Record Atlas
2 FamilySearch collections · 2 archives · 10 places · 1890–1977

Zimbabwe

Where the records of Zimbabwe are, who holds them, and what it costs to look. 0 indexed records reachable through FamilySearch alone.

Where to start in Zimbabwe

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 Zimbabwe without a subscription.

1 more institution is listed here and has never been checked — nobody has opened it, written to it, or found out what it holds. They are on the map as grey because that is what they are, and the honest reading of this page is 1 known-open, 1 unknown.

Write to National Archives of Zimbabwe for what is not online. FamilySearch has 2 collections covering it, running 1890–1977. No jurisdiction region covers Zimbabwe yet, so this atlas cannot say whose archive held this ground in a given year — and it will not guess.

10 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 Zimbabwe 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.

  • National Archives of Zimbabwe unsurveyed Zimbabwe

    National Archives of Zimbabwe — national archive of Zimbabwe. Promoted so the country has somewhere to write to at all; its address was opened and nothing else about it has been checked, including whether it holds anything genealogical.

And 12 worldwide providers reach Zimbabwe 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.

Zimbabwe — 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.

Probate, land and notarial 1
Cemeteries and burials 1

10 places, 0 volumes

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