The professional Genealogist:

Means

 

The profession has legal tools to carry out its missions which are the mandate and the contract of revelation.

The mandate is entrusted to the genealogist, either by a notary in charge of settling an estate for the purpose of seeking its potential beneficiaries or by a presumptive heir to permanently establish his quality.

The contract of revelation commits the genealogist to revealing to the heir an open right to his advantage but without his knowledge and to provide justifications.

Conversely, if the genealogist achieve its ends, the heir to abandon him a part from its share in the estate, the amount, fixed in advance, depends on the degree of relationship, the importance of assets ... etc. ..

If he could not, all costs advanced by the genealogist will stay at his charge.

 

 Work tools

To carry through its research, the genealogist has access to public records:

Civil status and transcribed acts

The law of 15 July 2008 on archives was published in the Official Government Register.

New terms of access to archives are set up:

- 75 years: Civil status, court records, recordings, notarial archives, registration numbers records ...

- 75 years: Personnel Records,

- 120 years: Medical Records: from the date of birth of the person if the death is not known,

- 50 years: Medical Records: from the date of birth of the person if the death is known,

- Genealogists have special permission from the Prosecutor to consult the registry office inaccessible to the public,

- Census of population,

- Declarations of succession,

- Electoral rolls,

- Records of recruiting personnel numbers etc. ....

Access to acts of civil status is governed by Decret No. 62-921 of August 3, 1962 which amends certain rules relating to acts of civil status