Anyone is welcome to go along and enjoy an absorbing and interesting hobby. Meetings are held at Parkview Community Lounge, 75 Queenspark Drive, Parklands on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7.30pm February-November, and on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 10am February-November. The Branch Library in the above address is open Thursday 10am – 3pm and Saturday 2 – 4pm and has Computers; CD-ROM indexes; Canterbury School records, local parish registers & cemetery transcripts; NZ Birth, Deaths and Marriages; Electoral rolls, and many other historical records.

For the Riccarton Branch email:riccartongenealogy@hotmail.com. Based at the Upper Riccarton library, 71 Main South Road.