Libya Genealogical Records

Newspapers Covering Libya

Name Card Index to AP Stories (1905-1990)

An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.

Subject Card Index to AP Stories (1937-1985)

An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.

AP Stories & Newsfeatures (1937-1985)

An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.

Libya Directories & Gazetteers

CIA World Factbook (1994)

A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.

World Foreign Gazetteer (1998)

Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.

Libya Cemeteries

Billion Graves (1200-Present)

Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.

Libya Histories & Books

Ancestry Member Stories (6000 BC-Present)

Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.

Ancestry Member Photos & Documents (6000 BC-Present)

Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.

Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Libya

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.

Medieval Nobility of the Muslim World (500-1512)

Genealogies of the religious leaders and nobility of Muslim Africa and Asia.

Ancestry Member Family Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Ancestry World Tree (6000 BC-1997)

A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.

Libya Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records

FamilySearch Community Trees (6000 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.

Medieval Nobility of the Muslim World (500-1512)

Genealogies of the religious leaders and nobility of Muslim Africa and Asia.

Genealogics (1400 BC-Present)

A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.

Libya Maps

Old Maps Online (1497-2010)

An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.

Historical Description

Lybia hath on the East, Nilus; West, the Atlantick Ocean; North, Numidia; and South, the Land of the Negros.

This Countrey is a Desart, dry and sandy, utterly void of Springs and Rivers, so that a man may travel eight dayes or more without finding water. The Desarts are of divers shapes, some covered with Gravel, others with Sand, both without water; here and there is a Lake, sometimes a shrub, or a little Grass. The Merchants that travel to Tombuto, or other places this way, carry water with them on Camels; and if water fail, they kill their Camels and drink the water which they wring out of their guts. They live without form of Law, in manner of brute Beasts; they are most notorious Thieves, and very dangerous to Merchants; yet there live among them many Africans, civil, courteous entertainers of Strangers.

A Geographical Description of the World (1671) by George Meriton

Most Common Surnames in Libya

RankSurnameIncidenceFrequency
1Ali309,1061:20
2Salem147,3151:42
3Mohamed137,5221:45
4Ahmed117,9371:53
5Saleh82,1731:76
6Hassan78,3411:80
7Omar70,2511:89
8Mohammed67,2711:93
9Ramadan51,9431:120
10Fathi48,9631:128
10Khalifa48,9631:128
12Abdo47,6861:131
13Saad44,2801:141
14Madi40,8731:153
15Bashir40,4481:154
16Ibrahim40,0221:156
17Naas37,4671:167
18Faraj37,0421:169
19Abdalla36,6161:171
19Issa36,6161:171
19Omran36,6161:171
22Mansour35,3391:177
23Sharif34,0611:183
23Sherif34,0611:183
25Abu33,6351:186
26Amer32,3581:193
27Othman31,9321:196
28Hussein31,0811:201
29Khalil30,6551:204
30Farag29,8041:210
31Ahmad29,3781:213
32Khan28,9521:216
33Farhat28,5261:219
34Said28,1011:222
35Shaban25,9721:240
36Badi23,4171:267
36Milad23,4171:267
36Younis23,4171:267
39Awad22,5661:277
40Ayad22,1401:282
40Bader22,1401:282
40Taher22,1401:282
43Belhaj21,2881:293
43Moftah21,2881:293
45Fituri20,8631:299
45Turki20,8631:299
47Ashour20,4371:306
47Oun20,4371:306
49Hamed20,0111:312
49Rajab20,0111:312
49Shebani20,0111:312
52Singh19,5851:319
52Suliman19,5851:319
54Ammar19,1591:326
54Arebi19,1591:326
54Mustafa19,1591:326
57Khaled18,7341:333
58Hamza18,3081:341
59Abdallah17,0311:367
59Daw17,0311:367
59Salama17,0311:367
62Aziz16,1791:386