French Polynesia Genealogy
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Guide to French Polynesia ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Country Information
French Polynesia is an island overseas collectivity of the French Republic in the Pacific Ocean whose nearest neighbors are the Cook Islands, Kiribati, and the Pitcairn Islands. The official language is French.[1]
French Polynesia Map
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in French Polynesia.

Islands
French Polynesia lies south of Hawaii and east of Tonga and Samoa. It is composed of 118 islands. From north to south the major island groups are:
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, “French Polynesia,” in ‘’Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,’’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Polynesia, accessed 29 April 2016.