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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Collections

The following online records are only available at family history centers and the Family History Library:

• 1895-1989 - Birth registers of Indians in Fiji, 1895-1989
• 1917-1989 - Death register of Indians, 1917-1989
• 1877-1989 - Death registers of Fijians, 1877-1989
• 1875-1989 - Death registers, 1875-1989
• 1875-1989 - General birth records, 1875-1989
• 1899-1922 - Register of deaths of Indian immigration (by plantation), 1899-1922
• 1876-1989 - Register of Fijian births, 1876-1989
• 1874-1989 - Register of Fijian marriages, 1874-1989
• 1871-1989 - Register of general marriages, 1871-1989
• 1913-1989 - Register of Indian marriages, 1913-1989
• 1945-1991 - Registers of adoptions, 1945-1991
• 1876-1880 - Report on the census of the population of Fiji, 1881...(and vital records, 1876-1880)

The following online records can be used anywhere:

• 1877-1942 - Index to Fijian death records, 1877-1942
• 1912-1917 - Index to Fijian marriage records for Fiji, 1912-1917
• 1929 - Index to Indian death records for Fiji, 1929

Offices to Contact

Ministry of Justice
Births, Deaths and Marriages registry
Level 1, Suvavou House
Victoria Parade, Suva

P O Box 2226
Government Buildings
Suva, Fiji

Telephone: (679) 3308600

Historical Background

Civil registration begins late, about 1870, in Melanesia.

Information Recorded in the Records

Births

• Date
• Name of principal and parents
• Occupation and religious preference of parents
• Name of informant
• place of residence for parents

Marriages

• Date
• Name of principal and parents
• Occupation and religious preference of parents
• Names of witnesses
• Residence of groom and bride

Deaths

• Date
• Name of principal and parents
• Occupation and religious preference of parents
• Age at death
• Cause of death
• Place of burial

Death-Related Records

These records include:

• Inventories of personal and real property
• Notarial records (generally outlining inheritance and distribution of property)
• Declarations of succession
• Tombstone transcriptions
• Obituaries
• Sexton records
• Burials

Records generally exist from 1860 to the present and can be found at administrative offices and archives.