Samoa Genealogy

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Samoa

Guide to Samoa ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Country Information

Samoa in an island archipelago country in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are American Samoa, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Tonga, and Fiji. It was formerly known as Western Samoa and was a colony of Germany and New Zealand. The official languages are Samoan and English.

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Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Samoa.

Districts

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Samoa. Samoa is divided into the following districts. Click on a district below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.

• A'ana
• Aiga-i-le-Tai
• Atua
• Fa'asaleleaga
• Gaga'emauga
• Gagaifomauga
• Palauli
• Satupa'itea
• Tuamasaga
• Va'a-o-Fonoti
• Vaisigano