TE REO Vol. 8 Issue #4 NOVEMBER/NOEMA 2001 Special Interest Group No.76 of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. Official Publication of the Maori Interest Group http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maoripage/index.htm N E W S L T R NZSG MAORI INTEREST GROUP TE REO Volume 8. Issue 4 NOVEMBER/NOEMA 2001 MIG CONTACT INFORMATION ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE SECRETARY SECRETARY Mrs. Brenda JOYCE 17 Peterhouse Street Tawa Wellington, WTN 6006. NEW ZEALAND. E-mail: [email protected] CONVENOR Mrs. Colleen PETRICEVICH 28 Cassino Street North Shore City Auckland, AKD1309. NEW ZEALAND. E-mail: [email protected] TREASURER Mrs. Brenda JOYCE [See address details above] JOINT Mrs. Harete PHILLIPS NEWSLETTER 28 Taheke Road, RD 4 EDITORS Okere Falls, Rotorua, BOP 3221. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. Bruce MATHERS P.O. Box 867 Park Ridge Brisbane, QLD 4125. AUSTRALIA. E-mail: [email protected] RESEARCH Mrs. Heather WEBBER OFFICER PO Box 8795 Symonds Street Auckland, AKD 1035. NEW ZEALAND. E-mail: [email protected] When corresponding with officers of the MIG always quote your NZSG Member- ship Number and include a LARGE Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope [SSAE] with your letter if a reply is expected. PAGE 3 TE REO Material in TE REO may not always reflect the views of the NZSG, MIG, their Editors and Office Bearers. IN THIS ISSUE New MIG Web Address 4 Central Registry Fee Increase 4 Alternative Sources – NZSG 5 Editorials 7 Convenor’s Report 11 MIG Subscriptions 12 Where to Write 13 Iwi CD 13 Oamaru AGM 2002 14 Computer Virus Warning 14 Do the Right Thing! 15 Researching Bay of Islands or the Hokianga 15 Books 16 MIG Badges 16 Missing Maori Months 17 Geographic Areas 17 Web Site 20 STOP PRESS! Can You Help? 28 Institutional Members 36 Can you Help/Info Wanted 38 Members Whakapapa Interests 40 Happy Birthday! 42 Christmas Hangi 42 Submission Form – Centre Pullout -- PAGE 4 TE REO Please have all material for the next newsletter [February 2002] to the MIG Sec- retary before 25th January 2002 NEW MIG WEB ADDRESS Below is a message as recently received from Netscape – our MIG web space provider. Attention Netscape Web Site Members Alert -- Editing Ends Nov. 17 ”Starting November 17, 2001 you will no longer be able to use the Site Maker and File Manager tools, or FTP (File Transfer Protocol) offered on Netscape Web Sites. You will still be able to view your pages until Feb- ruary 2002. Because of this, we're asking all Web Site members to move pages and content to the new and improved Netscape My Webpage.” This basically means that Netscape are upgrading their system and our MIG web address has changed and will no longer be available after February 2002 at the previously advised address. So please update your bookmarks/favourites with the below NEW MIG WEB SITE ADDRESS; http://mywebpage.netscape.com/maoripage/index.htm I am sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but this is totally beyond my control (we are totally at the mercy of Netscape). However, hopefully with Net- scape upgrading their system, this will now solve some problems members may have experienced in accessing the MIG site previously. FEE INCREASE CENTRAL REGISTRY NZ BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES (Continued on page 5) PAGE 5 TE REO (Continued from page 4) Most members will already have heard about the enormous fee increase Central Registry implemented in early October regarding NZRGO BMD Certificates and more importantly BMD “photocopies’ (for genealogical purposes). BMD PHOTOCOPIES (*A4 Micrographic copies) have increased from $9.00 each to $30.00 each – something approaching a 240% increase! ----- Original Message ----- From: Vicki Pittams <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Fee increase to NZ BDM > To everybody > As of today Wed 3 October 2001, the cost of getting either a full certificate or even a photocopy is now $30:00 New Zealand. > Big jump from $21:00 for a certificate and $9:00 for a photocopy. > No warning, no hint of what benefits there will be as to the price rise. > So if you are looking at researching in NZ ..........???? > So send a message to George Hawkins the Minister of Internal Affairs. > [email protected] > Vicki in NZ >______________________________ ALTERNATIVE SOURCES - NZSG “The NZSG Council is preparing a response to these increases. Council is also preparing information on alternative sources of information so that members can continue their family history research in the most economical manner. The first version is now available < http://www.genealogy.org.nz> Researching in New Zealand - $30 Certificates!!! What are our alternatives sources??? (Continued on page 6) PAGE 6 