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| | ==== Background Information ==== |
| |Country=French Polynesia
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| |Type=Territory
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| |Name=French Polynesia
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| | link5=[[French Polynesia Genealogy|French Polynesia]]
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| Guide to '''French Polynesia ancestry, family history and genealogy''': parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
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| French Polynesia is an island overseas collectivity of the [[France Genealogy|French Republic]] in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are the [[Cook Islands Genealogy|Cook Islands]], [[Kiribati Genealogy|Kiribati]], and the [[Pitcairn Islands Genealogy|Pitcairn Islands]]. The official language is French.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, “French Polynesia,” in ‘’Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,’’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Polynesia, accessed 29 April 2016.</ref>
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| ==French Polynesia Map==
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| Genealogy records are kept on the local level in French Polynesia.
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| {{French Polynesia clickable}}
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| <gallery widths="200px" heights="180px">
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| Image:French polynesia.png|Map of islands with names
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| </gallery>
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| == Islands ==
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| [[French_Polynesia|French Polynesia]] lies south of Hawaii and east of Tonga and Samoa. It is composed of 118 islands. From north to south the major island groups are:<br>
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| *[[Marquesas Islands|Marquesas Islands]]
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| *[[Tuamotu Islands|Tuamotu Islands]]
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| *[[Society Islands (includes Tahiti)|Society Islands (Includes Tahiti)]]
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| *[[Gambier Islands|Gambier Islands]]
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| *[[Austral Islands|Austral Islands]]
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| [[Category:French Polynesia]]
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