Online genealogy resources

Free access to these resources is only available on the genealogy computers at Porirua City Centre library. You do not have to be a Porirua Library member to use these computers.

• Ancestry Library Edition (including New Zealand Electoral Rolls 1853-2010)
• Findmypast Community Edition including the 1921 Census for England and Wales (maximum 2 users at any one time)
• British Newspaper Archive (maximum 2 users at any one time, registration required on first use)

• The Wilson Collection (a free index of some important NZ genealogy resources including burial and marriage records, WWI, early settlers and electoral rolls)
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission (find war dead and cemeteries for Commonwealth soldiers of WWI and WWII)
• New Zealand Births, Deaths and Marriages Online (NZ government website to search and order historical records)
• New Zealand Society of Genealogists (information for members of the NZSG as well as non-members)
• Papers Past (NZ government website with full-text searchable digitised NZ newspapers)
• New Zealand Memories Magazine Archives Genealogy List (Search the NZ Memories Magazine database of people's names mentioned in the magazine over the years - covers Issue 1 to Issue 161)

• FamilySearch (website of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: registration required on first use).
• Free UK Genealogy ( Free UK Genealogy provides online access to family history records. A team of dedicated volunteers creates high-quality transcriptions of public records from governmental sources, parish churches, and other trusted institutions. FreeUk has three project websites: FreeBMD (births, marriages and deaths), FreeCEN (census data from 1841 to 1891) and FreeREG (parish registers).
• UK Marriage Locator ( This free website enables you to interpret the Marriage Index created by the General Register Office for England and Wales. By using it you can determine where your ancestors were married - not just which Registration District, but even which church.)
• Trove (a National Library of Australia website offering free public access to a wide range of information, including historical and contemporary materials, e.g. digitised newspapers, maps, images).
• Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (a re-imagining and recreation, through digital technologies, of the archive of the Public Record Office of Ireland that was lost on 30th June 1922 during the destruction of Dublin’s Four Courts at the outset of the Irish Civil War)