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Identity

How to find personal identity information like marriages, probates and coroners' inquests, census-type archives, and other life data to help trace your family history.

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Life events

Personal identity information such as marriage, divorce and death records — including wills, probates and coroners' inquests.

Searching digitised probates

How to search for digitised probates

Whakapapa search tips

Learn how to use our records to research your whanau, hapū, iwi and whakapapa.

Divorce records – Auckland

A guide to divorce records held in our Auckland archive

Probate files – Auckland

A guide to probate files held in our Auckland archive

Death Duty Registers – Auckland

A guide to death duty registers held in our Auckland archive

Family history – Dunedin

A guide to family history records held in our Dunedin archive

Probate files – Christchurch

Our Christchurch archive holds probate files from the Christchurch, Timaru, Ashburton, Oamaru (1973 onwards), Greymouth, Hokitika, Reefton and Westport courts.