Genealogy in Deux-Sèvres: The Complete Guide

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Genealogy in Deux-Sèvres: The Complete Guide

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The Deux-Sèvres department was created during the French Revolution in 1790. It is bordered by the departments of Vienne, Charente and Charente-Maritime.


 Two-Sèvres Archives


Two-Sèvres Archives Online

Conduct your genealogical research by browsing the online archives of the Deux-Sèvres departmental archives. Browse the parish and civil registers, the cadastre, the population censuses, the military recruitment registers, the press, the iconographic funds, the registration tables, the foundlings or abandoned children  and the notarial archives.


Online Records

On FranceGenWeb: "Bulk Records" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages  - Marriages of Migrants from Deux-Sèvres - Notaries - Protestants

Indexing of parish registers for Arçais

Marriage contract records from Deux-Sèvres notaries

Records of Brie registers

Records of the Hospice in the commune of Oiron

Records of the Parish of Champdeniers

Records of acts by Master François Baraton by Bernard Debreil

Index of Argenton-Château 


Unusual Records

Macabre discovery, a treasure in the house, a royal harness and many more on the J. Marchal's website.

Unusual testimonies in the unusual records of Deux-Sèvres 


Migrations in Deux-Sèvres


The Deux-Sèvres emigration to Canada

Poitou-Charentes: History and memories of immigration

The situation of Spanish refugees in Poitou-Charentes


Deux-Sèvres in Images


Videos

Goat Farming – 1929

Urban planning in Niort – 1966

Living in Thouars – 1969

Moncoutant: an undesirable factory – 1972

La Garette – Poitevin Marsh: the witches – 1974

Noël d'autrefois – 1987


Old Images and Postcards

On Gallica: Deux-Sèvres in images

On Clochers de France: the belfries of Deux-Sèvres in images

On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the monuments to the dead

On CPArama: postcards of Deux-Sèvres

On CPA Bastille 91: old postcards of Deux-Sèvres

On communes.com: Postcards of Niort

Old images of Deux-Sèvres

Old Maps of the Department

On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department

On Gallica: the old maps of the Deux-Sèvres


The History of Deux-Sèvres


History of the Deux-Sèvres department

Statistics of the Deux-Sèvres department – 1802

Journal of Deux-Sèvres, political, literary, commercial, of the Society of Agriculture and the Academy – 1830

History of the superior administration of the Deux-Sèvres department – 1846

History of the Deux-Sèvres department, under the Consulate, the Empire, the First Restoration and the Hundred Days, 1800-1815 – 1848

History of the Deux-Sèvres department under the Constituent Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, the Convention and the Directory. First period from June 7, 1790 to March 19, 1800 – 1863

History of the Deux-Sèvres department under the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, 1815-1830 – 1864

The Church and the Revolution in Niort and in Deux-Sèvres – 1870

On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Deux-Sèvres department

GenCom: to learn everything about a commune in Deux-Sèvres


Genealogy Sites in Deux-Sèvres


Genealogy Circles and Associations in Deux-Sèvres or nearby

Deux-Sèvres GenWeb

Généa79

Val de Sèvre Genealogy


Genealogy Blogs about Deux-Sèvres

The Tree of Our Ancestors

The commune of Saivres

The Blog of the Deux-Sèvres Genealogy Circle

Nelly, ancestor of Poitou

La Drôlesse, genealogy in Poitou and Anjou

Frédéric Pontoizeau-Bouchet's Blog

Parentajhe a moe 


Happy researching! 


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