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Genealogy Cheat Sheet – Discover your ancestors in the Somme with these online resources: archives, records, books, association sites...
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The Somme department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It borders the departments of Pas-de-Calais, Nord, Aisne, Oise, and Seine-Maritime
Browse the departmental archives of the Somme to find your ancestors: parish and civil registers, population censuses, Electoral rolls (1830-1939), assisted children, Protestant parish registers, alphabetic indexes of military records, military registersmortgages, maps and plans and books and old press.
On FranceGenWeb: "Miscellaneous records" – Marriages – Migrants' marriages – Marriages of migrants from the Somme – Notaries – Protestants
Review of indexes and various records in the Somme
A death that looks like revenge, a stormy day, and others on J. Marchal's website.
Unusual testimonies in the archives of the Somme
History of immigration in Amiens and Picardy
Picardy, a worker, agricultural, and industrial region
English monument from 1914 in Thiepval – 1932
Max Lejeune visits the reconstruction sites in Amiens and attends the bouquet festival – 1948
First French skyscraper in Amiens – 1951
Chés cabotants of Amiens – 1958
Plastic bag manufacturing in Flixecourt – 1967
Amiens: survey on the future renovation of the Saint-Leu district – 1971
Quend: 39 years old and 20 years of marriage, Mrs. Roussel just gave birth to her 20th child – 1971
Pollution in the Somme – 1973
Archery in the Somme – 1973
The Somme: the Flemish frisee – 1977
On Gallica: The Somme in images
On Clochers de France: The bells of the Somme in images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards from the Somme
From Cassini villages to today's communes: the Somme department: The Somme
On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department
On Gallica: the old maps of the Somme
History of the Somme department
History of the town of Roye, department of the Somme – 1818
Letter on the department of the Somme – 1840
Amiens and the department of the Somme during the Revolution – 1883
Historical work in the Somme department in 1946 – 1947
Rural land consolidation in the Somme department – 1966
Infant mortality in the Somme department 1959 – 1972 – 1976
Scholarships, meritocracy, and school politics in the Somme, 1850-1914 – 1985
Traditional street names in rural communes of the Somme – 1987
Aspects of the towns of the Somme country, 12th-17th century – 1999
On Gallica: books, the press, and the manuscripts to learn all about the department of the Somme
GenCom: to learn all about a commune in the Somme
Facebook: Group Picardy Genealogy – Group Genealogy in Seine-Maritime, Oise, Somme, Val d'Oise – Group Genealogy in the Somme (80)
Happy researching!
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