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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

Family History Library Collection[edit | edit source]

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 Nukufetau 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.

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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