Genealogy in Corrèze: Archives and Resources
Find your ancestors in Corrèze with this genealogy cheat sheet: archives, online records, maps, postcards, useful websites, and more...
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The Corrèze department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Haute-Vienne, the Creuse, the Puy-de-Dôme, the Cantal, the Lot, and the Dordogne.
Corrèze Archives
Corrèze Archives Online
Browse the departmental archives of Corrèze to find your ancestors: parish registers and civil records, census records, draft registers, estate inventories and absences and old cadastre.
Online Records
On FranceGenWeb: “ Miscellaneous Records ” - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Migrant Marriages from Corrèze - Notaries
Genealogy Data for the Lubersac Canton
Records in Bassignac-le-Haut and Saint-Frejoux-le-Mineur
Civil Records for the La Roche-Canillac Canton
Genealogy of the People of Murat in Corrèze
Unusual Records
A neglectful uncle, a priest's recommendations to his successor, the Chamboulive Affair and more on the J. Marchal's site.
Unusual Testimonies in the Corrèze Archives
Migrations in Corrèze
Limousin – Immigration History in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The emigration of the “wine merchants of Meymac” (Corrèze) – 1936- 1936
Corrèze in Images
Videos
Horse breeding - 1930
New forces: construction of hydroelectric dams – 1945
Vacations in Corrèze – 1950
Vacations in Corrèze 2 – 1950
A woman mayor in Corrèze – 1966
Clothing factory in Bort les Orgues - 1966
Postcard from Tulle - 1969
Old wheelwrights-blacksmiths – 1970
Profile : Jacques Chirac – 1970
Young farmer girl in Treignac - 1972
Auvergne sings in 6 departments – 1975
Women in rural areas – 1976
Living in Bort les Orgues – 1981
Living in Ussel or clichés of Ussel – 1981
A snail farm in Corrèze – 1985
Hunting at school - 1985
Old Images and Postcards
On Gallica : the Corrèze in images
On Clochers de France : the bells of Corrèze in images
On Memorial GenWeb : postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama : collection of postcards from Corrèze
Corrèze in the 1900s – Old postcards of towns and villages
Old Maps of the Department
From Cassini’s villages to today’s communes : the department of the Corrèze
On Old Maps Online : the old maps of the department
On Gallica : the old maps of the Corrèze
The History of Corrèze
History of the Corrèze department
Directory of the Corrèze department, for the Year 12 – 1803
Memoir on the canals of Corrèze and Vézère - 1820
Dictionary of the patois of Bas-Limousin, Corrèze, and more particularly the surroundings of Tulle – 1824
Notes on some churches in Corrèze - 1890
The sources of the history of Limousin (Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Corrèze) – 1895
The Revolution of 1848 in Corrèze (February to May 1848) - 1920
The Revolution of 1848 in Corrèze (May 1848 to May 1849) continued - 1921
The Revolution of 1848 in Corrèze (May 1849 to December 1850) continued – 1921
The Revolution of 1848 in Corrèze (January to November 1851) – 1922
The floods of the Corrèze and the floods in the Tulle region – 1961
Corrèze - 1972
The origins of urban life in Limousin - 1980
The population of Limousin in 1990 – 1991
The French Communist Party in Corrèze in the reports of the Vichy administration (1940-1941) – 1992
Hospital history of Corrèze, Hospital tradition of Corrèze – 1994
Bringing to the world. Midwives and childbirth in Corrèze in the 19th century – 2007
Tulle – Inquiry into a massacre 9 June 1944 - 2014
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Corrèze department
The 50 most common surnames in Correze
Top 10 surnames in Correze:
- VERGNE
- MONTEIL
- BESSE
- COUDERT
- LAVAL
- DUPUY
- MAURY
- BORDAS
- VIALLE
- FARGES
the other 40 most popular surnames in the department (according to the INSEE records)
- LACHAUD
- CHASSAGNE
- BORIE
- ROCHE
- BORDES
- LACROIX
- SOULIER
- FAURE
- POUGET
- DUMAS
- MAS
- BREUIL
- DELMAS
- PLAS
- PERRIER
- VERLHAC
- PEYRAT
- BROUSSE
- LEYMARIE
- VALADE
- VERDIER
- GENESTE
- MONS
- CHASSAING
- FRAYSSE
- LAPORTE
- CHASTANET
- CHEZE
- FAURIE
- GORSE
- DUBOIS
- ROUX
- GAUTHIER
- CHAUMEIL
- LAURENT
- DUMOND
- BOUILLAGUET
- ESTRADE
- PEUCH
- SERRE
Genealogy sites in Corrèze
Genealogy circles and associations in Corrèze
Useful social networks
Facebook : Departmental Archives of Corrèze – Group Corrèze Genealogy 19 – Group Limousin Genealogy
Happy researching !
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