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Genealogy Cheat Sheet – The guide to help you find your ancestors in the department: archives, records, old maps, and more…
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The department of Belfort Territory was created in 1922 from the arrondissement of Belfort. Called in 1871 "arrondissement subsistant du Haut-Rhin", the department is bordered by the departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Vosges, and Haut-Rhin.
Browse the departmental archives of the Belfort Territory to find your ancestors: parish registers and civil status records, censuses, military draft records, land records, registration, military maps and old press.
On FranceGenWeb: "Records" - Marriages - Marriages of migrants - Marriages of migrants from the Belfort Territory - Notaries - Protestants
Roots in the Sundgau and the Belfort Territory
After the storm on the website of J. Marchal.
Here and elsewhere. A history of immigration in the Belfort Territory.
Franche-Comté. A crossroads of multiple influences.
Bulb group manufacturing at Alsthom for the tidal power plant – 1965
Birth of a locomotive in Belfort – 1967
The Belfort Territory: the knoepfele – 1978
Alsthom conflict: Belfort – 1979
The mural by Ernest Pignon in Belfort – 1989
On Gallica: the Belfort Territory in images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of the Belfort Territory in images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards from the Belfort Territory
From Cassini's villages to today's communes: the department of Belfort Territory
On Old Maps Online: old maps of the department
On Gallica: old maps of the Belfort Territory
History of the department of the Belfort Territory
Directory of Doubs, Franche-Comté, and the Belfort Territory – 1866
Documents and memoirs for the history of the Belfort Territory – 1885
Geography of the Belfort Territory – 1888
On Gallica: the books and the press to learn everything about the department of the Belfort Territory
Genealogical Help Center of Franche-Comté
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