Missing Friends and Relatives in New Zealand.

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Currie
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Missing Friends and Relatives in New Zealand.

Post by Currie » Wed Sep 26, 2012 5:01 pm

Missing Friends and Relatives in New Zealand.

I’ve been asked to put in a plug for the Missing Friends columns in the New Zealand newspaper archives at PapersPast.

These can be advertisements inserted by local people or copied from U.K. newspapers, and are usually trying to find relatives or friends who possibly went to N.Z. but have not been heard from.

The hundred or so results you can see here are just those published in the Auckland Star in the 1890s, and will give you an idea of the usual format. http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... +friends--

So if you are missing a relative, suspect they may have gone to N.Z., and Google doesn’t help, focus your search a bit better by going to PapersPast. You may find they have been missing a lot longer than you imagined.

All the best,
Alan

Alan SHARP
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Re: Missing Friends and Relatives in New Zealand.

Post by Alan SHARP » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:36 pm

Greetings.

Yet again Alan, another example of what a gem New Zealand's PapersPast can be, even for those on the other side of the world.

I rather like this local one. Hopefully it is historic enough that we are permited a little chuckle

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... iends%22--

Alan SHARP.

EDIT: Hopefully repaired the link.

Currie
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Re: Missing Friends and Relatives in New Zealand.

Post by Currie » Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:56 pm

I know that man! It’s Great-Great-Uncle Basil. They always said he was a bit strange.

Alan