Having recently had reason to do some research in the online births, marriages and deaths of Victoria, Australia, I was thrilled to see yet more vital records are now available online from that part of the world. New Zealand's Ministry of Internal Affairs announced today the launch of a new Web site that offers online access to New Zealand's historical birth, death and marriage records. To protect the privacy of living people, the following historic data is available:
- Births that occurred at least 100 years ago
- Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago
- Marriages that occurred at least 80 years ago
- Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago, or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago
Searches are free, and certificates can either be purchased as a digital image to be downloaded immediately, or as a paper certificate sent through the mail.
Official registrations of births and deaths began in New Zealand in 1848, while marriage registration began in 1856. The Web site also has some earlier records, such as church and place registers, dating back as early as 1840.
Thanks! This is very timely for me, as I am looking for relatives in New Zealand and Australia. GenBirdwood
Thank you for your nice posting
Bathmate
Re N.Z. would like to be able to purchase, view, download, & print digital images of records, like Victoria, but hopefully not as expensive. Victoria is too expensive. i.e. Victoria Aus. Also would like to be able to identify req’d record more precisely by knowing country of birth and parents names prior to final purchase, as it is too expensive to discover that you have just bought a record for the wrong person. Please refine your searches to display country/place of origin, fathers name, mothers name, prior to final purchase. Thank You.
I agree with Hennessy
Your links don’t work.
ditto @Pat Falcon. The links don’t work.
I also can not open the link.
This is an old blog post and the link was apparently changed since I wrote it. I have updated the link in the post for the current site. Hope this helps!
The links still do not work
Dear Sir/Madam, I would like to get birth certificate of Brian Knobbs of New Zealand.
My Name is dennis fail, I would like to know if my real father is still alive?
My Friend Glenys fail has a computer, So we have internet use to try and look up details. I was born in Wangarie in New Zealand but im not sure about my Real Father.
His name is mr Brian Knobbs. Can you please let me know by email how I can look him up Please
Just google DIA (department of internal affairs) NZ and put in the word birth marriage deaths into the search also. Very easy.
As a Kiwi this information release is great.
However the date limitation for release (Births 100 years, Marriages 80 years, Deaths 50 years) is a little frustrating.
Cheers
Rich
New Zealand is very lax in putting bdm on line – 100 years for a birth, anything after this date (14 Jan 1913) is pretty much unobtainable, same with marriages, the bureaucracy is parsimonious about giving details out of dead people. Kiwis are incredibly scared of anyone knowing who they are or what they were!