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=== Family History Work === | === Family History Work === | ||
Instructions for French Polynesian Family History work from Ives Perrin: | Instructions for French Polynesian Family History work from ''Ives Perrin:'' | ||
Brother Perrin served as LDS Mission President in Tahiti, and as a Church educator in the islands of French Polynesia for several years. His suggestions for the steps a person from French Polynesia should take to get records after interviewing family members are as follows: | Brother Perrin served as LDS Mission President in Tahiti, and as a Church educator in the islands of French Polynesia for several years. His suggestions for the steps a person from French Polynesia should take to get records after interviewing family members are as follows: | ||
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=== Resources available === | === Resources available === | ||
Use the Family History Library Catalog. | |||
Note: All of these islands are a protectorate of France. The people of these islands are full citizens of France. School children must learn French history. French is the governing language, and the civil records are kept in French. Jurisdictions are organized the same way | *Go to the Internet at familysearch.org and click on the Library. From that tab, click on the Family History Library Catalog. We can type in '''French Polynesia''' to get a list of the islands and island groups and to see what records were made under this large jurisdiction. Then we should type in the name of each '''island group''' for records in that jurisdiction and then type in the name of the '''island''' that interests you. On ''Tahiti'', records are listed under the name of the town. Also, we should do a keyword search on '''Tahiti'''. Over 220 items will appear.<br>'''Note: All of these islands are a protectorate of France'''. The people of these islands are full citizens of France. School children must learn French history. French is the governing language, and the civil records are kept in French. Jurisdictions are organized the same way | ||
*Births, marriages, and deaths are recorded by the government, and citizens are required to have an official government record. Tables are published by the government every ten years giving an index to the names in the records. This facilitates genealogical research up to the time when the French first came to the islands. They have been keeping records since the early 1800's. | *Births, marriages, and deaths are recorded by the government, and citizens are required to have an official government record. Tables are published by the government every ten years giving an index to the names in the records. This facilitates genealogical research up to the time when the French first came to the islands. They have been keeping records since the early 1800's. | ||
*Notarial records are available from the year 1862. | *Notarial records are available from the year 1862. | ||
*Large numbers of civil registration records are available from 1843. | *Large numbers of civil registration records are available from 1843. | ||
*A large number of oral genealogies and land records are also available. <br>'''Tahiti: 795887, 795889<br>Tuamotos: 795889 <br>Tubuai (Austral Islands): 795889''' | *A large number of ''oral genealogies ''and ''land records ''are also available. <br>'''Tahiti: 795887, 795889<br>Tuamotos: 795889 <br>Tubuai (Austral Islands): 795889''' | ||
*We can also use a Film/fiche number search and look at the descriptions of the following microfilms, all of which contain French Polynesian information: 795887, 795888, 795889,181746 Item 7, and 1515054. | *We can also use a Film/fiche number search and look at the descriptions of the following microfilms, all of which contain French Polynesian information: 795887, 795888, 795889,181746 Item 7, and 1515054. | ||
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