Antisèche - Genealogy in Algeria

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Antisèche - Genealogy in Algeria

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Archives in Algeria




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There is no really civil status in Algeria before 1830. Know, however, that it is possible to find marriage and death acts and inheritance acts dating from 1592 to 1856 at the Center for the National Archives of Algiers where the archives of Sharia court are preserved. Only 2/3 of the civil status can potentially be consulted but there is a lack of entire collections for many municipalities (such as Bordj, Bou Arreridj, Saïda, Tiaret ...). 


With regard to parish registers, the archives of the Catholic Church of Algeria were repatriated by the bishops of Algiers, Constantine and Oran in monasteries of nuns respectively to Nîmes at the Clarisses Monastery, At Visitation monastery in Tarascon (whose collection was scanned and indexed by the Gamt) and at Taulignan in Dominican nuns



Algeria archives in the National Overseas Archives


These free online registers allow you to access the civil status of several dozen Algerian municipalities (for the departments of Algiers, Constantine and Oran) between 1830 and 1919 for the European and Jewish populations. You can browse the birth, marriage and death registers with their decennial and annual tables, but also the annual tables of judgments as well as acts of recognition and divorce. A nominal search engine is available over the period 1830-1904. 


Are also viewed military registers in Algeria For the period 1866-1921.



Online resources 

Registers counting in Algeria On the Genevoute site

List of European soldiers native of Algeria

Migrant marriages for Algeria


Names and… names - anthroponymy and civil status in Algeria

North African Jewish names and first names

Old families of Constantine



Migration from and to Algeria


French Algeria

French Algeria, une histoire de la colonisation

Urban planning and colonization, French presence in Algeria

Algeria and Algerians under the colonial system. Historiographical Historiographical Approach

Algerian immigration in the time of colonization


Algerian immigration in France

Algerian immigration in France

Algerian immigration in France : histoire et actualité 

Algerian immigrants in France: a political history, 1912-1962




Algeria in pictures


Archive photos

Algeria collection of the ECPAD 

Archive photos in Algeria by Getty Images

100 photos of Algeria very old by Algeria press

Facebook page - Algeria Old postcards

Retro image - Erwan Le Vourch collection 

Images of Algeria on Gallica


Old cards in the country

Algeria's old cards on Gallica

Algeria's old cards on Wikimedia

Historical maps of EDMAPS Algeria



Genealogy sites useful for Algeria


Association sites 

Genealogy Algeria Morocco Tunisia (which has scanned/indexed/kept many collections: options of Alsaciens-Lorrins, Land concessions, convoys 1848, deaths, requests for concessions, deportees, civil status sheets, public and various functions, maritime registrants, electoral lists, weddings, births, naturalizations, passengers, pensions, census, road help, series M Departments, (06), baptisms, religious marriages as well as burials). 

Jewish genealogy circle

Constantine from yesterday to today

Harkis Dordogne association



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