Genealogy in the Hautes-Alpes: Find Your Ancestors
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The Hautes-Alpes department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, the Drôme, the Isère, and the Savoie.
Archives of the Hautes-Alpes
The Hautes-Alpes Archives Online
Browse the departmental archives of the Hautes-Alpes in search of your ancestors. Find in the digitized archives: l’civil status, the nominative lists, the military records, the notaries, the mortgages, the registrations, the municipal deliberations, the prisons, the World War I, the cadastre, an iconography and a digital library.
Online Records
On FranceGenWeb: « Records in bulk » - Marriages - Marriages of migrants - Marriages of migrants from the Hautes-Alpes - Notaries - Protestants
François Barby's personal page
Francis Pelotier's personal page
Hélène and Thierry Bianco's records
Research in Saint Maurice en Valgodemar and Villar-Loubière
Unusual Records
Montgenèvre entirely burned, a sanitary cordon against the plague and others on the J. Marchal's website.
Unusual testimony in the archives of the Hautes-Alpes
Migrations in the Hautes-Alpes
History of immigration in PACA in the 19th and 20th centuries
Hospices and shelters: public care for migrants in the Hautes-Alpes in the 19th century
Hautes-Alpes in Images
Videos
Saint-Véran isolated from the world during winter – 1946
The latest in sanatoriums in Briançon – 1960
Filling of the Serre-Ponçon dam – 1960
The Serre-Ponçon dam – 1969
The coiffed ladies of Serre-Ponçon – 1969
Honey production in the Hautes-Alpes – 1977
Avalanches in the Hautes-Alpes – 1978
Hautes-Alpes: leg of lamb with anchovies – 1979
Images and old postcards
On Gallica: the Hautes-Alpes in images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of the Hautes-Alpes in images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the monuments to the dead
On CPArama: collection of postcards from the Hautes-Alpes
Old maps of the department
From Cassini's villages to today's communes: the department of Hautes-Alpes
On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department
On Gallica: old maps of the Hautes-Alpes
The History of the Hautes-Alpes
History of the Hautes-Alpes department
Statistics of the Hautes-Alpes department - 1801
History, antiquities, customs, dialects of the Hautes-Alpes - 1820
The Hautes-Alpes - 1832
The textile industry in the Hautes-Alpes department – 1939
The flood of July 9, 1941 in the Vachères torrent - 1942
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Hautes-Alpes department
The 50 most common surnames in the Hautes-Alpes
Top 10 surnames in the Hautes-Alpes:
- FAURE
- MARTIN
- ROUX
- BLANC
- ARNAUD
- BOREL
- MICHEL
- BERNARD
- GARCIN
- REYNAUD
The other 40 most popular surnames in the department (according to the INSEE file):
- LAGIER
- GIRAUD
- BERTRAND
- CHAIX
- ESCALLIER
- ROBERT
- ANDRE
- EYRAUD
- GARNIER
- BLANCHARD
- PASCAL
- DISDIER
- IMBERT
- JAUSSAUD
- BRUN
- PELLEGRIN
- MATHIEU
- RAMBAUD
- PHILIP
- FINE
- ALLEMAND
- GIRARD
- ALBERT
- ASTIER
- ARMAND
- LOMBARD
- PEYRON
- SARRAZIN
- SERRES
- AUBERT
- DURAND
- BOYER
- ESPITALLIER
- PONS
- DAVIN
- ROLLAND
- MARCELLIN
- REY
- BROCHIER
- MAUREL
Genealogy websites in the Hautes-Alpes
The Hautes-Alpes Genealogy Association
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