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Archives and Libraries

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

Archives of New Caledonia
3, rue Félix-Raoul Thomas
Nouville
BP M2
98849 Noumea Cedex
Nouvelle-Calédonie

Phone: (687) 26 60 20
E-mail: archives@gouv.nc
Website
Genealogy
FAQ

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New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a collectivity of France. Here is the website for the French Overseas National Archives, where you will find online some birth, marriage, and death records.

• 1855 to 1908 -National Overseas Archives, New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
• Before 1890 - National Overseas Archives, Penal colonies archives

Libraries

Bernheim Library
41 av. du Maréchal Foch
BP G1
98848 Noumea cedex
New Caledonia

Telephone: (+687) 24 20 90
Website

Museums

Museum of New Caledonia
Museums and Heritage Department
68 Avenue James Cook - Nouville
BP M2, 98849 Nouméa Cedex
New Caledonia

Telephone: 27 23 42
Fax: 28 41 43
E-mail: smp@gouv
Website

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Google listing of museums in New Caledonia

Record Offices

The registration of births and deaths in New Caledonia is undertaken by civil status services. There is a civil status service in each of the 33 municipalities of New Caledonia. By right, the mayor of each municipality is the civil status officer, but this officer may delegate some functions to a deputy, a municipal councillor or a municipal agent. The registrar must record all events that take place in the municipality (births, marriages, deaths, etc.). Information of birth and death registration in each municipality is sent to the Institut de la statistique et des études économiques (ISEE) Nouvelle-Calédonie, where it is collated.