Genealogy in the Bas-Rhin: Your Ancestors in the Archives

Genealogy Cheat Sheet - Many free resources to help you with your genealogical research in the Bas-Rhin

Genealogy in the Bas-Rhin: Your Ancestors in the Archives

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The Bas-Rhin department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Haut-Rhin, the Vosges, the Meurthe-et-Moselle, and the Moselle



 Bas-Rhin Archives


Bas-Rhin Archives Online

Search the digitized archives of Bas-Rhin in the civil records and the population censuses


The archives of the City and the EuroMetropolis of Strasbourg



Online Records 

On FranceGenWeb: "Miscellaneous Records" Marriages Migrant MarriagesMarriages of Migrants from Bas-Rhin Notaries Protestants

Online Records - 67

Genealogy of Marriages in Val-de-Villé from 1600 to the Beginning of Civil Records

Marc and Luc Mathern's Personal Page


Unusual Records

A sharp and intense cold, a crossing of the Rhine on foot, a sacred genealogy and many others on the J. Marchal's website.

Unusual Testimony in the Bas-Rhin Archives



Migrations in Bas-Rhin


Human mobility in Alsace. Statistical presentation essay, 14th-18th centuries


These Alsatians from elsewhere


Alsatian emigration in the 19th century


Alsace and the turning point of 1918: Expulsions, migrations, mobilities


Alexis Keller: Alsatians in Algeria between 1830 and 1870


Aging European migrants in the streets of Strasbourg


Foreigners in Alsace



The Bas-Rhin in images

The videos

They will no longer have Alsace and Lorraine– 1944

Anniversary of a double liberation- 1945

Seismology in Strasbourg - 1951

Le Barabli - “Porte de France”- 1961

The Rhine Port in Strasbourg– 1964

Strasbourg, Silostra Industrial Area– 1964

Already a camera: November 11, 1918 in Strasbourg – 1966

Strasbourg Station – 1966

New method of music teaching – 1967

Linguistic borders in Alsace by Germain Muller– 1967

Strike in the Bas-Rhin– 1968

68 student movement in Strasbourg– 1968

The flea market in Strasbourg– 1970

Images of Strasbourg– 1972

The port of Strasbourg – 1972

Female recycling in Strasbourg– 1972

The importance of language in Alsatian identity– 1977

Relance of the Carnaval des Wackes in Strasbourg - 1977

The Bas-Rhin: the baeckeoffe- 1979



Old images and postcards 

On Gallica: the Bas-Rhin in images

On Clochers de France: the belfries of the Bas-Rhin in images

On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials 

On CPArama: collection of postcards from the Bas-Rhin

On communes.com: postcards of Strasbourg



Old maps of the department 

From Cassini's villages to today's municipalities: the department of the Bas-Rhin

On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department

On Gallica: the old maps of the Bas-Rhin



The History of Bas-Rhin


History of the Bas-Rhin department

Courier of Bas-Rhin- 1771

Journey from Paris to Strasbourg, and mainly throughout Bas-Rhin - 1801

Annuaire of the Bas-Rhin department– 1842

Annuaire of the Bas-Rhin department– 1858

Poverty and charity in Bas-Rhin– 1858

Bas-Rhin from 1848 to 1852 – 1910

Bonapartism in the 1850 elections in Bas-Rhin– 1911

The food crisis of 1847 in Bas-Rhin – 1925

The food crisis in Bas-Rhin in 1847 (continuation) – 1926

Rural life in the Lower Alsace plain; Geography of a population: the Bas-Rhin department- 1955

The crisis in an eastern department: Bas-Rhin - 1956

History of hospitals in Bas-Rhin: Hospital heritage of Bas-Rhin- 1994

The central school of Bas-Rhin (1796-1803), contribution to the history of public education- 2013

The confinement of the mentally ill: the asylum of Stephansfeld (Bas-Rhin, 1835-1860) and the law of 1838– 2014



On Gallica: the books and the press to learn everything about the Bas-Rhin department


GenCom: to learn everything about a commune in Bas-Rhin


Genealogy sites in Bas-Rhin


Genealogy circles and associations in Bas-Rhin and surroundings

Alsace Genealogical Circle

Haute-Alsace Genealogical Federation

Genealogy Workshop of the Wissembourg District and Surroundings



Genealogy blogs in Bas-Rhin

FAN-GENEALOGY

Alsace GenWeb

The Fritsch - Genealogy in Alsace

Alsatian Genealogist's Toolbox

GenealoNet



Accounts to follow on social networks

Facebook: Bas-Rhin Departmental Archives  - Group Alsace Genealogy and Culture  - Group Website of Judaism in Alsace and Lorraine



Happy researching! 


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