WHeres my Father.?

[KiwiPeter]

http://www.thatsnice.nz/family/certwalter.jpg
http://www.thatsnice.nz/family/certmine.jpg


Opps sorry about the size of those picts I have changed them to Links

[TwiggyTree]

Also note that KiwiPeter has another thread here which may help with elimination etc https://www.fhug.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17554

[TwiggyTree]

KiwiPeter

Is there a chance that you have combed through the births microfiche for your father's birth in at least the approximate area for the few years it may have been?

Totally a long shot, meaning that you'd need to note possible variations etc but it is interesting that on both your, and your brother's birth certificates that he is at least in New Zealand.

Twiggy

[Janette]

This looks like the grave of the couple mentioned in the link Twiggytree posted

https://www.napier.govt.nz/services/napier-cemeteries/cemetery-database/?rid=113977

Cheers Janette

[KiwiPeter]

KiwiPeter

Is there a chance that you have combed through the births microfiche for your father's birth in at least the approximate area for the few years it may have been?

Totally a long shot, meaning that you'd need to note possible variations etc but it is interesting that on both your, and your brother's birth certificates that he is at least in New Zealand.

Twiggy

How would I get access to births microfiche??

Yes he would had to have been in New Zealand at least 9 months before our birth, one would have hoped. He was here in 1962 onwards for 100% sure.

[mckha489]

What sort of accent did he have?

[KiwiPeter]

This looks like the grave of the couple mentioned in the link Twiggytree posted

https://www.napier.govt.nz/services/napier-cemeteries/cemetery-database/?rid=113977

Cheers Janette

Unfortunately that promising link ran out prematurely. It did start looking very very promising.

[TwiggyTree]

Microfiche are often held at libraries in New Zealand and genealogical archives (all now in lockdown).  You need a lot of patience to methodically go through each year, and each page of the birth register to look for names.  Alongside the microfiche the facility will usually have index books that help you figure out which area that birth took place in and which part of the year.

Conversely if you look at the book first for the reference range of numbers for each quarter for that area you can 'notice' these in your search of the microfiche.

I wish I had access to one of these indexes (or a library) to show you but from memory it goes something like:

1923
Place        1stQ   2ndQ  3rdQ  4thQ
Te Kuiti      927    1256   1569   1895

These are the starting record numbers for all the births in one particular year for that area.  Each year these increment as more births take place in NZ.  The upper range of the births in that area is deduced from the next line for the next area (ie where the next area starts their registration numbers).

I do hope I have made some sense.

[TwiggyTree]

I wonder if the local historic society in the area your father is purported to have been born may have something to help you?  Perhaps even some personal knowledge through living locals?

http://www.nzhistoricalsocieties.org.nz/members/feilding.htm