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How to Find the Records

Offices to Contact

• Bureau of the Census: "If you know the Arabic names and the appropriate dates, you may be able to obtain birth and death certificates from district or central offices of the Bureau of the Census. Address your inquiry to the Census Office in the community (i.e., village, city, county) where your ancestor lived."
  

Al Hamra - Sana'a
Ministry of Interior and Municipalities 9710 - 9500
Telephone number: 01/754200 - 01/751601 - 01/751602

Ottoman Censuses before 1967 "Tabu Daftari" carried out every 30-40 years.
Archives of Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Census done in 1860
Can be found in Lebanese Serails and Lebanese and Turkish Ministries of Interior. Mukhtars can request Ottoman documents.

Census done in 1913
Can be found in Lebanese Serails and Lebanese and Turkish Ministries of Interior.

1921
Census carried out by the French.

1932
Can be found in archives of Division of Personal Status at the Ministry of Interior.

Information Recorded in the Records

Ottoman Censuses before 1967 "Tabu Daftari" carried out every 30-40 years.
Located at the Archives of Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Census done in 1860
Can be found in Lebanese Serails and Lebanese and Turkish Ministries of Interior. Mukhtars can request Ottoman documents.

Census done in 1913
Can be found in Lebanese Serails and Lebanese and Turkish Ministries of Interior.

1921
Census carried out by the French.

1932
Last official census. Includes:

• resident records
• personal status records
• foreigner records
• immigrant and refugee records

Can be found in archives of Division of Personal Status at the Ministry of Interior.