Heritage news

The Ancestor’s Attic is now open for business

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 12 April 2011

Opening hours Monday 1-4pm Thursday 10-4pm Sunday 2-4pm Address 67 Trafalgar Street, Nelson (opposite Trailway’s Motor Inn). Sign will be on the foot path or on the lawn outside the building. We have the middle room of what was the Old Folks Hall.…

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New Zealand content added to Ancestry.com

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 18 February 2011

The Anne Bromell collection of New Zealand resources has recently been added to the Ancestry[http://www. ancestrylibrary. com/] family history database.…

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FindmyPast

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 11 February 2011

Nelson Public Libraries now subscribes to FindMyPast - Australasian edition, a welcome addtion to the Libraries, resources for family history research. This online resource can be accessed in the Libraries (just like Ancestry Library). What can I find on FindMyPast? Over 50 million records from Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea.…

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Award for digitisation of PhotoNews

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 11 May 2010

Digital New Zealand (Digital NZ) to help digitise The Photo News, a magazine that covered life in Nelson in the 1960s and 1970s. The first run of the Nelson Photo News is a rare and unique photo record of life in Nelson in the early 1960s/70s. It captures a time of rapid social and cultural change.…

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Searching for Nelson City burial plots & funeral notices

Posted by Nelson Public Libraries on 1 May 2010

Searching for Nelson City burial plots and funeral notices As a result of a recently implemented project, Nelson City Council staff now have the ability to pinpoint the location of individual burial plots in the Nelson City cemeteries[[sitetree_link id=828]]. This burial plot search service is available at the Nelson City Council Service Centre or at the Information Services Desk at Elma Turner Library.  Nelson City maintains a cemeteries database[[sitetree_link id=1732]], which is a publicly accessible database of cemetery records available on the  Council website.…

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Nelson and Hochstetter

Posted by on 8 March 2009

Nelson & Hochstetter Read the story on the Prow… Ferdinand von Hochstetter (1828-1884), the father of New Zealand geology, had a signficant impact on Nelson. During his short visit to the region from August – October 1859, he (with Haast): Investigated the Aorere goldfield and the Pakawau coal seams Arranged for a major collection of international minerals and fossils to go to the Nelson Institute (much of it now in Wellington) Examined and reported on the copper and chromite mines on Dun Mountain Mapped the northern part of the Province (Haast mapped the southern area) – later publishing the first geological map of the region. Laid the foundation stone of the Nelson Institute Building in Hardy Street on August 26 1859 – the stone is now in the foyer of the Elma Turner Library.…

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Family history workshops

Posted by on 11 February 2009

Nelson Public Libraries* *are presenting (November 2009) A series of Researching your Family History Workshops with keen Nelson genealogists Betty Lark and Judith Fitchett If you have been thinking of doing genealogical research but haven't known where to begin then this is the workshop for you. It will be an exciting journey of discovery as you learn where and how to research and document your family information. The course consists of three workshops Elma Turner Library on Mondays 2, 9 and 16 November 2009.…

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