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...

Genealogy in Corrèze: Archives and Resources

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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 recordscensus recordsdraft registersestate inventories and absences and old cadastre


Online Records 

On FranceGenWeb: “ Miscellaneous Records ” - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Migrant Marriages from Corrèze Notaries

GENDEP19 – The Corrèze Portal

GéaCorrèze

Alain Soirat's Site

Various Records in Hautefage

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

Glimpses of pharmacy in Corrèze in the 19th century: Guy Pougetoux, Contribution to the study of the history of pharmacy in Corrèze in the 19th century – 1984

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

GENDEP 19

Genealogy in Corrèze

GéneaCorrèze



Useful social networks

Facebook : Departmental Archives of Corrèze – Group Corrèze Genealogy 19 – Group Limousin Genealogy



Happy researching ! 


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