Sunday August 20, 2023, the General Directorate of the National Archives of Haiti (ANH) celebrated the 163rd anniversary of the creation of this decentralized institution, founded on August 20, 1860, under the presidency of Fabre Nicolas Geffrard.

The National Archives of Haiti's mission is to ensure the preservation of documents produced by the Haitian central administration, as well as the management of civil status.

The Ministry of Communication welcomed the determination of the Director General Jean Wilfrid Bertrand, of the ANH and encouraged him and his entire team to hold firm their commitment and that of the Government to recover, protect, process and make accessible all administrative documents and historical archives of the country.

This century-old institution is considered a guardian of our heritage. According to the leaders of this institution, significant progress has been made in the training of technical staff, the rescue of funds threatened with destruction, the registers of accounts and correspondence, as well as all the civil status registers from 1804 to the present day.

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