Tuvalu Civil Registration

Online Resources

 * 1866-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Offices to Contact
Location: Local and national civil registry offices.

Coverage and Compliance
Time period: 1903-present.

Population coverage: 90% coverage of the population in the 20th century; less for earlier periods.

Birth Records

 * Name of child
 * Date
 * Names of parents
 * Parents' occupations and religion
 * Name of informant
 * Parents' residence

Marriage Records

 * Date
 * Names of bride and groom
 * Names of parents
 * Parents' occupations and religion
 * Names of witnesses
 * Residences of bride and groom

Death Records

 * Date
 * Name of deceased
 * Names of parents
 * Parents' occupations and religion
 * Place of residence of the deceased
 * Age at death
 * Cause of death
 * Place of burial

Family History Library Collection
Civil registrations of birth, marriages and death records are available for the years from 1866-1979. They are microfilm of original records in the Tuvalu Archives, Funafuti. There are 10 rolls of microfilm.

Number 1213002 contains records of births in Funafuti from 1974-1979. Births in Nanumanga from 1902-1952 and from 1968-1973. Births in Nanumea from 1903-1975. Birth in Niutao from 1905-1952, from 1890-1899, and from 1952-1955.

Number 1213003 contains records of births in Niutao from 1955-1874. Births in Niu from 1903-1976. Births in Nukufetau from 1904-1975.

Number 1213004 contains births in Nukulaelae from 1903-1975. Births in Vaitupu from 1866-1952, 1866-1905, and 1952-1974. Births in Northern Ellice from 1968-1972.

Number 1213005 contains births in Northern Ellice and Southern Ellice from 1968-19754. Death records in Funafati, Nanumanga, Nanumea, Niutao ranging from 1903-1969.

Number 1213006 contains death records in Nui, Nukufetau, Nukulaelae, Vaitupu, Northern Ellice, and Southern Ellice ranging from 1903-1979. Marriages in Funafati from 1933-1979

Number 1213007 contains marriage records in Nanumanga, Nanumea, Nui, ranging from 1889-1974. Marriage records in Nukufetau from 1973-1974 and in Nukulaelae from 1952-1968.

Number 1213008 contains marriage, adoption, and divorce records ranging from 1911-1975.

Number 1213009 contains records of Peruvian slave raids, Tongan wars, old men’s tales, archaeological site to 1900, and history and genealogy records up to 1900.

Number 1213010 contains notes and genealogies, some of them oral genealogies, and Number 1213008.