Senegal Notarial Records
| Senegal Wiki Topics |
|
| Senegal Beginning Research |
| Record Types |
| Senegal Background |
| Senegal Genealogical Word Lists |
|
|
| Local Research Resources |
Notarial Records
Research use: Very useful supplement to civil and parish records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.
Record type: Marriages, deaths, bequests (legacies), property sale and transfer inventories, etc.
Time period: 1792 to present.
Contents: Wills, marriage contracts, leases, sales, inventories, etc. containing names, dates, relationships and other vital information.
Location: National archives, Dakar. No notarial records have been identified for the Gambia.
Population coverage: Approximately 25% of the total population; 70% of the French colonial population (in Senegal only).
Reliability: Good.[1]
References
- ↑ The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Senegal and the Gambia,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.