Posts tagged with family history

A watercolour of a three-masted ship at sail with land in the distance.

Tracing your maternal line: Part II — The Durrant family in New Zealand

By Helen Smith
20 December 2023
Family history research — finding the women in your family tree.
Collections Long reads
A woman and three children are seen outside a dwelling with rolling hills and farmland in the distance.

Tracing your maternal line: Part I — England in the 18th-19th centuries

By Helen Smith
28 November 2023
Family history research — finding the women in your family tree.
Collections Long reads
A woman is seated behind a laptop at a small table wearing a colorful ei katu, flower crown.

Off the record | Pacific views — Inside and out

By Taputukura Raea
26 October 2023
Engaging with Pacific communities to help them connect with Library collections.
Collections Outside the Library
Three people pose for a photograph while smiling at the camera and wearing colourful patterned shirts.

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa

By Suliana Vea
8 September 2023
Celebrating Samoa Language Week at the Library.
Collections Events
A group of people leaning over a table watching a woman making a box.

Off the record | Keeping it local

By Chris Szekely
6 September 2023
An interview with Vicki-Anne Heikell about working in the world of conservation.
Behind the scenes
Sunrise on carvings at Omahu marae.

Kahungunu ringa hora — Cyclone Gabrielle relief

By Clare Butler
21 June 2023
Supporting Omahu marae after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Outside the Library
A blurry black and white studio portrait of a young girl in Victorian times.

The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part III – The runaway husband and father

By Helen Smith
9 November 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
Collections Long reads
Three men stand on the path outside a small wooden homestead surrounded by a picket fence.

The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part II – The fire and the hasty marriage

By Helen Smith
6 October 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
Collections Long reads
A blurry black and white photo of early Auckland showing wooden dwellings and a dirt road.

The Story of William Coppell 1844-1913: Part 1 – The Captain

By Helen Smith
31 August 2022
Piecing together a family's story through letters, newspapers and personal recollections.
Collections Long reads
Cartoon of a woman carrying a flag with words "Perfect political equality" being given a hand by a man to reach the top of a summit named Parliamentary Heights.

The Women’s Suffrage Petition Biographies Project: Research 101

By Christa Hopkinson
11 August 2020
Writing a biography of women who signed the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition.
Collections
A mugshots, showing the side profile and full face image of a man.

Black sheep in the family?

By Melanie Lovell-Smith
28 August 2019
What do Agnes Vallance, Agnes Skervington, Amy Laing, Amy Bennett, Amy Cameron, Amy Shannon, Amy Chanel, and Percy Redwood all have in common?
Collections
Personal digital archives teaser.

The history of you and me

By Valerie Love
21 November 2018
Strategies for managing our personal digital archives.
Outside the Library
Ted Smith in uniform.

Ted Smith’s War

By Helen Smith
23 April 2018
My grandfather arrived at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, the day the Wellington Infantry Battalion captured Chunuk Bair. This is his story.
Long reads
Harry Comper, ca 1916-1917.

“Now, so long, sister mine”: My family’s Passchendaele story

By Helen Smith
3 October 2017
Remembering 2nd Lieutenant William Henry Comper, who died 4 Oct 1917, in the Battle of Broodseinde.
Long reads
Illustration of Port Jackson and Sydney Cove.

To New-Ulster, from Ulster: Part II - Sarah Mackey’s journey to NZ

By Helen Smith
31 August 2017
Retracing the journey of an ancestor from her arrival in Auckland to her birth in Dunkineely, Ireland.
Collections
A house.

To New-Ulster, from Ulster: Part I – Auckland Asylum

By Helen Smith
18 August 2017
Retracing the journey of an ancestor from her death in the Auckland Lunatic Asylum to her birth in Dunkineely, Ireland.
Collections
A woman with two children; one child is sitting on a chair.

Digging for treasure in the photo archives

By Helen Smith
26 February 2016
Family history research inspired by photographs of Pitcairn Island.
Collections
Anna Tiaki showing people prints from the Crown Studio collections.

Crown jewels

By Anna Tiaki
4 August 2015
Family and community in the Pacific collections.
Collections
Shows an illustration woman with her head on a man's shoulder beside three men wearing hats. This image is taken from the cover of 'The atlas of the great Irish famine'.

Not such a long way to Tipperary

By Margaret Hurst
15 March 2013
Do you have Irish ancestry?
Collections
Grey leaf.

Find your family

By Margaret Hurst
31 August 2012
Family history is for everyone! See how you can make a start.
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