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| | Guide to '''Cook Islands ancestry, family history and genealogy''': parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records. |
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| | The Cook Islands are an island country in free association with New Zealand in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are [[French Polynesia Genealogy|French Polynesia]], [[Niue Genealogy|Niue]], [[American Samoa Genealogy|American Samoa]], and [[Samoa Genealogy|Samoa]]. They were formerly a British protectorate. The official languages are English and Cook Islands Māori.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Cook Islands," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Islands, accessed 3 May 2016.</ref> |
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| == Getting started with Cook Islands research ==
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| The Cook Islands are named after Captain Cook, who sighted them in 1770. The islands became a British protectorate in 1888. By 1900, administrative control was transferred to New Zealand. In 1965, residents chose self-government in free association with New Zealand. For a more full coverage, go the the wiki site "Cook Islands (Includes Rarotonga)"<br>
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| | Genealogy records are kept on the local level in the Cook Islands. |
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| == Genealogy<br> ==
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| For more information about genealogies from the Cook Islands please see this article: [[Samoan, Tongan and other Polynesian Genealogies|Samoan, Tongan and other Polynesian Genealogies]]<br>
| | Genealogy records are kept on the local level in the Cook Islands. The individual islands which keep records are:<br> |
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| *Pacific Island Guide to Family History Research (Wiki article [[Pacific Island Guide to Family History Research|click here]])
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| *http://www.janeresture.com/cookislands/index.htm
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| *http://www.cook-islands.gov.ck/
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| *http://www.ipl.org/div/news/browse/CK/
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| *http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/cook_islands/
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| *cookislandsgenealogy-history.blogspot.com
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