Genealogy in Gers: The Complete Guide

Genealogy Cheat Sheet - Find your ancestors in Gers with this genealogy cheat sheet: archives, online records, maps, postcards, useful websites, and more...

Genealogy in Gers: The Complete Guide

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The Gers department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Hautes-Pyrénées, of the Haute-Garonne, of the Tarn-et-Garonne, of the Lot-et-Garonne, of the Landes and of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques


The Archives of Gers


The Archives of Gers Online

Browse the departmental archives of Gers to find your ancestors: civil status and parish registersmilitary recruitment registerspopulation censusesNapoleonic cadastral plans and school monographs



Online Records 

On FranceGenWeb: "Mixed Records" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Migrant Marriages from Gers Notaries - Protestants

Systematic Records of the Parish of Puycasquier (1738-1790)



Unusual Records

The last days of a centenarian, snow for more than 15 days and others on the J. Marchal's website.



Migrations in the Gers


Alsatians in the Gers and Landes departments

History of immigration in the Midi-Pyrénées region

Italians in the agriculture of South-West France (1920-1950)




The Gers in images


Videos

Liquid fertilizer spreading – 1964

Gers: Peasant protests – 1968

Protest in Gers – 1968

A teacher on her poetry teaching – 1973

Jacques Dufilho on his love for the land – 1978

Marciac, Gers: Jazz Festival – 1980

Gers: Agreement between farmers and oil company – 1988



Old images and postcards

On Gallica: the Gers in images

On Clochers de France: the church towers of Gers in images

On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials

On CPArama: collection of Gers postcards



Old departmental maps

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

On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department

On Gallica: the old maps of the Gers



The History of Gers


History of the Gers department

Statistical table of the Gers department - 1802

Flora of the Gers department and neighboring regions – 1847

Gascon-French dictionary, dialect of the Gers department - 1863

Municipal customs of the Gers department – 1865

Political bibliography of the Gers department during the revolutionary period - 1867

The persecution against the clergy of the Gers department during the French Revolution - 1879

Armagnac and the Gers region – 1911

The conservative reaction in Gers in 1849 and 1850, according to police commissioners' reports - 1912

The coup d'État in Gers I - 1915

The coup d'État in Gers II – 1915

Gers under the Second Empire. Republican unrest in 1868 and 1869 - 1932

The egg trade in the Gers department – 1933

Gers under the Second Empire. Republican unrest and elections to the Legislative Body (1868-1869) - 1933

Gers under the Second Empire. Republican unrest and elections to the Legislative Body (1868-1869) - 1933

Agricultural life in the lower Gers valley – 1934

Gers – 1960

The beginnings of fruit production in Gers - 1969

Cereals in Gers – 1965

Retail trade networks in Gers – 1979

Electrification of the Gers department during the interwar period (1919-1939) - 1984



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


Genealogy sites in Gers


Genealogy circles and associations in Gers

Gasconne Gersoise Genealogy

Cerclegea32

Languedoc Genealogy Circle

Historical Occitanie Genealogy Union


Happy researching ! 


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