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Archives and Libraries

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

Service Territorial des Affaires Culturelles de Wallis et Futuna
Postal address: BP 131 – Mata'utu – 98600 WALLIS

Phone: (00.681) 72 00 90
Email: chef.stac@mail.wf
Website
Genealogical Research
Genealogy Request Form

French Colonial Archives

National Archives of Overseas (ANOM)
29 chemin du moulin de Testas - CS50062
13182 Aix-en-Provence
CEDEX 5 France

Telephone: + 33 (0)4 42 93 38 50
Email: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr

• 1894 to 1907 - Overseas National Archives, Wallis and Futuna

Libraries

Alexander Turnbull Library
National Library of New Zealand
70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon
Wellington 6011, New Zealand

Mailing address: PO Box 12349, Wellington 6140 New Zealand
Telephone: +64 4 474 3000
Fax: +64 4 474 3063
Email: information@natlib.govt.nz
Website

• The Alexander Turnbull Library has the following:
  

*Wallis and Futuna — Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

*Catholic Mission, Wallis island - Genealogies of Wallisian and Futunian families, compiled by Father Joseph Henquel — Consists of genealogies of all Wallisian families (from A-F) compiled from oral tradition, baptismal and matrimonial registers dating from 1824, and from regular parish censuses. There are also some Futunian genealogies (not alphabetical).

Record Offices

Birth Certificates: Available by mail from the Court of the First Instance at the place of birth.
Death Certificates: Death certificates can be requested from the Court of the First Instance in Mata-Utu.
Marriage Certificates: Available at the Court of the First Instance in the town where the marriage took place.
Divorce Records: Available at the Court of the First Instance in the town where the divorce was granted.
Usually marriages and divorces are noted on the birth certificate.