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Pacific Island Resources at Auckland Libraries - Genealogy and Historical Documents

Explore a variety of resources at Auckland Libraries for Pacific Island genealogies, civil registrations, missionary records, and more. Access books, microfiche, electoral rolls, and published family histories. Discover valuable information on Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and other Pacific nations.

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Pacific Island Resources at Auckland Libraries - Genealogy and Historical Documents

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  1. Pacific Island Resources at Auckland Libraries Tuesday, February 14, 2012

  2. Pacific Islands 3 PAC Cook Island 3 COO Fiji 3 FIJ Guam 3 GUM Hawaii 3 HAW Kiribati 3 KIR Nauru 3 NAU Niue 3 NIU Pap New Guinea 3 PNG Samoa 3 SAM Solomon Islands 3 SOL Tahiti 3 FRP Tonga 3 TON Vanuatu 3 VAN Chapman Codes

  3. Variety of resources • Missionary and church records • Civil registration (births, deaths, marriages) • Genealogies • Emigration lists • Probates • Telephone and business directories • Electoral rolls • Cyclopedias • Published family histories • Books, magazines, microfiche, microfilms

  4. Cook Islands 3 COO • Missionary records • Civil registration • Births 1849 – 1975 • Marriage 1900 – 1975 • Deaths 1917-1975

  5. Fiji 3 FIJ • B D M records for General • B D M records for Fijians • B D M records for Indians • B D M records for Europeans • Genealogies and pedigrees for some families • *Registers include Rotuma Island • ** Indian records often have the village in India named

  6. Niue3 NIU • London Missionary Church Baptisms 1926-1947 • London Missionary Church Rolls 1872 – 1912, 1928 & 1948 • Civil registrations – BDM, 1900 - 1994 • Emigration lists • Genealogies • World War I records

  7. Samoa3 SAM • British consulate registrations 1852 - 1915 • Civil registrations 1905 - 1993 • British military registrations 1917 - 1961 • British subjects register 1878 – 1915 • American Samoa directories • American Samoan registers on order

  8. Tahiti 3 FRP • Civil registrations 1852 – 1999 • Consulate registrations 1818 – 1955 Work in progress: Microfilms being indexed and translations guide being created • Tahiti and the Society Islands : shipping arrivals and departures, 1767 to 1852by Rhys Richards and Robert Langdon

  9. Tonga3 TON • Free Wesleyan Church records1830 – 1982 • Enemy aliens in Tonga, May 1916 : as listed by the British Consul in Tonga, from the Western Pacific Archives transcribed by Christine Liava'a • Koe kau to'a na'anau poletau = Valiant volunteers : soldiers from Tonga in the Great War by Christine Liava'a

  10. Other sources • Auckland Libraries eResources/Digital Library:Manuscripts Online, Heritage Images • Ancestry Library edition • FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org) • FindMyPast AU • PapersPast • Trove • Auckland University • Pacific Islands Interest Group – NZ Society of Genealogists. Contact Christine Liava’a

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