Papua New Guinea Genealogy

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Guide to Papua New Guinea ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Information

Papua New Guinea is an island country in the Pacific Ocean bordered by Indonesia. The official languages are Hiri Motu, Tok Pisin, Papua New Guinean, Sign Language, and English.[1]

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Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Papua New Guinea.

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Provinces

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is divided into the following provinces:

  1. Central
  2. Chimbu
  3. Eastern Highlands
  4. East New Britain
  5. East Sepik
  6. Enga
  7. Gulf
  8. Madang
  9. Manus
  10. Milne Bay
  11. Morobe
  12. New Ireland
  13. Northern/Oro
  14. Bougainville
  15. Southern Highlands
  16. Western
  17. Western Heighlands
  18. West New Britain
  19. West Sepik (Sandaun)
  20. Port Moresby (National Capital)
  21. Hela
  22. Jiwaka


References

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Papua New Guinea," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea, accessed 25 April 2016.