Project: Kenya/Resources

Resources for Kenyan Research

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• Wikipedia:
  • Kenya
  • Counties of Kenya
  • Culture of Kenya
  • Demographics of Kenya
  • History of Kenya
  • Languages of Kenya
  • Religion in Kenya
  • Index of Kenya-related articles

• Mapper: Key Facts about Kenya

• Family Search:
  • Kenya Genealogy
  • Kenya Record Finder

• Ancestry.com: UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969

• Cindy's List: Resources for all of Africa

• Facebook: African Genealogy Research Community

• Europeans in East Africa: There is a free resource at Europeans in East Africa. It holds information on people of European origin who lived and worked in East Africa from about 1880 to 1939. It concentrates mainly on Kenya, but there are a some entries for Uganda and Tanzania. (New)

• Kenyan National Archives (KNA):
  • Official Homepage
  • Navigating the Kenya National Archives, article published by Cambridge University Press. May be purchased or can be accessed via institutional partners (using your university or library login). A key support for those visiting the KNA in person. (New)

• Syracuse University: Kenya National Archive Collections
  • a collection of documents of the Kenyan government during the colonial period to independence. Microfilm collections available onsite at Syracuse, New York.

• Kenya National Library Service: Official Homepage

• The National Archives, United Kingdom: Official Home Page

• WorldGenWeb: KenyaGenWeb

• Kenya Gazette Archive (1899 to present): (New)
  • The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the Kenyan government. It contains announcements that are published for general public information (e.g., probate notices, electoral lists, land/business transfers, jury duty lists, etc.), as well as notices about new legislation. It is published weekly, with occasional releases of special editions.
  • Kenya Gazettes 1906-present Laws.Africa and AfricanLII have digitized and published more than 35,000 African gazettes from 19 African countries and regional economic communities on https://gazettes.africa/, freely available to all. Search and Advanced Search options are available. Downloading or saving of these editions is possible.
  • Kenya Gazette Archive on Google Books (1899 to present) The search engine for the Kenya Gazette Archive has been developed by the National Council for Law Reporting and Google Inc to enable full-text search within and across the collection of Kenya Gazette editions spanning over a century. Downloading or saving any issue is not enabled for now, but users can copy and share a link to any record in the archive. There is a “permalink” tool on the search result page (an icon that looks like a linked chain). However, by using the print screen feature a user can obtain a screen grab of any portion of the content displayed on the screen, save and print it out.
  • Online Kenya Gazette Archive Search from 2005-present Website of the The National Council for Law Reporting (known as Kenya Law). Search and Advanced Search options are available. Downloading or saving of these editions is possible.

• Online death and funeral notices (New)
  • RIP Kenya: Death and funeral notices from 2020 to present. The site can be searched by any search term (e.g., name, place).
  • Life in Legacy Kenya: Death and funeral notices mostly from 2016 and 2017. Site does not seem to be active any more.
  • Nation Transitions: Recent death and funeral notices

• Newspapers: (New)
  • The Daily Nation
  • The Standard
  • The Star
  • The East African
  • Taifa Leo (in Swahili)
  • The Elephant

• Images:
  • Some galleries and collections permit WikiTree to use images found on their websites. See: Galleries and Collections which have given Permission for use of Images. These are not Kenyan specific, but many of the sites listed will have images of interest (e.g., Flickr: The CommonsLink, Wikimedia Commons, etc.)

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