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New Zealand ProvincesGoal 4: Learn about New Zealand emigration and immigration.
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ALearn about New Zealand emigration and immigration.
- Learn about New Zealand emigration and immigration.
FS—Wiki: New Zealand Emigration and Immigration
RT—They Came on Boats: 19th and 20th Century Immigration to New Zealand—15:36 - 2021
- Learn about early migration to New Zealand.
RT—Learning from New Zealand Passenger Lists—32:07
- Learn about emigration from the United Kingdom to New Zealand.
Emigration and Emigrants - Access the
Migration Research Guide on the Archives New Zealand site. - Access the Immigration page of the Auckland Libraries site.
- Ships & Passengers: Learn about New Zealand passenger lists.
RT—Learning from New Zealand Passenger Lists—13:21
- Naturalization: For naturalization information, access the Citizenship Research Guide on the Archives New Zealand site.
- Jewish: Explore the Jewish Genealogy Encyclopedia for Jewish resources in New Zealand.
Records
- Explore the Immigrant Ships site. Select a Volume, then choose New Zealand as the departure or arrival location.
- Explore passenger lists for New Zealand-bound ships.
- For passenger list information, access Searching Passenger Lists on the Archives New Zealand site.
Exercises
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for immigration records. Then use the learnings for searches for an ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
Fat Boo sailed to New Zealand in the 1900's. Use the "FS: New Zealand, Naturalization, Passenger lists 1839-1973" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- When was Fat Boo's departure date?
- What was his occupation?
- What is his nationality?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Fat" as the first name and "Fat" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click the document icon for Fat Boo.
- Read the information in the center column.
- Click on View Original Document for nationality.
- His ship sailed on 13 Apr 1926.
- He was a sailor's cook.
- He is Chinese.
(Contributed by Brent Bunker )
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