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*'''1918-1965''' {{RecordSearch|2355804|American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents, 1918-1965}} at FamilySearch - [[American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images. Collection of passenger lists, passports and travel permits, letters of identity, affidavits of birth, visas and visa requests, and naturalization petitions from American Samoa. Also at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61872/ U.S., American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents, 1918-1965] Ancestry ($), index and images. | *'''1918-1965''' {{RecordSearch|2355804|American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents, 1918-1965}} at FamilySearch - [[American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images. Collection of passenger lists, passports and travel permits, letters of identity, affidavits of birth, visas and visa requests, and naturalization petitions from American Samoa. Also at [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61872/ U.S., American Samoa, Passenger Lists and Travel Documents, 1918-1965] Ancestry ($), index and images. | ||
==Background== | |||
*Mission work in the Samoas began in late 1830, when John Williams of the London Missionary Society arrived from the Cook Islands and Tahiti. | |||
*At the turn of the twentieth century, international rivalries in the latter half of the century were settled by the 1899 Tripartite Convention in which Germany and the United States partitioned the Samoan Islands into two: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States and is today known as American Samoa; the western islands, by far the greater landmass, became known as German Samoa, after Britain gave up all claims to Samoa and in return accepted the termination of German rights in Tonga and certain areas in the Solomon Islands and West Africa. | |||
*The following year, the U.S. formally annexed its portion, a smaller group of eastern islands, one of which contains the noted harbor of Pago Pago. After the United States Navy took possession of eastern Samoa for the United States government, the existing coaling station at Pago Pago Bay was expanded into a full naval station, known as United States Naval Station Tutuila and commanded by a commandant. | |||
*Of the population, 88.9% are native Samoans, 3.7% are other Pacific Islanders, 3.6% are Asian, 2.7% are mixed, and 1.2% are of other origins.<ref>"American Samoa", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Samoa, accessed 12 April 2021.</ref> | |||
== What Can These Records Tell Me? == | == What Can These Records Tell Me? == | ||
'''Visas:''' documents proving legal permission given by the authority of a country for a person who is not a citizen of that country to enter and to remain there for a specified length of time. | '''Visas:''' documents proving legal permission given by the authority of a country for a person who is not a citizen of that country to enter and to remain there for a specified length of time. | ||