RAPID Heritage
Enabling access to New Zealand's Heritage.
Our story
RAPID Heritage’s goal is to be a conduit for people to learn about New Zealand’s heritage. The aim is to help people discover and access records; quickly, cheaply and easily.
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I’m a record agent specializing in researching and retrieving records. I’m qualified to locate records to answer specific questions and examine their content to provide the information you need.
I began researching my family in depth in 2018, and since 2019 I have been a member of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists. I completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde in 2023.
In 2025, I gained accreditation with the ‘Australasian Association of Genealogists and Record Agents’ as a Record Agent.
Our Services
RAPID Heritage only provides images of photographs and scans of documents.
Documents will be emailed in:
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PDF/A format and in the order of the archival item
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Descriptive metadata is included. This helps ensure data quality and data integrity:​
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PDF/A version.
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​Title: Name of item, the date the PDF was created followed by the page number
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Author: James Tait
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Subject: Repository record number or source
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Pictures will be emailed as:
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A RAW file, unaltered and unedited. RAW files are uncompressed and unprocessed image data captured by a digital camera, and capture a high level of image detail.
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Cost: $40 NZD per 30 minutes