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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 FamilySearch Library may have microfilmed and/or digitized copies of them.

Archives

National Archives of Guinea (Les Archives Nationales)
Conakry, Guinea

French Colonial Archives

National Archives of Overseas (ANOM)
29 chemin du moulin de Testas - CS50062
13182 Aix-en-Provence
CEDEX 5 France

Telephone: + 33 (0)4 42 93 38 50
Email: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr

• 1867 to 1919 - Overseas National Archives, Guinea

Endangered Archives

• Endangered Archives: Western Africa

Libraries

National Library of Guinea (Bibliothèque Nationale de Guinée)
Conakry, Guinea

"Guinea's National Library is currently situated within the nation's museum complex in Conakry. The library has its own dedicated building within the complex though it struggles to accommodate its growing collection of materials. Among its collection are First Republic theses, journals, newspapers, and monographs, in addition to a unique complete collection of Guinea's Syliphone recording label, with all 159 vinyl recordings transferred to compact disc format.

"Guinea's National Library also houses journals of the Sékou Touré era, hundreds of sociopolitical and anthropological studies written in the pre-independence era by Guinea's French colonial administrators, university theses dating back to the Touré era, a significant collections of Présence Africaine and a large collection of publications by the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, as well as copies of Horoya Hebdo, Guinea's weekly newspaper. Several volumes of Sékou Touré's Tomes are held, in addition to both volumes of the "Livre blanc." The library's collection also extends to photographic material dating to the 1920s."

Museums

Sandervalia National Museum of Guinea (Musée national de Sandervalia)
2nd Ave, Conakry, Guinea

Phone: +224 622 07 22 87
Wikipedia: Sandervalia National Museum

Record Offices

The mayor of each town is the official authority in charge of registering all vital events for his or her town.