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Genealogy Cheat Sheet - Quick links to civil records and registers, maps and postcards, books on the department and more
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The Var department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, the Vaucluse, the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and the Alpes-Maritimes.
Browse the departmental archives of Var to search for your ancestors: the civil records, the decennial tables, the population censuses, the military records (by class or by name search), the notary records, the act control and Registration, the tables and directories of Mortgages, the mortgage transcriptions, the building permit directories, the religious archives, the municipal archives, the judicial archives, the private archives, the cadastre maps and the cadastre matrices.
The Var departmental archives website also offers a nominative database created by users as well as a genealogical records database.
On FranceGenWeb: " Miscellaneous Acts " - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Marriages of Migrants from Var - Notaries
Genealogical Circle 83 Records
Various Records in Var by François Barby
Various Records in Var by Thierry and Hélène Bianco
A divine punishment, a surprising death and others on the J. Marchal's website.
Unusual Testimony in the Archives of Var
From here and elsewhere: Immigration in Var (19th – 20th centuries)
History of immigration in PACA in the 19th and 20th centuries
Italians in Var from 1850 to present: demographics, economic impacts, and migration paths
The youngest grandmother in France - 1947
Children at the campsite – 1948
Vacation at Dramont – 1950
Life at the campsite on the French Riviera– 1950
The submarine 'Roland Morillot' - 1953
Tenth anniversary of the landing in Provence – 1954
Floods in Var – 1956
Fréjus live– 1959
The Malpasset disaster – 1959
The collapse of the Malpasset dam– 1959
Special Edition: The Fréjus disaster – 1959
After the Fréjus disaster – 1959
The Verdon Gorges and the Aiguines bridge before its disappearance – 1960
The landing beaches of Provence at Dramont – 1960
Double 2 CV for the Var firefighters– 1961
In the Verdon Gorges – 1965
Travel in France: Var – 1968
Harvesting in Var– 1968
Vacation in Var- 1969
Tomettes in Salernes – 1970
Laying the first stone of the Marine Troops Museum in Fréjus- 1973
On Gallica: Var in images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of Var in images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards from Var
From Cassini villages to today's communes: the department of Var
On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department
On Gallica: the old maps of the Var
History of the French Revolution in the Var department, from 1789 to 1798 - 1839
Statistics of the Var department – 1846
The ancient troubadours of Var, biographical notes – 1864
The districts of Var, 1790-1795 - 1898
The strikes of miners and quarrymen in Var from 1871 to 1921 – 1967
The Compulsory Labor Service in Var – 1973
The Popular Front and rural life in Var - 1973
The border of Var between 1789 and 1815 - 1976
1940: The Red Var in the White Wave - 1990
The people of Var and socialism from the end of the First World War to the mid-1930s – 1996
Resistance and xenophobia in Var at Liberation - 1996
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Var department
The genealogy section of the Léo Lagrange Club
Happy researching!
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