Online Resources
Ancestry.com is a global resource for people researching family histories. With more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases, Ancestry.com includes records from the several countries’ Census; military records; court, land and probate records; vital and church records; directories; passenger lists and more. These collections are continuously expanding. It also has guides and templates for constructing a family tree from scratch.
Access to Ancestry.com is via computers in the Whakatane Library only. Click this link if you are accessing it in the library now.
Gale Databases
include encyclopedia and magazine articles including biographies, history, book reviews, hot issues and much more.
The Gale Databases now include the RDS suite of databases - a collection of business information databases. They are useful when searching for broad profiling information about companies or industries.
After you click on the database, you must enter your library barcode number.
include a collection of content from Australia and New Zealand magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books.
There are also general reference publications dating as far back as 1975, biographies, primary source documents, and a collection of photos, maps and flags.
if you are accessing from within the Library.
After you click on the database, you must enter your library barcode number.
Note: The EBSCO databases require a mininum of Internet Explorer 5.5 or Netscape 7.x.
