Archway-style Collections Search

14 results matching 39663

Dunedin High Court > Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (II)

ID	Name	Scan	Date	Held At
🌀 R14698148	📃 View ScanR14698148 JOHNSTONE Emily - Dunedin - Widow Entity Type Item Code R14698148 Year 1963 Description (Additional) DIGITISED COPY is available and can be viewed free of charge on LDS FamilySearch website https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481. Search by name and refine by date if necessary. Series Dunedin probate and Letters of Administration files (II) Agency Dunedin High Court Held At Dunedin repository Item Type Physical Access Open Digital Copy 📃 View Scan Format Text Record Number 396/63 Box Number 694 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1963Dunedin	📃 View Scan	1963	Dunedin

Invercargill High Court > Invercargill Probates and Letters of Administration

ID	Name	Scan	Date	Held At
🌀 R22090183	📃 View ScanR22090183 BOWDEN Frederick Archibald - Ashers Siding - Retired Flax Gatherer Entity Type Item Code R22090183 Year 1963 Description (Additional) DIGITISED COPY is available and can be viewed free of charge on LDS FamilySearch website https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481. Search by name and refine by date if necessary. Series Invercargill Probates and Letters of Administration Agency Invercargill High Court Held At Dunedin repository Item Type Physical Access Open Digital Copy 📃 View Scan Format Text Record Number 396/63 Box Number 185 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1963Dunedin	📃 View Scan	1963	Dunedin

Immigration New Zealand > Immigration Case Files

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R15497240	R15497240 Ahas, August ; Green'S Travel Servi, Ce Ltd Funaki M Entity Type Item Code R15497240 Years 1947 - 1972 Series Immigration Case Files Agency Immigration New Zealand Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Restricted Format Text Record Number 39663 Box Number 38 Part Number 1 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1947 - 1972Wellington	1947 - 1972	Wellington

Wellington High Court > Wellington probate files (first sequence)

ID	Name	Scan	Date	Held At
🌀 R23095115	📃 View ScanR23095115 WILLERS George Entity Type Item Code R23095115 Year 1926 Description (Additional) Allenton - Farmer - DIGITISED COPY is available and can be viewed free of charge on LDS FamilySearch website https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481. Search by name and refine by date if necessary. Series Wellington probate files (first sequence) Agency Wellington High Court Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Open Digital Copy 📃 View Scan Format Text Record Number 39663 Box Number 578 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1926Wellington	📃 View Scan	1926	Wellington

Companies Registry, Auckland Office > Auckland closed company files

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R21979451	R21979451 La Gonda (Matamata) Ltd Entity Type Item Code R21979451 Years 1970 - 1988 Series Auckland closed company files Agency Companies Registry, Auckland Office Held At Auckland repository Item Type Physical Access Open Format Text Record Number 39663 Box Number 5746 Record Number Alt 92606 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1970 - 1988Auckland	1970 - 1988	Auckland

Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office > Alien registration files (1949-77 system)

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R23643483	R23643483 Kantorski, Julia - Polish Entity Type Item Code R23643483 Years 1950 - 1952 Series Alien registration files (1949-77 system) Agency District Court Auckland Held At Auckland repository Item Type Physical Access Restricted Format Text Record Number 39663 Box Number 11 Record Number Alt 3229 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1950 - 1952Auckland	1950 - 1952	Auckland
🌀 R23998291	R23998291 Kantorski, Julia (Pole) - applied for Citizenship 10 January 1970 - Alien file taken 19 February 1970 [Cover only] Entity Type Item Code R23998291 Years 1970 - 1971 Series Alien registration files (1949-77 system) Agency Department of Internal Affairs, Head Office Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Open Format Text Record Number AL39663 Box Number 469 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1970 - 1971Wellington	1970 - 1971	Wellington

> Antarctica New Zealand Film and Pictorial Collection

ID	Name	Held At
🌀 R25145993	R25145993 [Antarctica/Scott Base] Entity Type Item Code R25145993 Description (Additional) Original: Print Description: Stage of birth of a Weddell seal Photographer: David Greenwood Series Antarctica New Zealand Film and Pictorial Collection Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Open Format Photograph Record Number ANZPC0107.10 Box Number 23 Record Number Alt 39663 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 Wellington	Wellington

New Plymouth High Court > New Plymouth probate files

ID	Name	Scan	Date	Held At
🌀 R23008668	📃 View ScanR23008668 MCNEISH Henry Entity Type Item Code R23008668 Year 1963 Description (Additional) New Plymouth - Retired - DIGITISED COPY is available and can be viewed free of charge on LDS FamilySearch website https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1865481. Search by name and refine by date if necessary. Series New Plymouth probate files Agency New Plymouth High Court Accession W4079 Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Open Digital Copy 📃 View Scan Format Text Record Number 396/63 Box Number 118 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1963Wellington	📃 View Scan	1963	Wellington

New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives > Military Personnel Files

