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| ==Resources== | | ==How to Find the Records== |
| ===Online Resources===
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| *'''1790-1854''' : Sir Charles Lucas, ed., [https://whalesite.org/pitcairn/1929%20-%20Lucas%20-%20PI%20Register.htm ''The Pitcairn Island Register Book''], (New York and Toronto: The MacMillan Co., 1929), pages 31-92. Includes information about birth, marriages, and deaths
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| *'''1792-1963''' : Pitcairn Island. Civil recorder, {{FSC|145565|item|disp=Register, 1792-1963}}, images, FamilySearch (free)
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| *'''1800-1960''' : [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6X47-JSD?cc=1534449 Parish registers (cemetery records) of Pitcairn Island] at FamilySearch; index & images, often includes information about birth, death, names of parents and spouses
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| ===Offices to Contact=== | | ===Offices to Contact=== |
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| [https://www.government.pn/index.php Pitcairn Islands Official Site]<br>
| | ==Historical Background== |
| P.O. Box 105 696<br>
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| Auckland<br>
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| New Zealand<br>
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| Telephone: +64 9 366 0186<br>
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| Fax: +64 9 366 0187<br>
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| Email: admin@pitcairn.gov.pn<br>
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| Pitcairn Island is part of the United Kingdom with a "Governor whose offices are in Wellington, New Zealand." A Commissioner "handles most on-going, practical matters for Pitcairn" but is located in Auckland, New Zealand.
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| "On Pitcairn Island there is the Island Council which meets with the island’s Mayor...." "Under ideal circumstances the Council is in complete charge of governing the island locally."<ref>Pacific Union College, [https://library.puc.edu/pitcairn/pitcairn/govt.shtml The Pitcairn Island Government, [History of Government & Laws], (accessed 21 February 2023).</ref>
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| "With a population of only around fifty, the people of Pitcairn are descended from the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian companions."<ref>The Government of the Pitcairn Islands, [https://www.government.pn/ Official Site], (accessed 21 February 2023). </ref>
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| ==Information Recorded in the Records== | | ==Information Recorded in the Records== |
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| ===Birth Records===
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| *Name of child
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| ===Marriage Records===
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| ===Death Records===
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| == References == | | == References == |
