Cook Islands Genealogy

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Guide to Cook Islands ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Information[edit | edit source]

The Cook Islands are an island country in free association with New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are French Polynesia, Niue, American Samoa, and Samoa. They were formerly a British protectorate. The official languages are English and Cook Islands Māori.[1]

Cook Islands Map[edit | edit source]

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in the Cook Islands.

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Islands[edit | edit source]

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in the Cook Islands. The individual islands which keep records are:

  • Aitutaki
  • Atiu
  • Mangaia
  • Mangarongaro
  • Manihiki
  • Mauke
  • Mitiaro
  • Nassau
  • Palmerston
  • Penrhyn
  • Pukapuka
  • Rakahanga
  • Rarotonga
  • Suwarrow
  • Tongareva
  • Wytootachee

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Cook Islands," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands, accessed 3 May 2016.