PAH archives

The archives of the new building (Public Archiving House) :

Registers of births, deaths and inoculations :

These registers include all the births and deaths nationwide. Some registers, beginning with those of Damietta, date back to 1838, while all registers at the PAH end with 1961. However, som registers have not been delivered to the PAH until now .

The terriers (Mokalafat) :

- Registers of agricutural lands Moklafat (form 14 RT) beginning from 1905 land division .
- Registers of direction’s totalities (form 15 RT) beginning from 1905 land division .
- Registers of authorized area (form 1 area) 1901, 1907 .
- Registers of real – estate enumeration (form 32 RT) beginning from 1902 .
- Registers of revenues Mokalafa (form 34 RT) beginning from 1902 .
- Registers of the authorized budget (form 25 area) 1901, 1907 .

The Library :

- It includes 10.833 books of which the most important :

* Al-Waqae’a al-Mesryiah newspaper beginning from 1885 .
* Decretos (khedevy’s decisions) .
* Ambassadors’ agreements at Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
* General annual enumeration for Egyptian cotton beginning from 1911 .
* Treaties between Egypt and some foreign countries .
* Old Egyptian police law .
* Geographical guide for Egyptian cotton .

Daftarkhana (the old name of PAH) Archives (old building) :

Concerning the births :

- Registers of treasury concerned with legacies .
- Registers of births and infants inoculated (Ministry of Health) .
- Registers of deaths and death informs .
- Registers of population of the year 1264 Higri .

Documents of other ministries :

Ministry of Justice :

- Folders of judgments (civil - criminal -commercial) from 1894 to 1960. They are 103960 folders, nearly 41.584000 papers .
- Forensic minutes (from 1021 Hegiri to 1914 AC) .
- Personal and guardianship law suits (the last suit delivered was in 1956) .
- Civil courts .
- Licences and law suits .

Ministry of Education :

- Records concerned with general exams administration (Thanawyia Amma - technical intermediate diplomas - primary stage - preparatory stage - baccalaureate -Tawgehyia - feminine secondary stage) from 1894 to 1962. The folders count 3261, nearly 3261000 papers .
- High education records .
- Records of expenses paid by the pupils (Tanta educational administration -Shebeen Al-Kom educational administration only) .

Public Authority for Insurance and Pension :

Files of the celebrities :

- Files of the artists and authors :

Taha Hussein/ Solaiman Naguib- Mohamed Abdel-Quodous/ Nabawyia Mussa/ Ali Al-Garem Qasim Amin/ Abdel-Rahman Al-Rafaey / Ali Mubarak / Ismail Assem / Abbas Alam / Al-Mazny Zaki Tulaimat / Hussein Tawfiq / Ahmad Bek Shawqy .

- Files of Al-Azhar men of religion :

Al-Imam Muhamad Abdo/ Al-Sheikh Hassan Al-Atar/ Al-Sheik Hassouna Al-Nawawi/ Al-Sheikh Muhamad Al-Dahshour/ Abdel-Rahman Al-Bahrawi/ Muhamad Nagaty/ Al-Sheikh Ahmad Abu – Khatwa .

- Files of the politicians :

Muhamad Allouba (minister of state- minister of the religious endowments- minister plenipotentiary of Pakistan) / Ahmad Zewar/ Mahmoud Fahmy Al-Nuqrashi/ Muhamad Safwat/ Ahmad Mazloum/ Adly Yakan/ Ali Maher/ Makram Ebeid/ Muhamad Tawfiq Nassim/ Hamed Sery/ Ismail Sery/ Muhamad Talaat Harb/ Ahmad Orabi Pasha/ Amin Othman/ Saad Zaghloul/ Abdel-Rahman Azzam (the first secretary - general of the Arab League)/ Klout bek / Naguib Boutrous Ghaly Pasha/ Boutrous Youssif/Ismail Sedqy .

- The files of workers serving at the Egyptian government about 15695 files = 3.139.000 papers from 1830 to 1959 .
- Files of workers at the higher education .
- Files of workers at RTA .
- Files of Ministry Of Irrigation And Public Works .
- Files of governmental properties .
- Records of the higher education .
- Rewards of retirement .

Ministry of Health :

- Records of medical committee in Cairo .
- Registers of births and deaths with all their various types .

Ministry of Irrigation and Public Works :

- Portfolios of irrigation drains established on the lands of others. Irrigation works are 5810 portfolios, about 785000 papers .
- Portfolios of public utilities .

Governmental Property Authority :

- Portfolios of governmental properties .
- Survey maps (it is worth mentioning that the restoration of Taba was due to the help of a map kept in the Public Archiving House) .

Ministry of Defense :

- The financial branches (Archives of Al-Gabal Al - Ahmar-Ismailia - Al-Tal Al-Kebeer – Sues - Alexandria (Hikestep) - Assuit - the Engineering Organization - the administration of pension and insurance - air forces) .
- Store of recruitment military (Kora’a) starting 1885 .
- Archives of military medical records .
- Archives of ministry of defense (temporarily archives) .

Ministry of the Public Ma’aref (old name for the Ministry of Education) :

- Certificates of the Mohendes Khanah (old name for the faculty of engineering) from 1887 to 1962 .
- Certificates of Alsanyiah school (diploma of female teachers) from 1903 to 1913 .
- Certificates of Law School (Faculty of Law) from 1909 to 1912 .
- Certificates of Legal Judegement from 1925 to 1928 .
- Certificates of Al- Teb khanah (faculty of medicine) and nurses from 1899 to 1908 .

Procedures to get a document at PAH :

- An application concerning the type of the document required is written .
- The application is delivered to the administeration of Al-Mokalafat that searches the database for the presented application and extracts the required document and gives it to the applicant .