People are time poor and communicating differently. These days, I think females have high standards when it comes to finding a boyfriend - like Sex and the City. We just accepted people for what they were. The new generation has a much more specific idea of what happiness and love look like. I ask Rosie about anxiety, pointing out that the younger generation is more anxious than previous, due to climate change, housing shortage, lack of pay rises, political unrest and social media. In my opinion, you have to see every generation has had its difficulties. It is not so clear-cut. For instance, we might have had cheaper houses but we had to pay far more interest.
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Rosie certainly has seen a few things occur between the opposite sex over her time and drawn some opinions. She thinks that the women have changed, rather than the guys, that young women tend to look the same as one another, and that the art of flirting has diminished. She also has her challenges with men. The idea we know it all might not be perfect. The first step is the client getting to know the matchmaker and the matchmaker getting to know them.
I find people I think will be suitable. We simply need healthy, loving relationships. People are more accessible in Wellington as a city, rather than if you were in the country. It has an intellectual base and is a university town. People live here because they want to be here, not because they have to be. So as a city it is a good place to go out on dates. Familiarity has kept Rosie in Wellington.
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I love that I can easily connect. Rosie's website for her business is here. Rosie Bowie, a modern matchmaker, was born, educated, raised a family and started a business in Wellington. For more guidance on using our collections, use our guide to the First World War. New Zealand History. Sometimes you may have a lot of information about your ancestor but not know where they lived during certain periods.
There are a number of ways to find this type of information including electoral rolls and directories, both of which are available on site at the Library. Another subscription database is Findmypast. Note that some of the signed sheets were lost so there are many more women in the Electoral roll than the Suffrage petition. We hold a complete set of electoral rolls from to the present day, along with habitation indexes, which allow you to search by address, available from the s onwards.
We also hold quite a number of New Zealand directories in a variety of formats, such as Wises, Stones, and other early directories and almanacs. Telephone directories are another way to locate an address. We hold a large number of directories from the s onwards, and these vary by place and year. Ask staff for assistance. Archives New Zealand also has a large collection of telephone directories up to listed at the end of the Personal identity guide.
Electoral rolls and directories list where people live, and provide good starting points. Archives NZ has a research guide summarising land records for Wellington.
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You can search the Deeds index, which tracks transfers of ownership. You can also search the index by names of registered owners, found in the Nominal Index. You may also find mentions of changes of ownership in probate records.
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Some regional and city councils like Wellington City Archives hold rate books, building records, etc. The historical deposited plans, or title plans, are likely to be of most interest to researchers, using a street address search. To ensure that you have sufficient time with the resource, an hourly booking can be made in advance.
Start by being specific, and try typing in the house number and street name. If you get no results it may be because the record information is not detailed enough. In this case expand your search by using just the street name or suburb. You will likely get results that are not totally relevant, but there may be some panoramas or aerial views that include your house. Although not everyone made it into the newspaper, it has long been common journalistic practice to describe a person by their occupation, and sometimes by their workplace.
There is no centralised record listing where people worked. The electoral rolls, directories, and war records list occupations. You may be able to use this information to continue searching other collections or indexes. Archives New Zealand holds a number of government employment records you may find useful, however some records still have access restrictions. The section on teachers in their education guide is also helpful.
Archives also holds registers of occupations that had to be licensed or registered , such as law practitioners, barmaids, as well as liquor licensees. It also has medical, nursing and midwifery registers, and marine records. Sometimes, records are lodged with local archives. Other places to look include the New Zealand Gazette Archive — which is available on a PC in our reading room.
For more recent years the Department of Internal Affairs publish online a searchable database of gazette notices from onwards. The AtoJs online —, Session 1 [ Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives , sometimes referred to as AJHR] digitised volumes are useful for finding all kinds of information including bankruptcies, sheepholder returns, lists of teachers from c to , reports, returns, etc. Another version called Parliamentary Papers is available within Paperspast.
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Newspapers are a great resource for turning up information on your ancestors. More and more newspapers are being digitised and made available online. Papers Past covers the years to and includes over newspapers and periodicals from all regions of New Zealand. Those that aren't yet online can be ordered onsite via the National Library catalogue in the general reading room where you can either scan articles to a USB stick or print them off.
Only a very small number are available in hard copy, in the Katherine Mansfield reading room. The best way to search online newspapers is by trying different combinations of first name and surname, as well as by initials, as personal names may be recorded in many different ways.
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The National Library has a lot of resources that can help you with this, but it usually means you will need to come to our reading room in Wellington. We hold a large number of newspaper collections, lots of guides, and major family history resources in various formats for Australia and the UK.
We also have some resources and research guides for other countries and nationalities. We also regularly add new specialist-advice books to our collections so it is worthwhile checking back to see if we have any new resources. Many other libraries also subscribe so check your local library before heading into our reading room.
We also have subscriptions to Findmypast. FamilySearch is a free genealogical resource that helps you access millions of records from around the world, using the extensive historical collections of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints LDS. First try searching on the FamilySearch catalog to find a digitised record you want to examine. The best way to find a record number is to search by place, and then drill down to a specific set of records.