Pacific Island Resourcesat 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