Pacific Island Resources at Auckland Libraries Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
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Transcript of Pacific Island Resources at Auckland Libraries Tuesday, February 14, 2012.
Chapman Codes
• 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
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
Cook Islands 3 COO
Missionary recordsCivil registration
Births 1849 – 1975 Marriage 1900 – 1975 Deaths 1917-1975
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
Niue 3 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
Samoa 3 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
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 1852 by Rhys Richards and Robert Langdon
Tonga 3 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
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