ID	Name	Scan	Date	Held At
🌀 R10918888	📃 View ScanR10918888 LE HUQUET, Alfred - WW1 39663 - Army Entity Type Item Code R10918888 Years 1914 - 1918 Series Military Personnel Files Agency New Zealand Defence Force, Personnel Archives Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Open Digital Copy 📃 View Scan Format Text Record Number 0067518 Box Number 11 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1914 - 1918Wellington	📃 View Scan	1914 - 1918	Wellington

Department of Health, Head Office > Health central filing system

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R7028593	R7028593 Ashburton Hospital Board - Ashburton Hospital - Staff - General Entity Type Item Code R7028593 Years 1969 - 1972 Series Health central filing system Agency Health Services Personnel Commission Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Restricted Format Text Record Number 55/23 Box Number 5 Record Number Alt 39663 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1969 - 1972Wellington	1969 - 1972	Wellington
🌀 R17050059	R17050059 International Health - Cook Islands Entity Type Item Code R17050059 Years 1971 - 1972 Series Health central filing system Agency Department of Health, Head Office Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access Restricted Format Text Record Number 334/7/3 Box Number 72 Record Number Alt 39663 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1971 - 1972Wellington	1971 - 1972	Wellington

Accession D72

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R1832519	R1832519 Lease of Railway Reserve at Hampden - J Dick Entity Type Item Code R1832519 Years 1939 - 1981 Agency NZ Railways Corporation, Area Traffic Manager's Office, Dunedin Accession D72 Held At Dunedin repository Item Type Physical Access Open Format Text Record Number 39/663 Box Number 51 Position Reference h Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1939 - 1981Dunedin	1939 - 1981	Dunedin

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Head Office > Multiple number subject files

ID	Name	Date	Held At
🌀 R20768011	R20768011 Organisation of American States: Social Affairs - Education [03/49-05/60] Entity Type Item Code R20768011 Years 1949 - 1960 Series Multiple number subject files Agency Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Head Office Held At Wellington repository Item Type Physical Access May be restricted Format Text Record Number 396/6/3 Box Number 4457 Part Number 1 Former Archives Reference Box 4622 Inquiry Request item from Archives NZ Source 🌀 Archives NZ / CC BY 2.0 1949 - 1960Wellington	1949 - 1960	Wellington

Archives NZ results via API under CC BY 2.0 license

🔍 What is this?

An alternative search system for Archives NZ, inspired by the beautiful simplicity of the beloved Archway system.

🔍 How does it work?

The search results displayed here are sourced directly from the backend of Archives NZ's publically available Collections Search system, in almost exactly the same way that the official website works, but organised and displayed differently.

To start with, you can do a straight-forward search with a few keywords and an optional date range and whether to focus on digitised items. You then have the option to filter the results futher (such as by Series and Format - photos, documents, etc).

You can highlight search keywords in the results by clicking the orange text in 'X results matching {keywords}'

The Advanced Search allows you to search with criteria such as showing only Series or Agency results, records held in a specific location, plus sorting and grouping options.

You can also browse within a Series or Accession by clicking the Series name. Search for records within that Series by using the search box on that page.

Digitised records can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail or the 'Show Scan' links. This embeds a simple viewer directly in the page. You can switch to the official Archives NZ viewer by clicking the 🌀 Archives NZ Source link under the viewer.

🔍 Why is this necessary?

Since it launched in February 2022, Collections Search has been plagued with issues, crashes and downtime, and described by users as "awful", "markedly inferior", a "dog’s breakfast" and "dreadful".

Public complaints about Collections Search have been made by Crown Law, Te Arawhiti, the Archives & Records Association of NZ (ARANZ), the Professional Historians' Association of NZ (PHANZA) and the Treaty Research Officials' Committee (TROC).

Reporting by RNZ's Phil Pennington produced an internal Archives NZ report on Collections Search, describing: "Several significant issues ... slowness, a lack of booking functionality and an external user design that makes accessing archival records dificult. The level of user experience in place now is well below what was in place before the roll out". The report goes on to detail a number of privacy breaches, "continued delays by the vendor" on software improvements, and outages of 29 days in total, out of the ten months since launch.

This alternative search system aims to address some of the shortcomings of Collections Search, such as:

Only 12 search results are displayed at a time
Pages load very slowly
Full name of search result is cut off after a few words
No direct link to scanned documents
Type of record (military records, divorce files, land records, etc) and access status is not shown
No sorting records by date
Advanced Search has very limited functionality
It is almost impossible to browse records within a Series or Accession

🔍 Are my searches private?

Great question! In a nutshell, your searches are visible to me, but anonymous.

Your search queries on this system are recorded in logs for a period of time, without any user-identifiable information associated with them, for debugging purposes.

I have no way of identifying you as a person, or associating your search queries with you.

This website does not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other analytics/tracking software.

🔍 Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have written a few homebrew tools to assist with this research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.