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3 FamilySearch collections · 1 archive · 5 places · 1800–2024

Sierra Leone

Where the records of Sierra Leone are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 1,285,009 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Sierra Leone

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 Sierra Leone without a subscription.

No national archive is recorded here yet, which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about Sierra Leone. FamilySearch has 3 collections covering it, running 1800–2024, 1,285,009 indexed records. No jurisdiction region covers Sierra Leone yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

5 places placed, 0 volumes walked. Not one of them has had its paper counted yet, so treat the shelf here as a list of somewhere to look rather than a list of what survives. Open Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leone too — the full list.

3 FamilySearch collections

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

Sierra Leone — nationwide 3

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.

Church and parish registers 1
Censuses and population lists 1
Probate, land and notarial 1

5 places, 0 volumes

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