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Genealogy Cheat Sheet – The guide to help you find your ancestors in the Pyrénées-Orientales: civil status, images and maps, genealogy sites...
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The department of Pyrénées-Orientales was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It is bordered by the departments of the Aude and the Ariège.
Browse the departmental archives to search for your ancestors: civil status, population census, military preparation and army recruitment, mortgage registers and cadastral plans.
On FranceGenWeb: "Loose Acts" - Marriages - Migrant Marriages - Migrant Marriages from the Pyrénées-Orientales - Notaries - Protestants
A dramatic fire on the J. Marchal's site.
Unusual Testimonies in the Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales
Two centuries of immigration in Languedoc-Roussillon
Seasonal migrations in the Pyrenean departments at the beginning of the 19th century
Spanish refugees during their transfer to the Barcarès camp
Closing of the Spanish border – 1946
Collioure fishing port – 1960
Development in Leucate and Barcarès – 1964
Stage in Font Romeu – 1965
Banyuls-sur-Mer and the coast of the Eastern Pyrenees – 1966
The solar oven – 1970
Social Security in a small village – 1972
A village on European time : Banyuls – 1979
Sequestration of the director of the Poupées Bella factory – 1981
Eastern Pyrenees : new Banyuls grape varieties – 1982
The Eastern Pyrenees : the Roussillon fougasse - 1982
On Gallica : the Eastern Pyrenees in images
On Clochers de France : the bell towers of the Eastern Pyrenees in images
On Mémorial GenWeb : postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama : collection of postcards from the Eastern Pyrenees
From Cassini's villages to today's communes : the department of the Eastern Pyrenees
On Old Maps Online : old maps of the department
On Gallica : old maps of the Eastern Pyrenees
History of the Pyrénées-Orientales department
Geography of the Pyrénées-Orientales department – 1819
Summary of the history of Roussillon, the County of Foix, Bigorre and other provinces - 1825
Memoir on the campaign of the army corps of the Pyrénées-Orientales - 1826
Statistical and Historical Directory of the Pyrénées-Orientales department – 1834
Notice on the thermal establishment of the Bains d’Arles – 1840
Small geography of the Pyrénées-Orientales department - 1865
Notes and historical documents on the Pyrénées-Orientales department - 1867
Meteorological bulletin of the Pyrénées-Orientales department - 1874
On Gallica : the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Pyrénées-Orientales department
GenCom : to learn everything about a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales
Historical Occitania Genealogical Union
Facebook: Departmental Archives of Eastern Pyrenees
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