Senegal Notarial Records

Africa Senegal

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.