Heritage
Selwyn Library is the guardian of some pieces of local history and works with local history and genealogy groups to make artifacts and stories of our present and past available for researchers and future generations. High quality copies of items may be available to purchase from the Library at a future date.
The majority of our collections are still being digitised for you to access but we have already gathered together some of our first online collections.
Online Resources for Genealogy and Local History
| Ancestry.Com |  Ancestry is an enormous worldwide resource which contains Birth, Marriage and Death data on millions of people, census data, military records, shipping records and many user-made family trees. You will need to use your library barcode and PIN number to gain access. |
| Paper's Past | Papers Past contains digitised pages from New Zealand newspapers and periodicals published between 1839 and 1932. It covers 52 titles from throughout New Zealand. |
| New Zealand Yesteryears | With 942 Ships, 250 ship photographs, 2434 Passenger Lists, 34 Shipboard diaries, and much more... |
| Births, Deaths and Marriages Online |
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| Family Search | Online birth, marriage, death, census, church and other indexes. |
| England IGI batch numbers | Note that there may some counties here that you don't recognise, occasionally they may actually be names of towns and not of counties. |
| Time Frames | Timeframes is an online database of more than 69,000 images from the Alexander Turnbull Library collections, New Zealand. |
| The Victorian web | Useful for background information on life in the Victorian era |
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Reserve Bank of New Zealand's inflation calculator |