Genealogy in Lozère: Your Ancestors in the Archives

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Genealogy in Lozère: Your Ancestors in the Archives

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The department of Lozère was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of Cantal,  the Haute-Loire, the Aveyron, the Ardèche, and the Gard. It is the least populated department in France.                



 The archives of Lozère


Lozère archives online

As the Lozère archives say, find your Lozère ancestors online! civil status, the military draft records, the registration tables, the control of Old Regime records, the cadastre maps, the images and municipal monographs



Online records 

On FranceGenWeb: "Bulk records" - Marriages - Migrant marriages - Marriages of migrants from Lozère Notaries - Protestants

Lozère database of the Sinegre family genealogy site and Aveyron


Unusual records

A jobless bell ringer, the plague, and more on the J. Marchal's site.

Unusual testimony in the archives of Lozère



Migrations in Lozère

Migrations in Mediterranean Languedoc at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century




Lozère in images


Videos

The French desert: Lozère – 1961

A farmer from Lozère – 1961

Another France: the Cévennes park – 1973

The Beast of Gévaudan – 1977

Beekeeping: the wealth of Lozère – 1977

A cattle market – 1977

Hosiery in Le Vigan, Lozère – 1978

Lozère: the butcher's lamb shoulder – 1982

The bachelors' fair in La Canourgue – 1991



Old images and postcards

On Gallica: the Lozère in images

On Clochers de France: the belfries of Lozère in images

On Mémorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials 

On CPArama: collection of postcards from Lozère



Old maps of the department

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

On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department

On Gallica: the old maps of the Lozère



The history of Lozère


History of the department of Lozère

Statistics of the department of Lozère – 1802

Geographical dictionary of Lozère, preceded by a general notice on the department – 1852

The Cévennes and the Causses region – 1893

The Revolutionary Tribunal of Lozère in 1793, according to unpublished documents – 1893

Monuments of Lozère – 1902

The opposition of administration and clergy: prefecture and bishopric in Lozère in the 19th century – 1986


On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn all about the department of Lozère



Genealogy sites in Lozère


Genealogy circles and associations in Lozère

Lozère Genealogy Circle

Association of Researchers and Genealogists of the Cévennes

GéneAubrac

Historical Genealogical Union of Occitanie


Useful social networks

Facebook: Lozère Genealogy


Happy researching! 



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