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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.
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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]
Papua New Guinea Map
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Papua New Guinea.
Provinces
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is divided into the following provinces:
- Central
- Chimbu
- Eastern Highlands
- East New Britain
- East Sepik
- Enga
- Gulf
- Madang
- Manus
- Milne Bay
- Morobe
- New Ireland
- Northern/Oro
- Bougainville
- Southern Highlands
- Western
- Western Heighlands
- West New Britain
- West Sepik (Sandaun)
- Port Moresby (National Capital)
- Hela
- Jiwaka
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Papua New Guinea," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea, accessed 25 April 2016.