Porirua Family History & Genealogy

“Getting the Best out of Papers Past”.
The meeting this month will include a presentation by Emerson Vandy the National Library Digital Services Manager.

The Papers Past website is the National Library’s online archive of New Zealand newspapers, magazines, journals, diaries, letters and parliamentary papers. It lets you search through an ever-growing collection, spanning more than a hundred years of New Zealand history.

Previously you had to trawl through historical records like newspapers by skimming through them one by one on microfilm. Now you can search for the subject you’re interested in across the whole collection. What might have taken many years now takes milliseconds, kicking off a new era of research.

We meet monthly on the second Wednesday. Visitors $2.