You can search Manukau's journey - a Manukau timeline by browsing chronologically (in date order) or by using keywords or phrases, either on their own or in combination with dates.
- Browse
- Quick search
- Advanced search
- Keyword search
- Search by date
- Search for images
- Alternative spellings
- Results
Browse
The decades or periods covered by Manukau's journey - a Manukau timeline are listed on the right-hand side of the home page. Simply click on the required period and scroll through the results. Return to the home page to browse a different period.
Quick search
Quick search searches for single words or phrases or combinations of words and phrases (keywords). Simply go to the home page and fill in the search box at the top right hand corner of the page.
Advanced search
Advanced search allows searches for words and phrases to be combined with searches for place names and/or dates and/or types of images.
^ top ^Keyword search
Keyword searches cover the text of entries, sources and captions, but not text within maps or facsimile documents.
Keyword searches can be done in both quick search and advanced search.
Keyword search tips
1. Searches may include words, phrases, dates, or any combination of these.
Note: capital letters may be ignored.
2. A keyword search brings up all entries which include the exact word or phrase used:
- Howick (finds events which include 'Howick')
- Howick Borough Council (finds events which include the phrase 'Howick Borough Council' but not those events where these words do not appear together, as in ‘Howick became a borough council').
3. When selecting keywords or phrases, omit articles and prepositions (‘a', ‘the', ‘and', ‘to', etc.) unless these form part of the exact phrase required.
4. In general, use specific words and phrases and avoid generic words such as ‘history':
- compare the results of a search for Alfriston with a search for Alfriston history.
5. To search for more than one word and/or phrase (AND) use an ampersand (&):
- dairy & factory
- Great South Road & bridge.
6. To search for stems of words use an asterisk (*). The asterisk can be used within one or more words in a phrase.
- brown* (finds events which include 'Brown' or 'Browne' etc.)
- tele* (finds events which include ‘telegraph', ‘telephone' and/or ‘television')
- Howick Town* (finds events which include 'Howick town', 'Howick Town Board', 'Howick Township', etc.)
7. Search for alternative spellings or phrases (OR) by using a slash (/):
- mcdonald/macdonald
- Howick Town Council/Howick Borough Council
- Howick/Pakuranga (finds events which include either ‘Howick' or ‘Pakuranga').
Note: Some searches on Manukau's journey - a Manukau timeline automatically include alternative spellings, superseded place names, and alternative names or phrases. [find out more...]
8. Exclude words or phrases (NOT) by using an exclamation mark (!):
- Howick! Pakuranga (finds events which include ‘Howick', but not events that also include ‘Pakuranga').
9. Proximity searches: find words near one another by using w# or p#.
- Papatoetoe w3 council (finds events which include the word 'Papatoetoe' and the word 'council' within three words before or after)
- Papatoetoe p3 city (finds events which include the word 'Papatoetoe' and the word 'city' within three words before).
10. Narrow complex searches down by using parentheses ( ) to create groups of words or phrases that you wish to search together. This makes sense when combining OR (/) with AND (&) or NOT (!) searches. Note: that the order of search takes place from left to right but search instructions within parentheses are undertaken before search instructions outside parentheses.
- (superm*/shop*/mall*) & (Papatoetoe/Howick) (finds events which include supermarket(s) and/or shop(s) or shopping and/or or mall(s) in Papatoetoe and/or Howick).
11. Combine all or any of the above strategies :
- Manukau & (harbour!city)
- (dairy*/creamer*/factor*) & Drury
- (park*/reserve*/domain*) & (Howick!Pakuranga)
- (retail*/shop*/superm*/mall*) & (Manurewa!Papatoetoe).
12. Combine all or any of the above strategies with date searching (the advanced search option is the best way of doing this).
Search by date
1. Fill in the date boxes with any combination of day, month, year:
- 6 January 1863
- 6 January
- January
- 1863.
2. Search for a range of dates by using a colon (:) and/or an asterisk (*). Note: this option is available for ranges of days or years but not for ranges of months:
- 1914:1918 (finds events between the years 1914 and 1918)
- 197* (finds events between 1970 and 1979)
- 1926:193* (finds events between 1926 and 1939)
- 1:7 January 2000 (finds events for the first seven days of January 2000).
3. Search for events before or after specified dates by using < or > symbols:
- < January 1963 (finds events before January 1963)
- > January 1963 (finds events after January 1963).
Search for images
- A number of events have images attached. These may include copies of maps, photographs, plans, posters, paintings, sketches, diagrams, and/or documents in either published or manuscript format.
- You can browse these images chronologically by clicking on 'Images' at the top of each page.
- Image searches can be done as a keyword search or an image search.
- Alternatively, you can combine a keyword and/or date search with the type of material required. Use any one or more of the following terms: Diagram; Map; Photo*; Painting; Plan; Poster; Sketch; Text. Note that posters and documents may in some cases incorporate maps. 'Text' refers to documents, which may include copies of or extracts from books, brochures, programmes, other items of ephemera, newspapers, manuscripts and official publications.
Sample searches:
- Howick & photo*
- Howick & aerial photo*
- Mangere & (poster/photo*/map)
- Howick Town District & (map & 192*)
- Manukau County & act & text
- (Wiri & church*) & (sketch/photo*)
- South Auckland Courier & diagram
- Thumbnails are included in the results. Click on the words 'Large image' to get a fuller display.
- Some maps may be displayed in segments, and some documents may be displayed page-by-page.
Alternative spellings
- Some searches on Manukau's journey - a Manukau timeline automatically include alternative spellings, superseded place names, and alternative names or phrases. [find out more...]
- Otherwise include variant words or phrases within the search.
Results
- There is a maximum of twenty results per page. To see the next twenty results, click on the 'next records' box either at the top or bottom of the page.
- The results include only brief descriptions of events. In some cases links to related events, lists of sources ('further information'), or maps, photographs and documents are also included.