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• 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 and Libraries

General Directorate of National Archives, National Library and Gabonese Documentation
Direction Générale des Archives Nationales de la Bibliothèque Nationale et de la Documentation Gabonaise
PO Box: 1188
Libreville, Gabon

Telephone: (214) 01 73 02 39
Email: dgabd.info@gouv.ga
Fax:+(241) 73 28 71

French Colonial Archives

National Archives of Overseas (ANOM)
29 chemin du moulin de Testas - CS50062
13182 Aix-en-Provence
CEDEX 5 France

Telephone: + 33 (0)4 42 93 38 50
E-mail: anom.aix@culture.gouv.fr

• 1845 to 1918 - Overseas National Archives, Gabon

Museums

Musée National des Arts et Traditions du Gabon
Libreville, Gabon

Phone: +241 11723158
E-mail: contact@mnart.ga
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Record Offices

Civil registrars, who are the only authorities empowered to draw up birth certificates, include prefects and sub-prefects; mayors, borough mayors and their deputies; and the heads of diplomatic missions or consuls and their deputies (Civil Code, part 1, article 157) In civil registry offices, the vital events are recorded in a large-format book with detachable sheets. The three sections of the book are divided as follows: one is kept in the office for archives, the second is sent to the clerk of the court, and the third is given to the declarant.