22 Aug 2012

Search is on for family to reunite with family tree

4:22 pm on 22 August 2012

Staff at Auckland Libraries are trying to find the owner of a 500-year-old family tree.

The genealogical record of the Jennings family found 43 years ago in the attic of a Waiheke Island house has been preserved and restored by the library service.

The intricate family tree on large poster-sized paper details the history of David Jennings, who emigrated from England to Nelson in 1849.

Auckland Libraries wants to reunite the tree with its creator or a descendant.