Genealogy in the Belfort Territory: Archives and Histories
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.
The Archives of the Belfort Territory
The Archives of the Belfort Territory Online
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.
Online Records
On FranceGenWeb: "Records" - Marriages - Marriages of migrants - Marriages of migrants from the Belfort Territory - Notaries - Protestants
Roots in the Sundgau and the Belfort Territory
Unusual Records
After the storm on the website of J. Marchal.
Migrations in the Belfort Territory
Here and elsewhere. A history of immigration in the Belfort Territory.
Franche-Comté. A crossroads of multiple influences.
The Belfort Territory in Images
Videos
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
Old Images and Postcards
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
Old Maps of the Department
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
The History 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
Genealogy Sites in the Belfort Territory
Genealogy Circles and Associations in the Belfort Territory
Genealogical Help Center of Franche-Comté
Happy researching!
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