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==Notarial Records==
==Notarial Records==
Research use: Very useful supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.  These records often fill in gaps in civil and church records by providing information on the extended family, including brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.
Research use: Invaluable supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.  These records often fill in gaps in civil and church records by providing information on the extended family, including brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.


Record type: Records of dowry and marriage contracts, wills, land, mortgage, business, and property records.
Record type: Records of dowry and marriage contracts, wills, land, mortgage, business, and property records.
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Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Western Indian Ocean,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990, 2000.</ref>
Reliability: Good.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Western Indian Ocean,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990, 2000.</ref>
*[https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Mauritius_Notarial_Records Mauritius Notarial Records] Invaluable supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.


== References ==
== References ==

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Notarial Records[edit | edit source]

Research use: Invaluable supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations. These records often fill in gaps in civil and church records by providing information on the extended family, including brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc.

Record type: Records of dowry and marriage contracts, wills, land, mortgage, business, and property records.

Time period: 1724 to present.

Contents: Names, parents’ names, date and place of birth, marriage, death, etc.

Location: Mauritius Central Archives and other archives.

Population coverage: Approximately 45% of the French colonial population; less than 35% of native population.

Reliability: Good.[1]

  • Mauritius Notarial Records Invaluable supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.


References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Western Indian Ocean,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990, 2000.