Côte d'Ivoire Notarial Records

Ivory Coast

Notarial records
Research use: Very useful supplement to civil and church records; marriage contracts and wills usually link several generations.

Record type: Marriages, deaths (legacies), property sale and transfer, inventories.

Time period: 1900 to present.

Contents: Wills, marriage contracts, leases, sales, inventories, etc., containing names, dates, relationships and other vital information.

Location: Ivory Coast National Archives and Archives Nationales, Paris, in the Archives de Colonies, section D.

Population coverage: Approximately 70% of French colonials, and 35% of the Ivorians.

Reliability: Good.

Accessibility: Good, by correspondence.