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Genealogy Cheat Sheet - We provide all the useful and free genealogical resources for your research in Doubs
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The Doubs department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Jura, the Haute-Saône, the Territoire de Belfort and the Swiss cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura.
Browse the departmental archives of Doubs to find your ancestors. Find in the digitized archives: civil status and parish registers, the census records, the military records, the notary records and the hypotheses conservation directories.
Also see: digitized heritage of Besançon and municipal archives of Montbéliard
On FranceGenWeb: "Miscellaneous Acts" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Marriages of Migrants from Doubs - Notaries - Protestants
Perpetual shavings, five drowned men and others on the J. Marchal's site.
Unusual Testimonies in the Archives of Doubs
Immigration memory sites in Besançon
History of immigration in Doubs
Worker migrations in the Doubs department
Swiss cheesemakers in Franche-Comté
The construction of a chalet – 1950
Inauguration in Audincourt of the new Sacred Heart Church - 1951
Family gathering in Doubs – 1956
In today's hospitals, patients are guests – 1962
The youngest black belt in Europe – 1966
The glassworks of Passavant – 1966
King's Cadets Court, a regional station: Besançon – 1969
Mr. Pompidou in Besançon – 1969
Postcard from Abbenans in Doubs – 1969
“Hopes of communities” by Jean Marcel Jeanneney – 1970
The winter sports station of Bonnevaux – 1971
Lip, self-portrait by striking workers – 1973
Social: Lip march in Besançon – 1973
Pedestrian center of Besançon – 1977
On Gallica: the Doubs in pictures
On Clochers de France: the belfries of Doubs in pictures
On Mémorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards from Doubs
From Cassini’s villages to today’s communes: the department of the Doubs
On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department
On Gallica: old maps of the Doubs
History of the Doubs department
La vedette, or the journal of the Doubs department – 1792
Historical memory on the ancient navigation of the Doubs and Saône - 1810
Statistical yearbook of the Doubs department - 1831
Departmental yearbook of Doubs – 1841
Memoirs of the Doubs Emulation Society - 1841
Memoirs of the Doubs Emulation Society - 1860
The high mountains of Doubs, between Morteau, Le Russey, Belvoir and Orchamps-Vennes - 1868
Inquiry into the patois of Doubs - 1896
The tariff for the use of pharmacists in Doubs from 1865 - 1988
Besançon in the 18th century – 2003
Doubs. Ornans, study of the building of a house from the 13th-14th and 16th centuries - 2005
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn all about the Doubs department
Top 10 Surnames in the Doubs:
the other 40 most popular surnames in the department (according to the INSEE File) :
Franche-Comté Genealogical Help Center
History and Genealogy in Franche-Comté
Genealogy of Families in Frasne
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