Tunisia Religious Records

Africa Tunisia

Marriage Contracts (Sidaq)
Research use: A primary source for verifying marriages.

Record type: Islamic civil marriage record.

Time period: 1500s - Present.

Contents: Names of marriage partners and date of marriage. Other information unknown.

Location: At Islamic law court [shari’a] archives in various cities.

Population coverage: Approximately 65%.

Reliability: Excellent.

Jewish Records
Registers of marriage for Portugese Jews who lived in Tunis in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, written in Hebrew, are purportedly available in the central archives at Tunis.