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Archives and Libraries

• Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
• If you plan to visit a repository, contact them and ask for information about their collection, hours, services, and fees. Ask if they require you to have a reader’s ticket (a paper indicating you are a responsible researcher) to view the records, and ask how to obtain one.
• Although the records you need may be in an archive or library, the Family History Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

• National Library and Archives
• Egypt Archives

Al-Azhar University; al-Azhar Library
American University in Cairo
Nederlands-Vlaams Instituut in Cairo (NVIC)
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO)
Franciscan Centre of Christian Oriental Studies
Akhbar al-Yawm Newspaper Archive
Ruz al Yusuf Foundation
Dar Al Hilal Newspaper Archive
Dar al-Mahfuzat al-ʿUmumiyya

The documents preserved in Dar al-Mahfuzat today certainly include three important collections.

1) The pension dossiers of state employees between the 1830s and 1959. In these dossiers one can trace the entire careers of state employees and obtain some information on their heirs. These files provide also an insight into the administrative work and cooperation between different branches of the state.

2) The tax-registers of buildings in Cairo which once belonged to the Cairo Governorate [Muhafazat Misr]), and possibly of other cities as well, from the turn of the century to the early 1950s.

3) Tax registers of agricultural lands.

Libraries

Central Library (al-Sayyidah Zaynab)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Alexandria Municipal Library
St. Catherine’s Monastery Library

Museums

Coptic Museum and Patriarchate

Record Offices

Department of Civil Status (under the Ministry of Interior)
Magles El Shaab Street
Kasr El Aini St
Cairo, Egypt

Telephone: +20 7958014
Fax: +20 7958048