records [Knox College Library Archives] (1)
• St Catherine's Birth Index 1837-1900 [fiche & film]
• Suffolk Family History Society 1991, 1992, 1993 handbooks (3)
• Taranaki Crown grants: an index to land records (5)
• Taranaki Herald 1852-1880: Births, marriages, deaths (4)
• Tasmanian pioneers index (30)
• Te Wananga (Napier) 1874-1878 (3) [film]
• Turton’s land deeds 1877-1883, 6 parts (39)
• Wills at Lands and Deeds, Wellington (1)
• Wise’s New Zealand index 1908 (4)
• Witnesses who gave evidence to commissions and committees 1858 – 1935 (4)
• Women named in the ‘Cyclopedia of New Zealand’ (4)