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Samoa - Vital Records 1846-1996 , Birth Place

brookannebrown1
brookannebrown1 ✭
April 26, 2021 edited August 25, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

I am working on a batch of birth records and I am uncertain what to enter as "birth place". The image lists District and Village. Which do I enter as birth place? Or is this similar to city and county and both should be listed?

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  • Landrin Faiva
    Landrin Faiva ✭
    April 26, 2021 Answer ✓

    You're definitely on the right track

    Since Samoan districts consist of several villages, you'll follow the small-to-large rule and type VILLAGE, DISTRICT

    And since the system reads from left-to-right, make sure to separate the two with a comma as well so the system recognizes what you're saying

    Hope this helped :)

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  • brookannebrown1
    brookannebrown1 ✭
    April 29, 2021 edited April 29, 2021
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    So would this birth place be entered as:


    Faletagaloa, Safune, Gagaifomauga

    or is Safune larger than Gagaifomauga? Should I reverse the placement of Safune and Gagaifomauga, like this:


    Faletagaloa, Gagaifomauga, Safune

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  • Melissa S Himes
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    April 29, 2021

    I think you are correct!

    Sometimes you have to do a search to find out how these work. I found this on a website called mapcarta.

    "Faletagaloa is a village on the central north coast of Savai'i island in Samoa. The village is in the traditional sub-district of Safune in the Gagaifomauga electoral division."



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