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The Drôme department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Ardèche, of the Isère, of the Hautes-Alpes, of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and of the Vaucluse.
Browse the departmental archives of the Drôme to find your ancestors: civil status and parish registers, census lists, draft records, notarial minutes, the mortgages and the cadastre.
On FranceGenWeb: "Loose Acts" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Migrant Marriages from the Drôme - Notaries - Protestants
Hélène and Thierry Bianco's Transcriptions
Unusual Testimonies in the Drôme Archives
The work of immigrants in the Drôme between the two wars
The Armenians. A century of presence in the Rhône-Alpes region
Perspectives on migrations in the 19th and 20th centuries in Rhône-Alpes
The Donzère-Mondragon Dam – 1950
The youngest mayor in France – 1955
Supermarkets, modern achievements: example in Valence – 1961
Laying the first stone of the Valence prefecture – 1963
An auxiliary postman – 1966
Glazed potter – 1969
Learning music on the farm – 1970
Françoise Mallet Joris – about the Facteur Cheval – 1970
Snowfall: isolated villages in the Drôme – 1971
Ferdinand Cheval and his Ideal Palace – 1971
Plum picking in Valence – 1975
The Drôme: Figatelli or grilled sausages – 1979
The first radio in the Drôme in Valence – 1983
On Gallica: the Drôme in images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of the Drôme in images
On Mémorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards of the Drôme
From Cassini’s villages to today’s communes: the department of the Drôme
On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department
On Gallica: old maps of the Hautes-Alpes
History of the Drôme department
Drôme department directory - 1806
Statistics of the Drôme department – 1835
Memoir on the ancient peoples who inhabited the Drôme department - 1837
Historical notice on Aoste (Drôme) – 1856
Historical notice on Le Buis (Drôme) – 1858
Historical notice on the city of Tain (Drôme) – 1863
Historical notice on Montélégier (Drôme) - 1864
Bulletin of archaeology and statistics of the Drôme - 1897
Castles of the Drôme - 1913
The prefecture of the Drôme in 1848-49 – 1928
The Republic of 1848 in the Drôme – 1950
Songs of river men in Châteauneuf-du-Rhône (Drôme) – 1974
“Félibourdes” or popular tales collected in Die (Drôme) in 1940 - 19822
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Drôme department
Top 10 surnames in the Drôme:
the other 40 most popular surnames in the department (according to the INSEE File)
Drôme Genealogical Studies Association
Drôme Provençal Genealogical Circle
Genealogical Circle of the Drôme des Collines
Family Cemeteries of the Drôme
Hauterives and Châteauneuf de Galaure (Drôme) – Local History
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