Lebanon Research Tips and Strategies

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Lebanon Beginning Research

Getting Started Online Learning Record Finder Research Strategies Finding Town of Origin

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Lebanon

Lebanon Research Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The Lebanon Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for the Lebanon. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Lebanon Research Strategies

Below are links to different research strategy Wiki pages to help you locate your ancestors in Lebanon:

• Getting Started
• Record Finder
• Lebanon Finding Town of Origin
• Lebanon Emigration and Immigration
• Lebanon Mukhtar Records

Lebanon Research Tips

• Online Learning - video classes on research in Lebanon and the Middle East in general
• Record Finder - gives suggestions for which kinds of records to search based on the information being sought
• Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree - FamilySearch blog article
• Most civil records in Lebanon are created and preserved on the local level by mukhtars, village or district authorities. The Lebanese government maintains the names and contact information of all current mukhtars by locality. For more information see Lebanon Mukhtar Records.
• Lebanon's Christian communities may maintain records of parish baptisms, marriages, and deaths. For more information see Lebanon Church Records.
• Lebanon's other religious communities, including Sunni and Shi'a Muslims and Druze, may have limited genealogical records apart from official mukhtar records. See Lebanon Religious Records for more information.
• Lebanon was a mandate administered by France from 1923 to 1946. The French language continues to play an important role in the country and some records may be in French rather than Arabic.
• Until the end of World War I in 1918, Lebanon was a part of the Ottoman Empire. During this period the country was often considered part of Greater Syria, and many Lebanese immigrants before 1918 may be listed as Syrian or even Turkish in the records of their new countries. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire conducted detailed censuses of its population. FamilySearch provides access to some of these digitized records. For more information see Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers.
• For more information on the Lebanese diaspora, see Lebanon Diaspora and Lebanon Emigration and Immigration.
• For more information about Lebanese tribes, including links to books detailing the histories and genealogies of certain tribes in the country and throughout the Arab world, see Lebanon Tribes and Clans.
• See Lebanon Societies for organizations and communities focused on Lebanese genealogy. Connecting with these groups can provide insight into research questions.