Post by NZBC on Dec 2, 2008 21:39:34 GMT 12
fhr.kiwicelts.com/Cemeteries/NZ_Cemetery_Map.html
Purpose
This web page is based on a database of almost 1700 of New Zealand's burial sites (for ease of reference click here for a list of the cemeteries in the database). It includes 'official' cemeteries operated by councils, churches and trusts and others such as private and historical cemeteries, Maori Urupas and lone graves. The aim is to assist anyone with an interest in New Zealand's history, in family history and genealogy, in places in New Zealand or just with a fascination in cemeteries to find the location of the cemetery on the map, the address and ownership / administration of the site and links to relevant web sites with additional information.
I have also included links to the CWGC website for cemeteries containing war graves, as well as links to burial databases and other web sites containg information of interest: photos, plans, articles etc.
As there are a considerable number of cemeteries overseas with New Zealand war graves, I am in the process of including these websites in the database. To search for only the overseas sites add '-Zealand' (without the quotes), eg 'cwgc -zealand', to the search text.
It is also my aim to record the history of some of the historically significant and of the smaller sites which are becoming lost. The small sites are often places where victims of accidents are buried (in New Zealand, often as a result of drownings in rivers or shipwrecks), private cemeteries on farmland, older sites in abandoned towns etc. Many of these sites are not well recorded and often there is now little or no sign of them.
Some of these sites are already documented in my Wiki - KiwiWiki. Links to these pages in KiwiWiki are included in the pop up window which opens when you click on the marker on the map.
Purpose
This web page is based on a database of almost 1700 of New Zealand's burial sites (for ease of reference click here for a list of the cemeteries in the database). It includes 'official' cemeteries operated by councils, churches and trusts and others such as private and historical cemeteries, Maori Urupas and lone graves. The aim is to assist anyone with an interest in New Zealand's history, in family history and genealogy, in places in New Zealand or just with a fascination in cemeteries to find the location of the cemetery on the map, the address and ownership / administration of the site and links to relevant web sites with additional information.
I have also included links to the CWGC website for cemeteries containing war graves, as well as links to burial databases and other web sites containg information of interest: photos, plans, articles etc.
As there are a considerable number of cemeteries overseas with New Zealand war graves, I am in the process of including these websites in the database. To search for only the overseas sites add '-Zealand' (without the quotes), eg 'cwgc -zealand', to the search text.
It is also my aim to record the history of some of the historically significant and of the smaller sites which are becoming lost. The small sites are often places where victims of accidents are buried (in New Zealand, often as a result of drownings in rivers or shipwrecks), private cemeteries on farmland, older sites in abandoned towns etc. Many of these sites are not well recorded and often there is now little or no sign of them.
Some of these sites are already documented in my Wiki - KiwiWiki. Links to these pages in KiwiWiki are included in the pop up window which opens when you click on the marker on the map.