The NZ National Library is digitising all of its early newspapers. As is the Australians. These date from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This means that the names of ships, and passengers can be searched for. Also the births and marriages and deaths etc. of folk living in those countries around that time .Whilst the OCR is OK there are obviously mistakes depending upon the quality of the originals. On the Australian site you can offer to retype the text correcting any OCR mistakes. These archives are works in progress. You have to play with the searches. See: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ Chris B.