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Papua New Guinea

Vital Records

Online Records

• Papua New Guinea, Vital Records, 1867-2000, index & images.
• Papua New Guinea indexes to births, marriages and deaths, 1884-1979, indexes for the next three records.
• Papua New Guinea Births, 1888-2004, images
• Papua New Guinea Marriages, 1892-1995, images
• Papua New Guinea Deaths, images
• British New Guinea card index of deaths, 1888-1906, index & images.
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Papua New Guinea, index & images ($)

• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast - index & images ($)

Civil Registration

• Birth, marriage and death records are kept at the Supreme Court offices in Koror.
• Birth and death records from the Trust Territory Archives (1800-1986) are on microfilm at the United States National Archives, the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Pacific Collection and the National Archives of the FSM at Palikir, Pohnpei.
• Currently being digitized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints