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== | ==Resources== | ||
===Online Resources=== | |||
== | *'''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 | ||
*'''1792-1963''' : Pitcairn Island. Civil recorder, {{FSC|145565|item|disp=Register, 1792-1963}}, images, FamilySearch (free) | |||
*'''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 | |||
===Offices to Contact=== | |||
[https://www.government.pn/index.php Pitcairn Islands Official Site]<br> | |||
P.O. Box 105 696<br> | |||
Auckland<br> | |||
New Zealand<br> | |||
Telephone: +64 9 366 0186<br> | |||
Fax: +64 9 366 0187<br> | |||
Email: admin@pitcairn.gov.pn<br> | |||
==Background== | |||
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. | |||
"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> | |||
"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> | |||
==Coverage and Compliance== | ==Coverage and Compliance== | ||
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==Information Recorded in the Records== | ==Information Recorded in the Records== | ||
===Birth Records=== | |||
*Name of child | |||
*Date of birth | |||
*Names of parents | |||
===Marriage Records=== | |||
*Names of bride and groom | |||
*Date of marriage | |||
*Sometimes names of parents | |||
===Death Records=== | |||
*Name of deceased | |||
*Date of death or burial | |||
*Place of death or burial | |||
*Sometimes names of parents or spouse | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
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