These websites are a good place to start researching your family history. The sites are divided by region:
Major sites
Cyndi’s list of genealogy websites provides over 270, 000 links to other genealogy and family history sites.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) site searches across several genealogy records and databases including Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index, Pedigree Resource File, the U.S. 1880 and British and Canadian 1881 census indexes and Record Search Pilot.
You can use the RootsWeb surname list to search over 1.2 million surnames entries.
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com
You can use RootsWeb’s World Connect to search across more than 575 million names.
Major genealogical and historical research subscription site including England and Wales 1841-1901 census indexes and images, as well as Scotland 1841-1901 census indexes and transcriptions.
Ancestry Library Edition is available on public computers at our Thorndon Quay reading room in Wellington. It is also available at most local public libraries in New Zealand.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has the personal and service details and places of commemoration for 1.7 million Commonwealth Forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.
New Zealand
https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
New Zealand Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records online indexes.
New Zealand Society of Genealogists.
Archives New Zealand. Archway online index to New Zealand Government Archives.
http://marvin.otago.ac.nz/marriages
Alan Varcoe’s New Zealand marriage index 1840-1956.
http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/
Online history and genealogy resources, including passenger arrivals Auckland 1838-1886, 1909-1921.
Approximately 267, 000 names from electoral rolls and street directories for Otago and Southland.
New Zealand history online.
Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Over 3, 000 biographies.
http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/maori/guides/whakapapa_guide.htm
University of Auckland’s Whakapapa page.
http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/
Biographical directory of priests ordained before 1931 who served in New Zealand, Polynesia, Melanesia and part of Papua New Guinea.
http://www.nzetc.org/corpora/WH2.html
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, includes text of war histories.
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/FamilyHistory/
Includes family history guides, digitised Canterbury Police Gazette 1863-1876, list of online New Zealand cemeteries.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Millions of pages of full-text, digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932.
Subscription database. The New Zealand Index includes The Bibliography of Published New Zealand Family Histories listing 3, 465 separately-published histories of families with descendants in New Zealand. This bibliography is also available on FindNZ articles.
Pacific Islands
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacifgw
Pacific Islands genealogical pages.
Great Britain and Ireland
United Kingdom and Ireland genealogical information pages.
http://www.ancestorsonboard.com/
Long distance voyages from the British Isles 1890-1960. Indexes free, pay for images and transcriptions.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
The National Archives catalogue, DocumentsOnline with access to over 1, 000, 000 PCC wills 1384—1858, Service Registers of Royal Naval Seamen and World War One Medal Cards, online research guides, TNA Global Search.
Society of Genealogists.
Civil Registration index information for England and Wales. The FreeBMD Database currently contains over 178 million records.
10.3 million catalogue entries from 418 record offices and other repositories.
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History online, core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles, includes Victoria County histories and Survey of London.
Statutory Registers for births deaths, marriages 1855-2006, Old Parish Registers 1538-1854, census indexes and images 1841-1901, wills and testaments 1513-1901.
Scottish Archive Network. 52 Scottish archives.
http://www.britishorigins.com and http://www.irishorigins.com
Subscription sites. English and Welsh section has nearly 20 million names from 1442-1872, including England and Wales census indexes and images for 1841, 1861 and 1871. Irish section includes index and images of Griffith's Valuation of Ireland, the most important database for Irish genealogical research prior to the 20th century.
Origins Total Access is available on public computers in our Thorndon Quay reading room. Access through Home Page, E-Resources, Databases.
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/
1911 census of Ireland with indexes and images.
Australia
Free access to full text historic Australian newspapers, 1803 to 1954.
http://australia.gov.au/topics/law-and-justice/births-deaths-and-marriages-registries
Births, deaths and marriages registries of Australia. Many have online indexes.
New South Wales historical birth, death and marriage indexes. Births 1788-1909, deaths 1788-1979, marriages 1788-1959.
Includes some assisted immigration to New South Wales indexes plus convict indexes.
http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/
Mariners and ships in Australian waters, indexes unassisted passenger and crew arrivals to NSW 1845-1922, complete 1845-1879, access to original lists.
Indexes unassisted immigration from British, foreign and New Zealand ports to Victoria 1852-1923, British assisted immigrants 1839-1871, outward passengers to interstate, UK, NZ and foreign ports 1852-1901. The Family History Collection holds on microfiche the original unassisted British and foreign passenger lists 1852-1923, New Zealand passenger lists 1852-1923, assisted passenger lists 1839-1871. More information may be found there.
http://www.archives.tas.gov.au
Archives Office of Tasmania. Includes Index to Tasmanian Convicts 1804-1853, Index to Departures 1817-1867, Colonial Tasmanian Family Links Database, Index to Tasmanian Wills, Index to Divorces.
http://www.archives.qld.gov.au
Queensland State Archives. Online indexes include Wills 1857-1900, teachers 1860-1904, assisted immigration 1848-1912.
http://www.nationalarchives.ie
National Archives of Ireland’s transportation records database Ireland to Australia.
376, 000 digitised service records of those who served with the Australian army in World War 1.
Australian War Memorial biographical databases - Roll of Honour, Commemorative Roll, First World War Nominal Roll, Boer War Nominal Roll, Honours and Awards (Gazetted).
Index to 2.297, 887 million death notices from 168 Australian newspapers.
United States of America
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org
Search the index of more than 22 million immigrants, passengers and crew who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York 1892-1924.
