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==Online Resources==
*'''1866-1979''' {{RecordSearch|3875191|Tuvalu, Vital Records, 1866-1979}} at FamilySearch - [[Tuvalu, Vital Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index and images


===Civil Registration===


Research use: Uniquely identifies individuals and connects them to their parents.
==Resources==
===Online Resources===


Record type: Civil records of birth, marriage, and death.


General: Civil registration is the most complete source for genealogical purposes.


Time period: 1903-present.
===Offices to Contact===


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.
==Background==


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.


'''Number 1213002''' contains records of births in ''Funafuti'' from 1974-1979. Births in ''Nanumanga'' from 1902-1952 and from 1968-1973. Births in ''Nanumea'' from 1903-1975. Birth in ''Niutao'' from 1905-1952, from 1890-1899, and from 1952-1955.
==Coverage and Compliance==


'''Number 1213003''' contains records of births in ''Niutao'' from 1955-1874. Births in Niu from 1903-1976. Births in ''Nukufeta''u from 1904-1975.


'''Number 1213004''' contains births in ''Nukulaelae'' from 1903-1975. Births in ''Vaitupu'' from 1866-1952, 1866-1905, and 1952-1974. Births in ''Northern Ellice'' from 1968-1972.


'''Number 1213005''' contains births in ''Northern Ellice and Southern Ellice'' from 1968-19754. Death records in ''Funafati, Nanumanga, Nanumea, Niutao'' ranging from 1903-1969.
==Information Recorded in the Records==


'''Number 1213006''' contains death records in ''Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae, Vaitupu, Northern Ellice, and Southern Ellice'' ranging from 1903-1979. Marriages in ''Funafati ''from 1933-1979
===Birth Records===


'''Number 1213007''' contains marriage records in ''Nanumanga, Nanumea, Nui'', ranging from 1889-1974. Marriage records in ''Nukufetau'' from 1973-1974 and in ''Nukulaelae'' from 1952-1968.


'''Number 1213008''' contains marriage, adoption, and divorce records ranging from 1911-1975.


'''Number 1213009''' contains records of Peruvian slave raids, ''Tongan'' wars, old men’s tales, archaeological site to 1900, and history and genealogy records up to 1900.
===Marriage Records===


'''Number 1213010''' contains notes and genealogies, some of them oral genealogies, and '''Number 1213008'''.
 
===Death Records===
 


== References ==
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