New Zealand Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

Sometimes the determining factor was religion, where a congregation would move almost en masse to a new country to escape either real or perceived persecution, or in an attempt to more fully live their religion in a country not yet bound by religious tradition. In some cases, immigration was assisted by a company which needed workers to develop and work the land that the company had purchased. Whatever the reason for emigrating, there were always records generated. Whether those records survived the ravages of time is not always certain.

=== Passenger Lists ===

While these books can help determine at least an approximate time period in which an ancestor may have arrived in New Zealand, they do not always give the name of the ship, and the exact date and place of disembarkation. Without these details, it is virtually impossible to search original or filmed passenger lists.

http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/onlinelists.html

Additional information about finding the origins of immigrant ancestors is given in the [[Tracing Immigrant Origins]] research outline.