East Timor Genealogy

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

Information[edit | edit source]

East Timor is a country in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are Indonesia and Australia. It was formerly ruled by Portugal. The official languages are Tetum and Portuguese.[1]

East Timor Map[edit | edit source]

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in East Timor.

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Municipalities[edit | edit source]

East Timor is organized into 13 municipalities and 1 special administrative region:

  • Aileu
  • Ainaro
  • Atauro
  • Baucau
  • Bobonaro
  • Covalima
  • Dili
  • Ermera
  • Lautém
  • Liquiçá
  • Manatuto
  • Manufahi
  • Oecusse (SAR)
  • Viqueque

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "East Timor," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor, accessed 2 May 2016.