Genealogy Resources: African Resources

A group for Jews researching their Egyptian history.

For researchers of diverse Islamic Worlds

Written in 2014, it gives a good overview of the history, naming conventions, and holding at Family Search.

Censuses of the Jewish inhabitants of the Alexandria and the Holy Land, including Sidon (Saida) and Beirut, were compiled by Sir Moses Montefiore between the years 1839 and 1875.

National Library of Egypt

Search the Nigerian National Archives

List of Databases held at the National Archives in South Africa.

Tunisian genealogy

The French National Archives of the Overseas Territories.

The archives of the Portuguese Empire. Among its holdings are records created in 15th-20th century related to colonial Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea, India, Macau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor, Uruguay, and other locales

Plans, maps and aerial photographs of Belgium and Central Africa online. A cooperation by the National Geographic Institute, the Royal Library, the State Archives and the Royal Museum for Central Africa.

The Kenya National Archives is a collection of documents of the Kenyan government during the colonial period to independence.

Digitized as part of the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme.

Broadly speaking, our collections reflect the British interaction with Africa and Asia over the last 250 years, and include archives of missionary societies, NGOs and campaign groups, and business organisations, as well as papers of individuals, including diplomats, campaigners, and academics.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history.

Hosted at Vanderbilt University, the SSDA is dedicated to identifying, cataloging, and digitally preserving endangered archival materials documenting the history of Africans and their descendants in the Atlantic World. Its largest and oldest collections were generated by the Catholic Church; the baptismal records preserved in Slave Societies are the oldest and most uniform serial data available for the history of Africans in the Atlantic World and offer the most extensive information regarding their ethnic origins.
Contains information related to: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Florida, Angola, Uruguay, Benin, and Mexico