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''[[Pacific]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)'' {{Tuvalu-sidebar}} | ''[[Pacific]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[French Polynesia Genealogy|French Polynesia]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Tuvalu (Ellice Islands)'' {{Tuvalu-sidebar}} | ||
===Civil Registration=== | |||
Research use: Uniquely identifies individuals and connects them to their parents. | |||
Record type: Civil records of birth, marriage, and death. | |||
General: Civil registration is the most complete source for genealogical purposes. | |||
Time period: 1903-present. | |||
Contents: Birth, marriage, and death records have the exact date of the event, including time of day for births; name of principal and parents; occupation and religious preference of parents; name of informant for births and names of witnesses for marriages; place of residence for parents of new born, of the groom and bride for marriages, and of the deceased for deaths; age at death, cause of death, and place of burial in death records. | |||
Location: Local and national civil registry offices. | |||
Population coverage: 90% coverage of the population in the 20th century; less for earlier periods. | |||
Reliability: High.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Polynesia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-2000.</ref> | |||
===Family History Library Collection=== | |||
Civil registrations of birth, marriages and death records are available for the years from 1866-1979. They are microfilm of original records in the ''Tuvalu Archives, Funafuti.'' There are 10 rolls of microfilm. | Civil registrations of birth, marriages and death records are available for the years from 1866-1979. They are microfilm of original records in the ''Tuvalu Archives, Funafuti.'' There are 10 rolls of microfilm. | ||
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'''Number 1213010''' contains notes and genealogies, some of them oral genealogies, and '''Number 1213008'''. | '''Number 1213010''' contains notes and genealogies, some of them oral genealogies, and '''Number 1213008'''. | ||
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