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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records[edit | edit source]

Online Resources[edit | edit source]

1866-1979 Tuvalu, Vital Records, 1866-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Offices to Contact[edit | edit source]

Location: Local and national civil registry offices.

Historical Background[edit | edit source]

Coverage and Compliance[edit | edit source]

Time period: 1903-present.

Population coverage: 90% coverage of the population in the 20th century; less for earlier periods.^[1]

Information Recorded in the Records[edit | edit source]

Birth Records[edit | edit source]

Name of child
Date
Names of parents
Parents' occupations and religion
Name of informant
Parents' residence

Marriage Records[edit | edit source]

Date
Names of bride and groom
Names of parents
Parents' occupations and religion
Names of witnesses
Residences of bride and groom

Death Records[edit | edit source]

Date
Name of deceased
Names of parents
Parents' occupations and religion
Place of residence of the deceased
Age at death
Cause of death
Place of burial

References[edit | edit source]

↑ 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.

[profile-1] 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.

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