Nigeria Genealogy

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Nigeria

Guide to Nigeria ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Nigeria is a country in Africa bordered by Benin, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger. It was formerly ruled by Great Britain. The official language is English.

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Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Nigeria. Click on a place below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.
Beside Abuja (the Federal Capital Territory [FCT]), there are 36 states in the country of Nigeria:

• Abuja (FCT)
• Abia
• Anambra
• Adamawa
• Akwa Ibom
• Bauchi
• Bayelsa
• Benue
• Borno
• Cross River
• Delta
• Ebonyi
• Edo
• Ekiti
• Enugu
• Gombe
• Imo
• Jigawa
• Kaduna
• Kano
• Katsina
• Kebbi
• Kogi
• Kwara
• Lagos
• Nasarawa
• Niger
• Ogun
• Ondo
• Osun
• Oyo
• Plateau
• Rivers
• Sokoto
• Taraba
• Yobe
• Zamfara