Need Research Done For You?

We have a large collection of records about the Hauraki Coromandel District. This covers the area from the top of the Coromandel Peninsula, across the Hauraki Plains to Te Aroha and back to Whangamata. Some of the towns included are Thames, Coromandel, Kuaotunu, Whitianga, Hahei, Tairua, Pauanui, Whangamata, Waihi, Waikino, Karangahake, Paeroa, Hikutaia, Turua, Puriri - and more. Search The Treasury Index below to see if your query name or topic has been indexed yet.

How can I get a document that I found using the database?

• Make note of our library reference under the heading "Source OUI", as well as page numbers and other details. You can either visit The Treasury and ask staff to assist you to find the document, or you can contact us by email or postal service.

How can I find out more about my family?

• If you can’t visit us we have an experienced research team who can do the searching for you. A research fee of $30.00 per hour plus disbursements is charged. We don’t have credit card facilities.

Please let us know if you would like a researcher to follow up your enquiry. Reply with your contact details, some information about your family and any likely references seen in the database search and what you would like researched. We will forward this on to one of our experienced Treasury researchers. They will then contact you directly and advise how payment may be made.

Email us at research.thetreasury@gmail.com

or post to: The Research Officer,
The Coromandel Heritage Trust,
PO Box 75, Thames 3540.

I can’t visit – can The Treasury help me?

• We need contact details (name, address, phone number, email address), and some basic information from you (names, dates, location, occupation, children’s names, church, school) if you have them. This basic information will help ensure we are looking for the correct person and help us avoid giving you information which you already have. If we know which church/school they attended we can check any church/school records we have.


• If there are specific items on the data base which you would like to see, copy and paste the line/s and include that with your request - and also make it clear whether you want your researcher to cover a wider field as well.

• Email us at research.thetreasury@gmail.com
  
  or post to: The Research Officer, The Coromandel Heritage Trust, PO Box 75, Thames 3540.

• Our researchers are chosen because they are experienced in this field. The Coromandel Heritage Trust has a Research Policy in place which The Treasury Researchers are required to follow.

How will The Treasury help me?

• Your researcher will advise you about making payment to The Treasury. When making payment, It is important to include the word RESEARCH so we know what the payment is for.


• Research will start after the first hour’s payment is received. The researchers will do their utmost to help with your enquiry.


• Your researcher will work his/her way through a list of resources checking them off on a worksheet as they go. This list works from the quickest and most likely places to find information down to the slower and less likely. Some of our resources are indexed, others are in alphabetical surname order, which makes it quicker.


• After the first hour of research you will be contacted to see if you want to continue with more research.


• If your researcher knows of online sites or other museums where there might be information which would assist you, they will let you know eg PapersPast.

What is included in the search?

• Firstly: The Pioneer Family Register; the birth, death and marriage records which includes baptisms, intentions to marry, obituaries and eulogies; More About People folders; More About Towns folders; school records; street directories; Hills Index (newspaper articles)
• Then: Pre-1930 Business Folders; Hotel Folders; the Hauraki Mining Register (claims, mines, batteries); the book collection (individual towns); the manuscript collection (early historians); the family books eg ‘The Smith Family – From England to New Zealand’
• And more ….

Remember that ...

• We only search through resources which are held at The Treasury.


• We have a large collection, and takes a surprisingly long time to check through it.


• The researchers are not at The Treasury every open day so it may take some time for them to check everything. There may be other enquiries preceding yours. They will keep in touch if there are delays. Please remember they are volunteers.


• We have had families who we can find NO information on at all. This is disappointing for the researchers as well as for you. New resources are coming in daily. Try again in a year.


• Indexing our resources is an on-going project so don’t forget to make return visits to the data base.


• Information gathered in the course of this research will go into The Treasury Collection and may be used by others, or by The Treasury.

How can you help us?

• We would like to have more about your family to add to our files.

Thank you for your research enquiry and happy hunting