Ancestry Library Edition Academic & Research
Trace your family history. Includes records from United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Access on library computers at any of our libraries.
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Family history
Online Resources
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British Newspaper Archive Newspapers
Offering online access to millions of pages of British and Irish newspapers from 1703-2003.
Available for in-library use only
Canterbury Stories
Canterbury Stories is our place for collecting and presenting online collections from our digitised archives, publications, photographs and community. Canterbury Stories includes material from Photo Hunts, exhibitions on Christchurch places and themes, sets of images, as well as a growing collection of archive and published material.
Christchurch City Council Cemeteries Database
This database covers interments in Christchurch City Council managed cemeteries. Apart from some on Banks Peninsula, church cemeteries are not included. There are very few records for the Barbadoes Street cemetery listed. Cremation details are not included in this database unless there was an ashes burial.
Details of interments from Christchurch City Council cemeteries compiled by the Greenspace Unit of the Christchurch City Council.
Christchurch Streets Map New!
Search or browse the interactive Christchurch Streets map to find the origins of our city's street names.
Researched by Christchurch City Libraries, the streets information comes from published works, manuscripts, interviews, as a well as Christchurch City Council archives.
Discovery Wall
The Discovery Wall showcases images and videos curated from the Christchurch City Libraries Digital Heritage collection, you can visit the wall at Tūranga or the Mobile Discovery Wall when it visits your local library or you can search or browse the images on our Discovery Wall website. You can contribute to the Discovery Wall by uploading images or videos.
Find My Past
A family history and genealogy website covering the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
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Gale Primary Sources Magazines & journals Newspapers Primary resources 
Search a selection of newspaper and magazine archives, monographs and manuscripts all cross-searchable, full text and full image of papers is available.
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- Find out about Gale Primary Sources and what archives are available
MyHeritage Library edition
Birth, death and marriage records from 48 countries, the complete U.S. and U.K. censuses, immigration, military and tombstone records and more than 2 billion family tree profiles.
New Zealand Gazette Archive
Copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette and related publications from 1841 to the present. Available in PDF format.
Access this at any of our libraries.
Available for in-library use only
Papers Past Newspapers Primary resources
Digitised New Zealand newspapers, periodicals, letters, diaries and parliamentary papers from 1839 to 1945. Coverage includes The Press from 1861 to 1989.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Newspapers Primary resources
Digital archive of full text and full image newspapers dating back to the 18th century.
