NZSG Releases Three New Zealand Research Publications

The following announcement was written by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists:

The New Zealand Society of Genealogists has just released three new publications, which you can find on the society's website: www.genealogy.org.nz

The publications are:

NZ Combined Electoral Rolls 1881, 1893, 1896
1881 Electoral Rolls contain over 120,000 records; 1893 contains over 300,000 records and 1896 contains over 330,000 records. By combining these rolls into one database researchers are able to see family connections, by electoral district with the addition of woman and children over the age of 21 from 1893; look at the geographical movement of family members, compare the choice of the women in your family as to whether the hype of the 1893 election (about the ability to vote in a general election) carried over to the 1896 election.
This also includes copies of the electoral maps of the times, published compliments of Alan McRobie, from his NZ Electoral Atlas.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$50.

A Return of Freeholders of NZ Oct 1882
This is a searchable PDF which gives the names, addresses and occupations of owners of land throughout New Zealand at that time. It includes the area and value in counties and the value in boroughs and town districts.
N.B. Maori land ownership is omitted in the original records.
Compiled by the NZ Property Tax Department from Assessment Rolls, these records were published by the Government in 1884.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$25

The Jim Pearce Index Obituaries reported in the Evening Post 1929-1977
This collection was assembled between 1927 and 1977 by librarians working for the Evening Post in Wellington New Zealand. Following the merger of the Evening Post and the Dominion newspapers in 2002 the collection was gifted to the Wellington City Libraries by Fairfax (NZ) Ltd. The Kilbirnie Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc indexed this collection over a long period on a voluntary basis to produce this index. The Index is searchable by surname, given names or year and includes other people named in the obituary.
This CD ROM is available for NZ$25

Note: Anyone ordering from overseas will need to pay postage and packaging, which is free to anyone in New Zealand.