Algeria Civil Registration

Online Collections

 * 1830-1962 - Archives nationales d'outre-mer, births, marriages, deaths of non-Afghans. Index and images.
 * 1794-2018 - All Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations..., for Algeria, Ancestry.com ($)

Offices to Contact
National Archives of Algeria (Centre Nationale des Archives (Algeria)) 20 Rue Hassan Bennamane, BP N°38, 16000 Birkhadem 16029, Algeria Telehone: +213 21 54 16 20

Ministre des Affaires Etrangres Direction des Franais l'Etranger Service Central de l'Etat-Civil 11, rue Maison Blanche 44000 Nantes, France Tel: 0826 080 604 (from the U.S. tel: 00 33 1 41 86 42 47) Fax: 02.51.77.36.99

Historical Background
Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths for less than 100 years is kept by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs – Central Department for Births, Marriages and Deaths.

"From 1830 to 1962 the so-called European civil status registers were established in two copies.... When Algeria gained independence, these registers remained in Algeria.... The Ministry of Foreign Affairs undertook between 1967 and 1972 the reproduction on microfilm of part of these registers, approximately two-thirds. Some municipalities are missing altogether and others are incomplete. At the request of the Algerian government, the acts concerning the natives were to be concealed during the microfilming. These microfilms have been digitized. On the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, an alphabetical base of acts from 1830 to 1904, with names and surnames, was established in 2003, which facilitates access to digitized images."

Census Records
The French attempted 19 census of the area between 1830-1962, however these censuses provide more information for the Europeans living in Algeria than the native population. The last census while Algeria was under French rule was in 1960.

There were other censuses created in 1966, 1977, 1987, 1998, and 2020. These documents include information about:
 * Name
 * Age
 * Sex
 * Organized by household with relationships to the head of house

Information Recorded in the Records
Births
 * Name of child
 * Date and place of birth
 * Name, age, and occupation of father
 * Name and age of mother

Marriages
 * Names of bride and groom
 * Date and place of marriage
 * Occupation
 * Dates and places of birth
 * Names of parents
 * Names and ages of witnesses

Deaths
 * Name of deceased
 * Date and place of death