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Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Offices to Contact

Location: Registration offices in Dakar, St. Louis, and other major cities in Senegal. For the Gambia, Oral History and Antiquities Division in Banjul. Copies of much of the civil registration for Senegal during this time period is in Paris in the Archives Nationales, Section Outre-Mer.

Historical Background

Coverage and Compliance

1730 to present

Note: * The 1730 date is based on the record listing completed in the national archives in 1983.^[1]

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Population coverage: Estimated to be 90% of the French and British colonial population and about 50% of the African population of Senegal and the Gambia.

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

Name
Birth date
Parents
Father’s occupation and residence
Sometimes age of mother
Names of witnesses and their residences, occupations, and sometimes relationships

Marriage Records

Names of bride and groom
Residence
Date of marriage
Sometimes ages and names of parents or sponsors

Death Records

Name
Date of death and burial
Age
Residence at the time of death
Occupation
Cause of death

References

↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Senegal and the Gambia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.
↑ The World Bank, The State of Identification Systems in Africa, World Bank Publications, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, (accessed 20 November 2020).

[profile-1] The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Senegal and the Gambia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.

[World_Bank-2] The World Bank, The State of Identification Systems in Africa, World Bank Publications, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, (accessed 20 November 2020).

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