How many records does the archive hold?

63,896 records about Christchurch, every one linked at the provider that keeps the original.

How far back does the archive reach?

1800, the oldest record on file.

Where do the records come from?

30 collections: council archives, Papers Past, DigitalNZ’s partners, cemetery registers, the heritage list itself. The shelf says what exists and where it lives.

Are these documents verified?

They are leads and citations, not evidence, a record says a document exists and where to read it. What a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it; those readings live on the place pages.

Waimate Museum and Archives eHive, the shelf

Every Waimate Museum and Archives eHive record the archive holds about Christchurch, each linked at the provider that keeps the original.

2 records matching 0 of these 2 with their text read

the 1910s
1 Jan 1914
Alexander John Bennington (6/413) Waimate Museum and Archives eHive · Waimate Museum and Archives
1 Jan 1914
Jackson, Albert Edward: (Service No. 27017) Waimate Museum and Archives eHive · Waimate Museum and Archives

Most of these originals are not republishable here, the link goes to the provider that keeps them. A search result is a lead, not evidence: what a document actually says is only claimed once somebody has read it, and those readings live on the place pages.

Waimate Museum and Archives eHive, the shelf

The shelf

Its patch