Federated States of Micronesia Civil Registration

Offices to Contact
Administrative offices at various levels and archives.

Historical Background
Time period: 1898-present. Earliest year by country: Kiribati (1898), Guam (1901), Northern Mariana Islands (1945), Marshall Islands (1952), Federated States of Micronesia (1952), Palau (probably 1952), Nauru (unknown).

Coverage and Compliance
Duplication: 20% duplication with other record types.

Population coverage: 40% of the population.

Information Recorded in the Records
Kiribati acquired by FamilySearch

Micronesia, Pohnpei Civil Registration, 1800-1986

 * 1800-1986 - Birth and death records from the Trust Territory Archives are on microfilm at the United States National Archives, the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Pacific Collection and the National Archives of the FSM at Palikir, Pohnpei.


 * Currently being digitized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Micronesia, Pohnpei Civil Registration, 1948-2009
This collection contains birth, marriage, and death certificates from the State of Pohnpei, Micronesia, between the years of 1948-2009.


 * (FamilySearch)


 * A wiki article describing the above online collection is found at:


 * Micronesia, Pohnpei Civil Registration - FamilySearch Historical Records

Death and inheritance records
Research use: Identify relationships and provide clues to other record sources.

Record type: Death inventories (notarial record concerning inheritance), wills and probates, declarations of succession, tombstone or monumental transcriptions, obituaries, sexton records, burials, and others.

General: Civil records generated in the event of death.

Time period: 1800s-present.

Contents: Names, vital statistics; and in some sources names of kin and relationship to the deceased.