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''[[Pacific]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Papua New Guinea'' {{Papua New Guinea-sidebar}}
''[[Pacific]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Papua New Guinea Genealogy|Papua New Guinea]]'' {{Papua New Guinea-sidebar}}
 
===Immigration records===
 
Accessibility:  By personal visit or hire a researcher.  Archives generally do not do research.
 
Record type: Record of immigrants, foreign residents, and citizens.
 
Time Period:  1890-present.
 
Content: Immigrant’s name, age, occupation, birth date and place, former residence, destination; wife’s name, childrens’ given names and ages or number of children; religion, race, nationality, sometimes picture.  Chinese immigration records give names and places in Chinese characters.
 
Location: National Archives, municipal archives, Chinese community kapitans.
Reliability:  Good.
 
Research use:  Very valuable for making proper connections to place of origin in other countries.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Papua New Guinea,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 2000.</ref>


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== Sources ==
== References ==


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