TE REO (Continued from page 5) Upset about the increase in fees from the Registrar Generals Office (RGO) – you don’t need to be as there are other alternative sources to find information about your family. · Birth Death & Marriage Information · NZSG Certificates Collection · NZSG Matching Brides and Grooms · NZSG Index Lookup Service · Pre 1855 Marriage Collection · Pedigree Collection · NZ First Families Collection · Strays and More Collection · NZSG Family Research Directories · The NZ Genealogist · NZSG Website · GEN-GUIDE 101 - A Beginner’s Guide to Family History Research in NZ · Microfiche · Other Sources to locate information Newspapers Church Records Intentions to Marry School Records NZ Probates Electoral Rolls” For those MIG members with Internet access, keep an eye on the NZSG website for the latest developments at http://www.genealogy.org.nz. While other mem- bers will be kept informed through the Magazine. New Zealand Society of Genealogists P O Box 8795, Symonds St, Auckland 1035, New Zealand. Phone 64-9-570 4248. Fax 64-9-570 4238. PAGE 7 TE REO EDITORIALS A FEW WORDS FROM HARETE: Tena Koutou Katoa Thank you for all your contributions to the "Te Reo", the first issue of our new look newsletter. The MIG Website that has been created by our web-master has been a great advantage. This facility has proven to be beneficial to members wishing to search for their whakapapa. Our web-master stated the advent of the Internet has been a great help to family historians but it cannot always replace the "hands on" approach. Please keep in touch with our Secretary, Brenda, with your news, views, new resources, helpful hints, useful websites and research queries. Harete Philips. A FEW WORDS FROM BRUCE: surely also have second thoughts about ordering a $30.00 *A4 photo- Kia ora. As already detailed above, copy! Especially when these photo- genealogy in New Zealand has re- copies are not even legal documents, ceived a severe blow in recent weeks but for inspection purposes only! when Central Registry increased the price of an *A4 photocopy I cannot see why any member would (micrographic copy) of a Birth, Death now purchase an *A4 photocopy for or Marriage entry from $9.00¢ to a genealogy from Central Registry when massive $30.00¢. BMD Certificates for exactly the same amount of money fared no better, these too also now they can purchase a full Birth, Death or cost $30.00¢ each. Marriage Certificate – a ‘legal’ docu- ment, certainly with a lot more colour I for one am not ashamed to confess about it! I know “photocopies” give us that I was (and still am) extremely an- a bit more information (and even in gry when I first heard of these incredi- one instance gave me additional hand- bly insane increases. Like many oth- written notes in the margin) and lessen ers on a fixed low income, it is now the chance of further (typing) errors impossible for me to even consider during the transcribing process than purchasing an *A4 photocopy for gene- actual Certificates, but given the alogy – I must hasten to add, that even our more affluent members would (Continued on page 8) PAGE 8 TE REO (Continued from page 7) swered my email to him, but instead he choice between a $30.00¢ *A4 photo- instructed the Registrar-General to copy or a $30.00¢ full Certificate, the respond to me on his behalf. I have choice in my opinion is obvious! included a copy of this email from the Registrar-General below, for the inter- I posed the question to the Minister of est of all our members. Internal Affairs Mr. George HAWKINS through my email to him dated 11 Oct that, was this his actual intention, to do away with their “photocopying” service all together in lieu of “Certificates.” Unfortunately, the Minister never an- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: BDM Fees 3357 Dear Bruce Mathers On behalf of the Honourable George Hawkins, Minister for Internal Affairs, thank you for your email concerning changes to Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) fees. The Minister appreciates that this is an important issue for you, and has asked me to reply to you directly. You have expressed your concern about the increase in the fee for a micrographic printout. The department acknowl- edges the increase is significant. The new fee covers the cost of providing this service now and also makes some con- tribution towards new products and services. A micrographic is a full printout of a birth, death or mar- riage registration record. It may be copied from a paper based record, a microfilm record, or from one of the images that are currently being captured as we convert paper based records to electronic formats. Over recent years the major- ity of printouts have been sourced from the microfilm re- cords, hence the term micrographic.