Record Atlas
2 FamilySearch collections · 1 archive · 17 places · 1863–2003

Ghana

Where the records of Ghana are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 528,013 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Ghana

1 of the 1 checked source here can be opened tonight. 1is free images with no account. On top of that, 9 worldwide services reach Ghana without a subscription.

No national archive is recorded here yet, which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about Ghana. FamilySearch has 2 collections covering it, running 1863–2003, 528,013 indexed records. No jurisdiction region covers Ghana yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

17 places placed, 1 volume walked. Open Ghana on the map, or tell us what is missing.

The archives

  • Gazettes.Africa free Cape Town, South Africa

    Digitised government gazettes for 24 African countries, free and full-text searchable. A gazette is where a state prints the things it must announce — naturalisations, estate and insolvency notices, name changes, appointments — so it names ordinary people that no register indexes. The atlas held no gazette of any country before this one.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Ghana too — the full list.

2 FamilySearch collections

Grouped by the ground each one covers, nationwide. A free account opens the images; some are restricted to a Family History Centre.

Ghana — nationwide 2

1 more collections, contributed

A directory David assembled, sorted by what kind of record each one is. Read this differently from the rest of the page. The descriptions are his, not an archive's catalogue, and nobody here has opened the volumes behind them. Every link was tried on 2026-09-20 and answered; the ones that did not are not listed.

General historical archives 1

17 places, 1 volumes

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