Tuvalu Civil Registration

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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Resources

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

Offices to Contact

Location: Local and national civil registry offices.

Office of the Attorney-General
Government Building
Vaiaku, Funafuti
Tuvalu

Telephone (688) 7 102 050

(688) 20 823

E-mail: eselealofa@gmail.com

teaniua@gmail.com

Coverage and Compliance

Time period: 1903-present.

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

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

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

Marriage Records

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

Death Records

• 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