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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

The Republic Archive Compound
Directorate of State Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey
Gayret Mahallesi 95. Street No:3
06170 Yenimahalle/ANKARA, Turkey

Telephone: +90 (312) 307 9000 (Ankara Central)
Fax: (0312) 315 10 00
E-mail: dab@devletarsivleri.gov.tr

Information and documents related to the genealogy research are not available in our archive. You can get information from the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs of the Ministry of Interior or the civil registry office you are affiliated with.

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The Ottoman Archives Complex
Directorate of State Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey
İmrahor Street
Sadabad, Kagithane
Istanbul, Turkey

Telephone: +90 (212) 314 9000 (İstanbul Central)
Fax: (0212) 314 90 01
E-mail: dab@devletarsivleri.gov.tr

Information and documents related to the genealogy research are not available in our archive. You can get information from the General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs of the Ministry of Interior or the civil registry office you are affiliated with.

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• Cadastral Department Archives [Tapu ve Kadastro Umum Mudurlugu Arşivi], in Ankara and Istanbul

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• Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate, Istanbul

• Armenian Catholic Archbishopric, Istanbul

Libraries

• Sulaymaniye Library in Istanbul

• Seat of the Mufti [Müftülük], in Istanbul
• Ottoman yearbooks

• Central and Eastern European Online Library - includes periodicals from Turkey and other parts of the Ottoman Empire

• Searchable index to Turkish Periodicals from 1923-1999

• Digital collections from the Ottoman period

• Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts

Museums

• Topkapi Museum, in Istanbul
• Ethnographic Museum, in Ankara