Gabon Archives and Libraries


 * 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: [mailto:dgabd.info@gouv.ga 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 Facebook

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.