Whats New in the New Zealand Index database?

14 July 2010

Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories
The Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories is a listing of separately-published histories of families with descendants in New Zealand. All of the histories are indexed by author, title, keyword and family names; many are also indexed by founder names; country, county and town of origin; ship on which the family arrived in New Zealand; year of arrival; and region and place of main settlement in New Zealand. Some records also include the surnames of the families into which the first generation of descendants married. The bibliography is compiled by Tony Millett (tony.millett@xtra.co.nz). There are 3350+ records in the collection, which has been added to the New Zealand Index. It is updated periodically by Tony.

8 November 2009

Manukau's Journey - Manukau's Journey is a chronology of significant events in the history of South Auckland or the Counties Manukau region (Otahuhu, Manukau City, Papakura, Franklin). Lists of sources and in some cases pictorial materials are attached. Many thanks to Bruce Ringer from Manukau Public Libraries, for allowing us to bring this new and innovative information resource to New Zealand Index. See more at Manukau's Journey - Introduction

NZ Science updated
4 November 2009

NZ Science updated with over 500 new records from GNS and NIWA. Many thanks to Denise, Kerrie and Kath.

NZ Science updated
20 July 2009

192 new records added to the NZ Science collection. Many thanks to GNS.

NZ Science updated
19 April 2009

887 new records added to the NZ Science collection. Many thanks to NIWA and GNS.

NZ Science updated
21 January 2009

New records from GNS. Thanks to Denise Garbutt and the team at GNS for providing a further 695 records which we loaded into the NZ Science collection of NZ Index today.

Enhancements to NZ Index
7 January 2009

We have completed a migration to new search screens and capabilities. The main change from a user's perspective is simply that they may now Email themselves search results. From a system perspective, the new system allows dynamic load balancing to take place between two search servers - effectively doubling the computing power available for searching. All non-search applications have also been relocated to two new failover servers, further reducing load on the search servers. We are able to add new search servers to this configuration as needed. The search servers are also "mirrored", so that if one fails the other one will be available with the same data immediately.