Ogun State, Nigeria Genealogy

Guide to State of Ogun family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Information
Ogun State is a state in South-western Nigeria. It borders Lagos State to the South, Oyo and Osun states to the North, Ondo State to the east and the republic of Benin to the west. Abeokuta is the capital and largest city in the state.

It was created in February 1976 from the former Western State.

History
Ogun, state, western Nigeria, created in 1976 and comprising former Abeokuta and Ijebu provinces of former Western state, the latter carved out of former Western region in 1967. Ogun is bounded by Oyo and Osun states to the north, Lagos state to the south, Ondo state to the east, and the Republic of Benin to the west. It is covered predominantly by tropical rain forest and has wooded savanna in the northwest.

Sodeke (Shodeke), a hunter and leader of the Egba refugees who fled from the disintegrating Oyo empire, founded about 1830 a principality at Abeokuta in what is now the north-central part of the state. Most of the inhabitants of Ogun state are members of the Egba and Egbado subgroups of the Yoruba people.

Genealogy

 * Africa Surname & Regional Genealogy Sites


 * Genealogy


 * Family History & the Collections of the Royal Geographical Society

Cemeteries

 * Osun


 * Cemeteries

Websites
Ogun State Government (retrieved 13 April 2010)


 * Churches Ijebue Ode, Ogun State


 * Churches Iperu, Ogun State