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Census

Online Records

• 1906-1911 Search all records at Geneanet; Catalog of census records included for Algeria. These census records are primarily of French colonists, not native Algerians.
• Département d'Oran, fonds de la préfecture, sous-série 1 G, population Archival (Department of Oran, prefecture funds, sub-series 1 G, population archive), France Archives d'Outre-Mer; Hick, Daniel. Salt Lake City, UT: Filmés par la Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992. FS Microfilm 1811061;At various libraries (WorldCat) This book contains French census information from 1906, 1911, 1931, and 1954 for the Department of Oran in Algeria.

• Mers-el-Kébir - History and families of the village Mers-el-Kebir (Oran) in French Algeria, including census information.

Offices to Contact

National Archives of Algeria

20 rue Hassan Ben-namane
POB n 38
Brikahadem, Algiers
Telephone: (213) 021 54 16 20/21
Email: informatique@archives-dgan.gov.dz
or dgan@archives-dgan.gov.dz
Website

Background

• The National Archives of Algeria holds the administrative records of the Algerian government since its independence in 1962, as well as older Sharia court records from the Ottoman to the French colonial periods. (see "Information Recorded in the Records").

• The French attempted 19 census of the area between 1830-1962. While these censuses do provide information about both the native Algerians and French populations, there is more information about Europeans living in Algeria.

Information Recorded in the Records

• The National Archives of Algeria contain the administrative documents of the Algerian government since 1962, likely including the census records of 1966, 1977, 1987, 1998, and 2020. The older Sharia Courts Series obtained from the French in 1974 dates back to the Ottoman period and includes the following records: probate, marriage, divorce, declarations of lineage, and inheritance. This document (Arabic) describes the holdings of the Archive.

• The census records found in the Département d'Oran, fonds de la préfecture, sous-série 1 G, population Archival (1906, 1911, 1931, 1954) contain the following information about Algerian (mostly European) citizens: Births, marriages, deaths, population statistics and movements.

Strategy

FamilySearch is constantly working to gain access to new collections, check back later for more information about census records.