Saint Martin Civil Registration
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Online Collections
- 1773-1907 - Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer, Saint Martin Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1770-1907, index and images.
- Civil records for Saint Martin are included in WieWasWie.
Offices to Contact
Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer
29, chemin du moulin de Testas
CS 50062
13182 Aix-En-Provence Cedex 5
France
Telephone: 00 33 (0)4-42-93-38-50
Fax: 00 33 (0)4-42-93-38-89
E-mail: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr
Historical Background
Saint Martin is the northern half of the island of Saint Martin and is a collectivity of France. The other half of the island is Sint Maartin, a constituent country of the Netherlands. The border has gone back and forth but is now stable. Few of the native peoples survived. The Spanish had the island for a short time. Massive numbers of African slaves were brought to the island in the 1600s. Therefore the people of the island may have Dutch, French and African ancestry with a little bit of native peoples and Spanish ancestry.<ref>Wikipedia contributors, Saint Martin (island), (accessed 26 March 2021).