Haiti Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * 1666-1809 Santo Domingo (Haiti) French Overseas Civil Registration, 1666-1809, index and imagges.
 * 1794-2012, images. Also at Ancestry ($)
 * 1590-1928, index
 * 1790-1906, index.
 * 1591-1905, index.


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Haiti, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Haiti, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)

Offices to Contact
Archives Nationales d'Haiti 22 Angle des Rues Borgella et Geffrard Port-au-Prince Haiti

Telephone: (509)36615151 Fax: (509)22468666
 * (509)22468668

Email: [mailto:bertrandlouissaint@yahoo.fr bertrandlouissaint@yahoo.fr]

Historical Background
"The US Department of State Reciprocity Schedule provides the following information about birth certificates:

Births can be registered by either the father or the mother. If the child is born out of wedlock and is registered by the mother, the father is not specified and the child is registered with the surname of the mother. Extraits can be obtained from the National Archives ... . There may be a fee for this service. If no record exists or cannot be found, the National Archives can prepare an extrait stating that the birth record could not be located and including the text of a baptismal certificate. These negative extraits are considered unreliable as proof of relationship. There may be a fee for this service. (25 Aug. 2005)"

Coverage and Compliance
"Furthermore, the president of the Insurance Association of Haiti [Association des assurances d'Haïti], Fritz Decatalogne, stated in an April 2004 article that [translation] "only 40 percent of the population possesses an acte de naissance" (Haiti Press Network 8 Apr. 2004)."

Hidden Civil Registration Records
The following tables list civil records for Haiti comunes that are not accessible in FamilySearch using the usual search mehod. In other words, these places are NOT visible in the "Places within Haiti" catalog page.

Accessing Hidden Records
To access these records:
 * 1) From the FamilySearch main page click the Search menu and select Catalog to open the Catalog main page.
 * 2) To open a search field, click either the Subjects link or the Keywords link. Make sure the Place field is blank.
 * 3) From one of the tables below, choose the comune, comunal section, or comunal place that you wish to research.
 * 4) In the Subjects or Keywords field, enter the name you chose in Step 3, followed by the word "Haiti."
 * 5) Click the Search button.

Hidden Records by Departments
Below are tables for nine of the ten departments in Haiti. In some cases, the records cover only a section or place in the comune, rather than the entire comune.