Nelson City Council

The library does not have a dedicated genealogical collection, although it does hold historical resources which are useful for genealogists, plus guides to genealogical searching in the general non fiction collection.

Resources for researching whakapapa are listed on our Maori Research pages

Nelson resources

• The Nelson Heritage Collection - holds a rich collection of published items about the wider Nelson region of relevance to genealogiests.
  These include local and family histories, local directories and electoral rolls.
• Newspapers - Nelson Newspapers are held from 1842. For a full description click here.

Online resources

Key resources:

• Ancestry Plus *  (library database for use in the library only)
  Trace your family history across more than 1.5 billion names from over 4,000 collections
• Auckland City Libraries - family history pages
  Includes information about how to research and useful NZ resources
• Bloodline- directory of local sources of information for genealogists
• Early Settlers records
  Early ship records for Nelson immigrants
• Nelson Cemeteries records
• NZ historic birth, deaths and marriages
  Search across historic BMD records.

  Other relevant online resources are included in the list of Heritage sites. See also the National Library's list of links in their subject directory.