Genealogy in Isère: Finding Your Ancestors

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Genealogy in Isère: Finding Your Ancestors

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The Isère department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of Rhône, of the Ain, of the Savoie, of the Hautes-Alpes, of the Drôme, of the Ardèche and of the Loire.



 Isère Archives


Isère Archives Online

Browse online archives in the Isère department to search for your ancestors: parish registers and civil status records, nominative lists and population census, military registration records, family archives from World War I, medieval accounts and digitized audiovisual archives.



Online Records

On FranceGenWeb: "Bulk Records" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Marriages of Migrants from Isère - Notaries - Protestants

Various Records in Isère

Various Multimedia Archives in Isère



Unusual Records

Memory of grim misfortunes, wines that freeze and a refusal to swear on the J. Marchal's website.

Unusual Testimony in Isère Archives



Migrations in Isère


Foreigners in the Isère department

People from Isère and Algeria

Chilean refugees in Isère: a policy of hospitality

Views on migrations in the 19th and 20th centuries in Rhône-Alpes




Isère in Pictures


Videos

The walnut, the chestnut – 1926

Tourism exhibition in Grenoble– 1943

A hydraulic press of 18,000 tons– 1958

Inauguration of the Grenoble Nuclear Studies Center – 1959

What the Family Planning Service Brings to the French– 1961 

Vénérieu– 1963

Olympic atmosphere in Grenoble– 1965

Class 65– 1965

The bet of Grenoble– 1966

Killy at home– 1967

The Maoists in Grenoble II– 1970

The towers in the mountains– 1973

The return of Mandrin – 1975

Shoe manufacturing- 1977


Old Images and Postcards 

On Gallica : the Isère in pictures

On Clochers de France : the church towers of Isère in pictures 

On Memorial GenWeb : postcards of the war memorials 

On CPArama : collection of Isère postcards



Old Department Maps 

From Cassini’s villages to today’s communes : the department of the Isère

On Old Maps Online : the old maps of the department

On Gallica : the old maps of the Isère



The History of Isère


History of the Isère department

Notice on various regions of the Isère department- 1811

Statistics of the Isère department– 1847

Guide for travelers in the Isère department- 1856

The silk industry in the Isère department- 1927

Tobacco in the Isère department– 1932

Dairy production in the Isère department- 1935

The containment of Isère in Grésivaudan– 1942

Volume on the 1848 revolution in Isère– 1952

Strikes of 1867-1870 in the Isère department - 1954

The evolution of the population of the Isère department (1936-1954)– 1955

Meteorological observations of 1954 in the Isère department– 1955

Rural youth in the Isère department - 1956

The Isère department under the Third Republic (1870-1940) - 1963

The Perier in Isère in the 19th century- 1965

Public health and living conditions in the Isère department in the 19th century- 1966

The free women's unions of Isère 1906-1936– 1996

Resistance and rescue of Jews in the Isère department- 2003

Representatives on mission in Isère: chronicle of a "gentle" Terror (1793-1795) - 2003

Local administration in times of crisis: the case of Isère in 1814-1815- 2005

Birth of a social class: office clerks, from the Consulate to the July Monarchy. The case of Isère- 2006

Administering the border: Isère officials and the Franco-Italian border from the Restoration to the July Monarchy– 2007

Petition policy of local Napoleonic institutions, the case of the Isère department (1800-1815) - 2016



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

GenCom: to learn everything about a commune in Isère


Genealogy Sites in Isère


Genealogy Circles and Associations in Isère

Dauphiné Genealogy Center

Vienne and Rhône Valley Genealogy Center

North Isère Genealogy Club

History and Heritage of the Voironnais Country


Useful Social Networks

Facebook : Group Our Ancestors in Isère and Rhône: Genealogy, Daily Life, and Photos – Group Rhône-Alpes Genealogy



Happy researching!


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