Wallis and Futuna Genealogy

Oceania Wallis and Futuna

Guide to Wallis and Futuna ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Country Information
Overseas collectivity of France. Two island groups in the southwest Pacific Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand. Also Wallis et Futuna. See the CIA World Factbook at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wf.html.

Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands[5] (French: Wallis et Futuna or Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: Uvea mo Futuna), is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, the New Zealand-associated state of Tokelau to the northeast and to a more distant north the Phoenix Islands (Kiribati). Wallis and Futuna is not part of French Polynesia, nor even contiguous with it, as the former are located at the very opposite western end of Polynesia.

Its land area is 264 km2 (102 sq mi) with a population of about 15,000. Mata-Utu is the capital and biggest city. The territory is made up of three main volcanic tropical islands along with a number of tiny islets, and is split into two island groups that lie about 260 km (160 mi) apart, namely Wallis Islands (Uvea) in the northeast, and Hoorn Islands (also called the Futuna Islands) in the southwest, including Futuna Island proper and the mostly uninhabited Alofi Island. Since 2003 Wallis and Futuna has been a French overseas collectivity (collectivité d'outre-mer, or COM). Between 1961 and 2003, it had the status of a French overseas territory (territoire d'outre-mer, or TOM), though its official name did not change when the status changed.

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Genealogy records are kept on the [blank] level in the Wallis and Futuna. Click on a [blank] below to go to the state Wiki article listing more information.

Kingdoms
Genealogy records are kept on the kingdom level in Wallis and Futuna. Click on a kingdom below to go to the kingdom Wiki article listing more information.

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