New Zealand indexes

Auckland City Libraries indexes

New Zealand Card Index

This card index covers the Auckland region, with biographical and subject entries. Primarily 20th century, but some earlier content. Closed 1996. Ask at desk for staff to check a name, place or subject. The references are slowly been entered on to Index Auckland.

Index Auckland: local history arts and music

Continues the New Zealand card index from 1996. Auckland region; biographical and subject entries. Mainly regional newspaper sources. 

Auckland Provincial History Index

Auckland region; biographical and subject entries. Compiled in preparation for a provincial history. Mainly 1840s and early 1850s Auckland.  Available on Microfilm.

National Library indexes

Commenced in 1987, with some back indexing. New Zealand and Pacific content. Biographical and subject entries taken from newspapers, magazines, journals and some books. Many historical references. Use at the public computers at any Auckland City Library.

Alexander Turnbull Library Biographies Index
New Zealand wide focus, more than 200,000 biographical entries. Primarily twentieth century, but substantial earlier content as well.  See the companion Guide for fuller details. Continued in part by Index New Zealand (INNZ).

Index to Early Wellington Newspapers 1839-1865
Wellington region focus; biographical and subject entries. See the companion Guide for fuller details.

Index to New Zealand Mail 1871-1907
Lower North Island, upper South Island focus; mainly biographical entries. See the companion Guide for fuller details.

Index to the New Zealand Listener 1939-1987
New Zealand wide; social issues, the arts and literature; biographical and subject entries. See the companion Guide for fuller details.

Other indexes

Hill's Index

(Vol.1 - The New Zealander 1845-1866; Vol.2 - Thames newspapers 1869-1909; Vol.3 The New Zealand Herald 1863-1880; Vol.4 - The Daily Southern Cross 1843-1876)

Covers early Auckland Provincial newspapers; mainly family notice entries, by surname.

Canterbury Public Library Newspaper Indexes

Cover early Canterbury Provincial newspapers (The Press and the Lyttleton Times)

New Zealand Cemetery Records

Early birth, death, and marriage notice indexes for Canterbury (Lyttleton Times), Nelson (Nelson Colonist, Examiner, Weekly News, Evening Mail, and Golden Bay Argus), Otago (Otago Colonist, and Otago Witness) and Wanganui (Wanganui Chronicle, and Wanganui Herald).

Death Notices Index 1886-1946

This is an index of death notices from the New Zealand Herald and some from the Auckland Star, from 1886 to 12 February 1946.   The index cards are filed alphabetically by surname and follow one of three formats:

• Surname, first name(s), date of death, age
  Death clippings, year range, page - this refers to a specific volume of the blue covered Clippings Scrapbook.
• Surname, first name(s), date of death
  New Zealand Herald Monthly Summary, date, page - we strongly advise you to go to the  original death notice, a day or two after the date of death, as the Monthly Summary often contains less information.
• Surname, first name(s), date of death
  New Zealand Herald, date - go directly to the specific issue

Clipping scrapbooks

These start from 16 October 1911, but there are some gaps in the 1914 to 1929 period. The earlier dark blue volumes are just above the index itself, but the unbound volumes continue beyond the cut off date for indexing.

There is absolutely no photocopying from the Death Notice scrapbooks.