Côte d'Ivoire Emigration and Immigration

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How to Find the Records

Online Sources

• ANOM, French Overseas Civil Registration: Ivory Coast

Offices and Archives to Contact

National Archives of the Ivory Coast

Directeur des Archives Nationales de Côte d’Ivoire (Ministère d’Etat, Ministère de l’Intérieur et de la Sécurité)
BPV 123 Abidjan
Côte d’Ivoire
Telephone: 00225 07 93 13 5900225 07 93 13 59
Fax: 00225 20 21 75 78

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• Files relating to the immigration and emigration of native populations and with the natives of the colonies

border problems (2 EE 12 to 2 EE 13)

1) - Report on the indigenous families who left the country of Kong after the passage of the bands of Samory. 1903.

2) - File on the native French subjects retained in the Spanish and Portuguese islands of the Gulf of Benin. 1914.

3) - File relating to the exodus of the Agnis in Gold Coast and the events of Half-Assinie. 1917.

4) - Letter addressed to the civil affairs service in Dakar about the return of the emigrants from Assinie. 1918.

5) - Notes on the migratory movements of Liberians in French territory. 1918 - 1919.

6) - Nominative states of the cantons in which the natives of Haut-Sassandra had taken refuge. 1920.

7) - Correspondence exchanged between the Governor of Côte d'Ivoire and the Governor of the Gold Coast colony concerning the settlement of

various affairs of interest to the 2 colonies. 1895, 1918 - 1925. (LAC).

13) - Pass register. 1908-1910

Finding the Town of Origin in Ivory Coast

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Ivory Coast, see Ivory Coast Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Ivory Coast Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

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For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

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Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)