Haiti Genealogy

Caribbean  Haiti

Guide to Haiti ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Getting started with Haiti research
Haiti is a country occupying the western third of Hispaniola Island in the West Indies which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Hispaniola Island is one of the Greater Antilles Islands on the northern edge of the Caribbean Sea helping to separate it from the North Atlantic Ocean. The island lies between Cuba on the west and Puerto Rico on the east. See the CIA Factbook about Haiti.

Jurisdictions
Spain 1493, France took over the western side of the island 1697.

Research Tools

 * Searchable database for Haiti
 * Where can you find civil registers for Haiti
 * Listing of all records collections for Haiti available on FamilySearch.org
 * Haiti genealogical resources
 * Facebook group Haitian Genealogy created to help those from Haiti/Saint Domingue and Dominican Republic/Saint Domingue learn the history of their ancestors and country. The author of this site is willing to assist. Claudy Joseph-St.Germain Lavin. He can be reached at saintgenealogy@gmail.com (accessed 2013)
 * Facebook group Genealogie Haiti Created to help those from Haiti learn the history of theirs ancestors and country. The author of this site is willing to assist via his own website:www.genealogiehaiti.com. Cham Yvenor, He can reached at chamyvenor@gmail.com (accessed 2015)

A wiki article describing an online collections is found at:


 * Haiti, Port-au-Prince Civil Registration (FamilySearch Historical Records)

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