Kiwi Collection

The Kiwi Collection is a flagship product for NZSG and a powerful online research tool for members. It represents the past and ongoing work of hundreds of NZSG members and projects, and your purchase supports that ongoing effort as well as the Society’s other work.

Whether you’re starting out on your family research journey or you’ve made some progress in piecing things together, the Kiwi Collection will introduce you to resources every New Zealand family historian should be using. It’s your go-to for those missing links that can move you through roadblocks and open new avenues of investigation.

Kiwi Collection is the ideal resource to help you compile your research to-do list before you go any further – saving you a lot of time and helping you ‘connect the dots’ across resources.

The Kiwi Collection is available with an internet connection through any browser. There are regular updates to existing collections, periodic addition of new collections, and continuous release of school records and certificates no longer under privacy time restrictions.

Collection Index

The Kiwi Collection is the gateway to a vast, meticulously compiled index of over 16 million records over hundreds of record sets, allowing you to locate the records you need and find exactly where and how to access them.

Each record set is indexed in a way that is most relevant to that record set. For details of what is indexed in NZSG Collections, see each Collection page.

The Kiwi Collection contains hundreds of record sets. Have a look at what you can find!

How to Access the Kiwi Collection

We have three tiers of access:

• Non-members - can access a small fraction of records available by clicking on the 'Kiwi Collection' button below
• NZSG members - can access a greater number of records without subscribing either through their dashboard or the same button below
• Subscribers - can access all records and images. Subscriptions do not automatically renew and are only available to NZSG members

Any record found in the Kiwi Collection which is held by the NZSG Library/FRC can be requested by completing the look-up form. Please ensure you include all details from the Kiwi Collection entry.

How to Subscribe

You will need to be an NZSG member to subscribe.

• Login
• Go to the Shop to purchase your preferred subscription option.
• Please ensure you read the Terms of Reference.
• You can login to the Kiwi Collection at any time by going to your Dashboard under My NZSG and clicking on the "Login to Kiwi Collection" button under Quick Links.

User Information

• Download the Terms of Reference
• Download the User Guide

If you have any problems logging into the Kiwi Collection after you have subscribed it might be because you have a 'filter' assigned to your web browser, causing the Kiwi Collection to be blocked with a pop-up message. Check the address line of your web browser and select 'Allow pop-ups for genealogy.org.nz'. For more help on this, see About the Website.

How Can I Contribute to the Kiwi Collection?

If you have a record set you'd like to donate the Kiwi Collection, please contact kiwicollection@genealogy.org.nz.

If you would like to ask about a project to potentially add to the Kiwi Collection then email the Project Coordinator nzsg.projects@genealogy.org.nz.

Conditions of Use

You are reminded that information from the NZSG Kiwi Collection is available to NZSG members only, without charge. Access to the collections is a major benefit of NZSG membership. Members can access this information on the understanding that it is to be used for their personal research only. You may not pass any information on to non-members, or make access to any collections available to non-members, including adding to online collections, databases and websites.

30/04/2025