Yemen Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Aden, Yemen, index and images, ($)
 * British India Office Births & Baptisms, index
 * British India Office Marriages, index ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Aden, Yemen, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials, index and images, ($)
 * British India Office Deaths & Burials, index ($)

Offices to Contact
The consular section of a Yemen Embassy may be able to help you request a Yemen birth, marriage or death certificate.

For a list of embassies, see List of Diplomatic Missions in Yemen and Yemeni Diplomatic Missions abroad.

Permanent Mission of Yemen to the United Nations in New York 413 East 51st Street New York, NY 10022

Telephone: 212-355-1730
 * 212-355-1731

E-mail: [mailto:yemenmissionny@gmail.com yemenmissionny@gmail.com]
 * [mailto:ymiss-newyork@mofa.gov.ye ymiss-newyork@mofa.gov.ye]

Coverage and Compliance
1973 Sourthern Census

1975 Northern Census

1986 Northern Census

1988 Southern Census

1994 First Census for Yemeni single state

2004 Includes: and more.
 * Names
 * Head of Household
 * Relationship to head of house
 * Age
 * Gender
 * Place of Birth
 * Nationality
 * Place of usual residence
 * Place of last previous residence

Colonial Records A Handbook of Arabia: a handbook compiled by British diplomats around the Persian Gulf. This handbook includes information about the tribes in Yemen and the areas they resided in.

The British kept administrative records during their occupation from 1839-1967. There are ~12,323 files in a collection that is kept in the British Library: Asian and African Studies. These files may or may not contain information or genealogical value.