Personal, family, and associative archives:
The Archives and Documentation Service of the SNCF Group (SARDO) can manage privately originated archives from individuals or organizations, with the aim of making them available to researchers.
- Gifts: we are authorized to receive donations, formalized by a notarized act in accordance with the ‘ordinary form of contracts’ (Article 931 of the Civil Code), as well as manual donations through the physical delivery of the relevant archives.
- Bequests: we can accept bequests from individuals. Bequests must be included in a will, in one of the three forms recognized by the Civil Code (Article 969 and following).
Practical procedures:
If you wish to entrust archives to SARDO, please contact the Collection Valorization Division via the contact form.