Genealogy in the Ardennes: The Complete Guide

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Genealogy in the Ardennes: The Complete Guide

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The Ardennes department was created during the French Revolution in 1790. It is bordered by the departments of Meuse, the Marne and theAisne

              

 Ardennes archives


Ardennes archives online

Start your search for ancestors in the departmental archives. Browse genealogical sources in the parish and civil records, the military draft records and census, the inheritance and absence records, the notary records and the alphabetical indexes of mortgage records. Also search for information in the iconographic sources: old cadastrepostcards and old posters


Online records

On FranceGenWeb: "Records in bulk"MarriagesMigrant marriagesMigrants from Ardennes Notary records Protestants

Ardennes Archive

Racine d'Ardennes

Genealogy of Michel Toussaint

Genealogy of Isabelle Pintart


Unusual records

Midwife election, teacher contract, and glacial winter on the J. Marchal's site.

Unusual testimonies in Ardennes archives


Migrations in the Ardennes


History and memories of immigration in the Champagne-Ardenne region

From assimilation to integration: immigrants in Champagne-Ardenne in the 19th and 20th centuries

1919-1939: mayors of rural communes in the Ardennes facing foreigners

Immigration in the Ardennes 1919-1939

Representation of immigration in Belgium

Foreign labor and the labor movement in the 19th century: the example of Belgians in the border Ardennes

Champagne-Ardenne, land of founders of New France



The Ardennes in Images

Videos

Around Bastogne – 1945

Battle of Malmedy– 1945

The Ardennes Salient Shrinks– 1945

In the Ardennes, German Atrocities, Malmedy Camp – 1945

British Advance in the Snow– 1945

Sedan– 1947

Ardennes, capital Charleville-Mézières– 1966

Father Bonnaventure Fieullien- 1973


Old Images and Postcards

On Gallica: the Ardennes in images

On Clochers de France: the bells of the Ardennes in images

On Mémorial GenWeb: postcards of the memorials to the fallen 

Collection of old postcards of the Ardennes


Old Maps of the Department

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

On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department

On Gallica: old maps of the Ardennes


The History of the Ardennes


The first half of the 17th century in the current territory of the Ardennes department

The ferme générale in the Ardennes in 1738. The testimony of Helvétius

The Ardennes and the Revolution of 1789

The peasant of the Ardennes forest

Ardennes Biography or history of the Ardennais who stand out for their writings, their actions, their virtues, or their mistakes

The banks of the Semoy in Ardenne

Mutualism in the Ardennes: Regional specificities, dynamism, and achievements (1850-1955)

Charleville College and secondary education in the Ardennes from 1854 to 1877

Traditions, customs, legends, and tales of the Ardennes

The wild boar of the Ardennes

Review of Ardenne and Argonne

The Ardennes during the Great War (1914-1918)

A village in the Ardennes, 1944



The books and the press on the department on Gallica



The 50 most common surnames in the Ardennes


Top 10 surnames in the Ardennes: 

  • LAMBERT
  • GUILLAUME
  • LEFEVRE
  • PETIT
  • SIMON
  • MARTIN
  • DUPONT
  • HENRY
  • BERTRAND
  • GERARD


the other 40 most popular surnames in the department (according to the INSEE File) : 

  • FRANCOIS
  • LAURENT
  • LEROY
  • GILLET
  • CHARLIER
  • HUBERT
  • RICHARD
  • NICOLAS
  • LALLEMENT
  • THOMAS
  • MICHEL
  • LOUIS
  • PONCELET
  • BERNARD
  • DUBOIS
  • MEUNIER
  • NOEL
  • JACQUES
  • MATHIEU
  • REMY
  • CAMUS
  • HUSSON
  • ROBERT
  • LEJEUNE
  • HUART
  • ROUSSEAUX
  • PIERRARD
  • BOURGEOIS
  • ARNOULD
  • LEFEBVRE
  • JACQUEMIN
  • LEBRUN
  • DIDIER
  • ALEXANDRE
  • COLAS
  • THIRY
  • LECLERE
  • GODART
  • MARCHAL
  • COLLIGNON


Genealogy Sites in the Ardennes


Genealogy Circles and Associations in the Ardennes

Ardennes Genealogy

Ardennes Archives

Ardennes Genealogy Warnécourt

Genealogy in the Ardennes

Ardennes Genealogy and Heraldry Circle


Genealogy Blogs in the Ardennes

Anne Ludwig’s Genealogy Blog

MarcM’s Blog


Useful Social Networks

Facebook: Archives départementales des ArdennesArdennes Genealogy

Twitter: Archives Ardennes



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