Genealogy in Orne: Find Your Ancestors with This Guide

Genealogy Cheat Sheet - All the resources you need to find your roots in Orne: archives and records, images and videos, old maps...

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The Orne department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the Calvados,  the Manche, the Eure, the Eure-et-Loir, the Mayenne and the Sarthe and its territory consists of a large part of the former duchy of Normandy and Alençon.

 The archives of Orne

Orne Archives Online

Do your genealogical research by browsing the online archives of the departmental archives of Orne. Browse the civil records (from 1527), the census records (from 1786), military preparation and recruitment, the cadastre as well as the estate and absence records. 

Online Records

On FranceGenWeb: "Loose Acts" - Marriages - Marriages of Migrants - Marriages of Migrants from Orne - Notaries - Protestants

Genealogists of Orne – marriage and marriage contract searches

Transcriptions of parish registers of Flers and its surroundings 

Tables and transcriptions of 39,637 marriages from Bocage Virois 

Unusual Acts

Deed of transfer, double marriages, a bell founder buried like a King and more on the J. Marchal's website.

Migrations in Orne

Percheron emigration to New France

Tourouvre, main center of Percheron emigration to Canada

Political refugees from Spain in Orne in the 19th century

History of Italian immigrants in Normandy

Orne in Images

Videos

Horse Breeding – 1930

A Weekend in Bagnoles de l'Orne – 1935

With President Coty – 1954

The Perche in Search of Its Identity – 1976

Interview with a Farmer from Orne Participating in the March to Paris – 1980

Orne – Dday Overlord

Rhônes / Beauvain / Orne

Old Postcards and Pictures

On Gallica: Orne in Images 

On Clochers de France: the belfries of Orne in images

Fensch and Orne in Postcards 

On Caparama: Postcard collections of Orne

On communes.com: postcards of Athis-de-l'Orne and of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne

Old Maps of the Department

From Cassini's villages to today's communes: the department of the Orne

On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department

On Gallica: the old maps of the Orne

The History of Orne

List of Electors of the Orne Department, appointed under the Law of August 12, 1792, the fourth year of Liberty, first of Equality - 1792

Account of a journey made in the Orne department to verify the reality of a meteor observed at L'Aigle on the 6th Floréal year 11 - 1803

Orne Department Directory – 1809

Petition of the landowners and cattle dealers of the Orne department to Messieurs the deputies, against the lowering of the duty on foreign livestock - 1833

Excursion to Saint-Cénery-Le Géré - 1842

The Orne department, archaeological and picturesque – 1845

The Criminal Court of Orne during the Terror – 1866

Inhabitants of Orne at the beginning of the July Monarchy – 1965

Notes on primary education in Orne under the Second Empire – 1975

A potter's workshop at the end of the 12th century at La Roche-Mabille (Orne) – 1993

The breeding of work horses in Orne in the 19th century (1815-1900) - 2002

A glimpse of the evolution of postal traffic in Orne between 1847 and 1921 - 2003

The exploitation of Orne quarries from 1870 to 1939 - 2006

On Gallica: books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Orne department

Genealogy Sites in Orne

Genealogy Circles and Associations in Orne or Nearby

Genealogical Circle of Orne and Perche 

Genealogists of Orne

AGR Orne

Parisian Association of Norman Genealogy

Union of Genealogical and Heraldic Circles of Normandy 

Genealogical Assistance Brittany – Maine – Normandy

Happy researching! 

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