Genealogy in Aube: Trace Your Ancestors' Footsteps

Genealogy cheat sheet - Links to archives, civil status, registers, old maps, books, and sites on the department's history

Genealogy in Aube: Trace Your Ancestors' Footsteps

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The Aube department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Marne, the Haute-Marne, the Côte-d'Or, the Yonne, and the Seine-et-Marne.



 Aube archives


Aube online archives

Find your ancestors in the online archives of the Aube department: parish registers and civil status, military registers, population censuses, succession tables, enrollment registers and much more.

Also browse the cadastre, mortgages and the postcards of Aube.



Online records

On FranceGenWeb: "Bulk Acts" - Marriages -  Migrant Marriages - Marriages of Migrants from Aube - Notaries -  Protestants

Aubois records

Aube Archive

Survey in Saint-Aubin and Saint-Martin-la-Fosse



Unusual records

Accident at the mill, grand baptism, triple drowning and more on the J. Marchal website.

Unusual testimony in the archives of Aube



Migrations in Aube


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




Aube in images

Videos

Relaxation at work – Musical breaks during the day  – 1961

In Troyes, the trial of the authors of the attack on Pont-sur-Seine  – 1962

Old quarters of Troyes – 1964

Stop at Troyes Cathedral  – 1967

A department to discover: Aube  – 1970

Fairground workers – 1971

Illuminations in Troyes  – 1971

Magazine D. - Animations in the quarters of Troyes – 1972

The Templars at the National Archives (Aube) – 2012



Old images and postcards

On Gallica: Aube in images

On Clochers de France: the belfries of Aube in images

On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the War Memorials

On CPArama: Aube postcards collection

On communes.com: postcards of Nogent-sur-Aube

Old postcards of Montieramey



Old maps of the department

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

On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department



The history of Aube


History of the Aube department

Memoirs of the Lycée of the Aube department – 1801

Statistical table of the Aube department – 1801

1814-1815. Invasion of foreign armies in the Aube department – 1833

Administrative and artistic directory of the Aube department – 1837

Paleographic journey in the Aube department, report – 1855

Chat about the flora of Aube: at the session of October 28, 1877 of the Horticultural, Viticultural and Forestry Society of Aube – 1877

Forest plantations in the Aube department – 1878

A 1546 riddle inscription in Sainte-Maure – 1908

The hosiery in Troyes and in the Aube department – 1935

The churches of Aube in danger – 1955

Sculpted Virgin Marys from the 15th and 16th centuries in the Aube department – 1962

The Journal of Aube and the difficulties of the levy of the 300,000 men – 1998



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



The 50 most common surnames in Aube


Top 10 surnames in Aube:

  • MARTIN
  • PETIT
  • ROYER
  • LAURENT
  • THOMAS
  • SIMON
  • ROBERT
  • GERARD
  • GARNIER
  • ROBIN


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

  • FRANCOIS
  • GAUTHIER
  • BERNARD
  • MICHEL
  • RICHARD
  • FEVRE
  • MASSON
  • GUYOT
  • CLEMENT
  • BOURGEOIS
  • COLLIN
  • VINCENT
  • BERTRAND
  • MILLET
  • LAMBERT
  • HENRY
  • NOEL
  • ROY
  • BARBIER
  • MOREAU
  • PARISOT
  • COLLOT
  • DUBOIS
  • CARRE
  • MATHIEU
  • LEGRAND
  • GUILLAUME
  • PICARD
  • ADAM
  • BERTHIER
  • REMY
  • PARIS
  • ROUSSEAU
  • DURAND
  • COLSON
  • FOURNIER
  • COLIN
  • MARCHAND
  • MULLER
  • PREVOST



Genealogy sites in Aube


Genealogy circles and associations in Aube

Aube Genealogical Center

Aube Archive

Aubois Records


Genealogy blogs in Aube

New Branches

The cherries of Aube



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