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How to Find the Records

Online Collections

1590-1928 Caribbean Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928, index; Also at American Ancestors ($), MyHeritage ($)
1591-1905 Caribbean Marriages, 1591-1905 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at: Ancestry($), American Ancestors($), Findmypast ($)
1666-1809 Santo Domingo (Haiti) French Overseas Civil Registration, 1666-1809, index and imagges.
1790-1906 Caribbean Deaths and Burials, 1790-1906 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images; Also at: Ancestry($) American Ancestors($)
1794-2012 Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Civil Registration, 1794-2012, images. Also at Ancestry ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Haiti, index and images, ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Haiti, index and images, ($)
British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Offices to Contact

Archives Nationales d'Haiti
22 Angle des Rues Borgella et Geffrard
Port-au-Prince
Haiti

Telephone: (509)36615151
Fax: (509)22468666

(509)22468668

Email: bertrandlouissaint@yahoo.fr ^[1]

Historical Background

"The US Department of State Reciprocity Schedule provides the following information about birth certificates: Births can be registered by either the father or the mother. If the child is born out of wedlock and is registered by the mother, the father is not specified and the child is registered with the surname of the mother. Extraits can be obtained from the National Archives ... If no record exists or cannot be found, the National Archives can prepare an extrait ... and including the text of a baptismal certificate. These negative extraits are considered unreliable as proof of relationship. (25 Aug. 2005)"^[2]

Coverage and Compliance

The president of the Insurance Association of Haiti, Fritz Decatalogne, said in an April 2004 article that "only 40 percent of the population possesses an acte de naissance" (birth certificate) (Haiti Press Network 8 Apr. 2004)." ^[2]

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth Records

Name of child
Gender
Baptism/birth date
Baptism/birth place
Father’s name
Mother’s name

Marriage Records

Names of bride and groom
Date of marriage
Place of marriage
Names of parents

Death Records

Name of the deceased
Birth date of the deceased
Ages of the deceased
Residence
Parent's name
Spouse's name
Event Date
Event Place

Hidden Civil Registration Records

The following tables list places in Haiti that can only be found in FamilySearch using the method described below.

Finding Hidden Records

To access these records:

From the FamilySearch main page click the Search menu and select Catalog to open the Catalog main page.
To open a search field, click either the Subjects link or the Keywords link. Make sure the Place field is blank.
From one of the tables below, choose the commune, communal section, or communal place that you wish to research.
In the Subjects or Keywords field, enter the name you chose in Step 3, followed by the word "Haiti."
Click the Search button.

Hidden Records by Departments

Below are tables for nine of the ten departments in Haiti. In some cases, the records cover only a section or place in the commune, rather than the entire commune.

Artibonite

Arrondissement	Communne	Place	Range	Comments
Dessalines	Dessalines		1845-1915
Dessalines	Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite	Savanne a Roche	1989-2015	communal section
Gonaïves	L'Estère		1950-2016
Gonaïves	Gonaïves	Petite Riviere de Bayonnaise	1989-2013	communal section
Gros-Morne	Anse Rouge	Port-a-Piment-du-Nord	2009-2015
Gros-Morne	Terre-Neuve		1845-2015
Marmelade	Saint Michel de l'Attalaye		1873-2014
Saint-Marc	Liancourt		1954-2015
Saint-Marc	Montrouis		1987-2015

Center

Arrondissement	Communne	Range
Hinche	Cerca-Carvajal	1950-2015
Hinche	Thomonde	1886-1915
Lascahobas	Lascahobas	1848-1915, 2004-2015
Lascahobas	Belladère	2004-2015
Lascahobas	Savanette	1907-2014
Mirebalais	Saut-d'Eau	1890-1916
Mirebalais	Boucan-Carré	2006-2014

Grand-Anse

Arrondissement	Communne	Place	Range	Comments
Anse d'Hainault	Anse-d'Hainault		1891-1915
Corail	Corail		1827-2005
Corail	Roseaux		1950-2004
Jérémie	Bonbon		1950-1985
Jérémie	Chambellan		1950-2003
Jérémie	Jérémie	Marfranc	1977-1985	communal section
Jérémie	Moron		1951-1986
Jérémie	Moron	Sources Chaudes	1952-2005	communal section

Nippes

Arrondissement	Communne	Range
Miragoâne	Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes	1828-1920
Anse-à-Veau	Anse-à-Veau	1830-2015
Anse-à-Veau	L'Asile	2009-2012

North

Arrondissement	Communne	Place	Range	Comments
Acul-du-Nord	Acul-du-Nord	Camp Louise	2007-2012	communal section
Acul-du-Nord	Acul-du-Nord	Grison Garde	2009-2015
Limbé	Limbé	Camp Coq	2005-2014	communal section
Limbé	Bas-Limbé		2008-2014
Plaissance	Pilate		1991-2015
Saint-Raphaël	Saint-Raphaël		1844-1860
Saint-Raphaël	Ranquitte		1844-1911

North East

Arrondissement	Communne	Range
Fort-Liberté	Perches	1847-1898
Ouanaminthe	Capotille	2006-2015
(le) Trou-du-Nord	Caracol	2008-2014
Vallières	Mombin-Crochu	1892-1916

West

Arrondissement	Communne	Place	Range
l'Arcahaie	l'Arcahaie	Saintard	2013-2015
l'Arcahaie	Cabaret		1848-1916
Croix-des-Bouquets	Thomazeau		1891-1915, 2014
Croix-des-Bouquets	Cornillon	Grand Bois	1830-1915, 2009-2014
La Gonâve	Anse-à-Galets		1997
La Gonâve	Pointe-à-Raquette.		1980
Léogane	Leogane	Trouin	2013-2016
Port-au-Prince	Kenscoff		1974-2016
Port-au-Prince	Kenscoff	Furcy	2010-2015

South East

Arrondissement	Communne	Range
Bainet	Côtes-de-Fer	1836-1915
Belle-Anse	Anse-à-Pitres	2001-2013
Belle-Anse	Grand-Gosier	1885-1912

South

Arrondissement	Communne	Place	Range	Comments
Aquin	Aquin	Vieux-Bourg-d'Aquin	1966-2006
Les Cayes	Chantal		1950-2015
Les Chardonnières	Les Chardonnières		1833-1912, 2011-2013
Les Chardonnières	Les Chardonnières	Rendel	1976-2006	communal section
Les Chardonnières	Les Anglais		1883-2005
Les Côteaux	Roche-à-Bateau		1951-2007

References

↑ Caribbean Archives Association, Migan, Directory of Caribbean Archival Institutions, (accessed 5 February 2021).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 UN Refugee Agency, refworld, Haiti: Procedure to obtain a birth certificate, Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.(accessed 5 February 2021).

[1] Caribbean Archives Association, Migan, Directory of Caribbean Archival Institutions, (accessed 5 February 2021).

[refworld-2] 2.0 ^2.1 UN Refugee Agency, refworld, Haiti: Procedure to obtain a birth certificate, Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.(accessed 5 February 2021).

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