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

2. Chapman Codes Pacific Islands3 PAC Cook Island3 COO Fiji3 FIJ Guam3 GUM Hawaii3 HAW Kiribati3 KIR Nauru3 NAU Niue3 NIU Pap New Guinea 3 PNG Samoa3 SAM Solomon Islands3 SOL Tahiti3 FRP Tonga3 TON Vanuatu3 VAN

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 Islands3 COO  Missionary records  Civil registration  Births 1849 – 1975  Marriage 1900 – 1975  Deaths 1917-1975

9. Fiji3 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

10. 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

13. 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

14. Tahiti3 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

15. Tonga3 TON Free Wesleyan Church records 1830 – 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

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