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

Country Information[edit | edit source]

Lesotho is an enclave country in Africa within South Africa. It was previously known as Basutoland. Great Britain formerly ruled the area. The official languages are Sesotho and English.^[1]

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Districts[edit | edit source]

Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Lesotho. Lesotho is divided into the following districts:

Berea
Butha-Buthe
Leribe
Mafeteng
Maseru
Mohale's Hoek
Mokhotlong
Qacha's Nek
Quthing
Thaba-Tseka

References[edit | edit source]

↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Lesotho," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho, accessed 22 April 2016.

[1] Wikipedia contributors, "Lesotho," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho, accessed 22 April 2016.

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+Lesotho is an enclave country in Africa within [[South Africa Genealogy|South Africa]]. It was previously known as Basutoland. [[England Genealogy|Great Britain]] formerly ruled the area. The official languages are Sesotho and English.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, "Lesotho," in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho, accessed 22 April 2016.</ref>
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