We Need Your Help!

Can You Please Help Us?

• We envisage this project to be a collaborative effort. The scope of this project is enormous, and well beyond the means of a few individuals. (For example, the cost of obtaining death registrations for persons known to have been buried at Norsewood Cemetery would be around $NZ 20,000 — and that's just the ones we know about!) Therefore, we are seeking persons who have traced the ancestors and/or descendants of Norsewood pioneers and are willing to contribute genealogical information for this project. We would like to record Norsewood settlers, plus 2 generations of ancestors, and 3 generations of descendants from the immigrant patriarch and/or matriarch — ie, 6 generations in total. We would also like to be able to record their spouses and spouses' parents.
• We would be pleased to hear from anyone who is able to help with information with this project, particularly if they have supporting documentation. (This would also help speed up the process!) We realise that even small amounts of genealogical information can represent considerable commitments of time and other personal resources, so we plan to give appropriate credits to contributors. If you can help, please contact us.
• A number of graves in the pioneer blocks in the Tararua District Council plan of Norsewood Cemetery are marked “unknown”. If anyone has information about the identity of the persons buried there, we would be pleased to hear from them.
• Can you identify any of these historic Norsewood photographs?
• We are also interested in family social history and photographs of immigrants. (Please scan photos at 300-400dpi.)

We'd Like to Help You, Too!

• If you contribute to this project, we will publish the information, online, and credit you as a contrbutor. We may also be able to put you in contact with other people researching the same family/families. In our experience, this has allowed some contributors to make significant breakthroughs in their research. (In our case, we were contacted by a long lost cousin from the branch of our family that stayed in Norway — very exciting!)
• If you want to see what your family tree might look like, take a look at the LARSEN family, JENSEN family, and BIRKEGAARD (PETERS) family pages. Contributors are listed on the family's 'Table of Contents' page, and among the citations, as appropriate.
• Need help identifying photographs? We'd be happy to publish them on our unidentified historic Norsewood photographs blog.

• Looking for someone you cannot find here? Please contact us, or leave a message in our Forum.