Genealogy in the Haut-Rhin: Your Ancestors in the Archives

Genealogy Cheat Sheet – All useful resources to help you find your ancestors in the Haut-Rhin: archives, useful websites, images and History...

Genealogy in the Haut-Rhin: Your Ancestors in the Archives

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The Haut-Rhin department was created in 1790 during the French Revolution. It borders the departments of Lower Rhine, the Vosges, and the Belfort Territory



The Haut-Rhin Archives


Online Archives of the Haut-Rhin

Browse the departmental archives of the Haut-Rhin to find your ancestors: Civil Status Records1866 CensusMilitary draft registersNotary directoryNapoleonic cadastreOld postcards and more...



Online Records 

On FranceGenWeb: "Bulk Records" - Marriages - Marriages of Migrants - Marriages of Migrants from Haut-Rhin - Notaries - Protestants

Records from Baltzenheim, Elsenheim, and Grussenheim

Records from Artzenheim and Saint Marie aux Mines

Genealogy of Franck Schmitt in Emlingen

Genealogies of the Val d'Argent



Migrations in the Haut-Rhin

These Alsatians Abroad

Alsatians from Elsewhere

Alsatian Emigration to the United States, 1815-1870

Alexis Keller: Alsatians in Algeria between 1830 and 1870

Immigration in Mulhouse in the First Half of the 19th Century



The Haut-Rhin in Images


Videos

Lost Alsace Found – 1945

St. John's Fire in Summer at Saint Amarin – 1947

Through Alsace – 1948

Festival of the Return of the Banat Alsatians – 1949

Activities and Leisure of Three Young Sisters – 1950

Funeral of the Alsatian Illustrator, Uncle Hansi – 1951

Inauguration of the Ottmarsheim Power Plant – 1953

The Electric Power Plant of Fessenheim and the New Canal- 1957

Happy Birthday, Dr. Schweitzer – 1960

Jacques Martin: Alsatian Humor – 1968

Wine Cooperative of Pfaffenheim Gueberschwihr – 1970

Women of Fessenheim – 1971

Filer Doux – 1973

The Pilgrimage of Dusenbach – 1978

There Were Two Brothers and Three Stars – 1978

Haut-Rhin: Alsatian Sauerkraut – 1979

Incident at the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant – 1980



Old Images and Postcards

On Gallica: the Haut-Rhin in images

On Clochers de France: the belfries of the Haut-Rhin in images

On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the War Memorials

On CPArama: Collection of postcards from the Haut-Rhin



Ancient Maps of the Department

From the villages of Cassini to today's communes: the department of the Haut-Rhin

On Old Maps Online: the ancient maps of the department

On Gallica: ancient maps of the Haut-Rhin



The History of the Haut-Rhin


History of the Haut-Rhin Department

Statistics of the Haut-Rhin Department – 1831

Alkaline Gaseous Waters of Soultzmatt, Haut-Rhin – 1853

The Vineyards of the Haut-Rhin – 1862

Morimont: Haut-Rhin, near Oberlag – 1866

The Workers' Cities of Mulhouse and the Haut-Rhin Department – 1867

Municipal Archives of the City of Cernay, Haut-Rhin, prior to 1790 – 1872

Around the Coup d'État in the Haut-Rhin – 1909

The Last Prefect of the Haut-Rhin under the Restoration, Baron Locard (1829-1830) – 1929

How the Haut-Rhin Department Became Bonapartist – 1936

The Central School of the Haut-Rhin in Colmar, 1796-1803 – 1937

Oil in the Haut-Rhin Department: A Century and a Half of Research and Exploitation – 1972

100,000 Cross-Border Workers – 1984

A Swiss Apothecary Organ Builder in Thann, Upper Alsace, in the 16th Century – 1990

Grussenheim (Haut-Rhin): A 17th Century Monetary Treasure – 1995

The Administrators of the Haut-Rhin in 1790: Social Aspects – 2002

Teaching German in Elementary School in Alsace: Methodological Questions, Manuals in Use Between 1952 and 1990 – 2005



On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the Haut-Rhin department

GenCom: to learn everything about a commune in the Haut-Rhin



Genealogy Websites in the Haut-Rhin


Genealogy Circles and Associations in the Haut-Rhin

Federation of Genealogy of Upper Alsace


Useful Social Networks

Facebook: Group Alsatian Genealogy and Culture



Happy researching! 



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