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Genealogy Cheat Sheet – Our resources to help you with your genealogical research in Guadeloupe: archives, history, useful sites...
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The island of Guadeloupe is one of the French overseas departments and regions.
Browse the departmental archives of Guadeloupe to search for your ancestors: civil records, military registration records, notary records and mortgages but also cmaps and plans, postcards, press and periodicals and iconographic funds.
Archives of Guadeloupe in the National Archives of Overseas
Anchoukaj – Guadeloupean and Martinican family names
Guadeloupe on FranceGenWeb: "Miscellaneous acts" - Migrants' marriages - Marriages of migrants from Guadeloupe - Notaries
History and memory of migrations in Martinique - Guadeloupe
Two men in a flying saucer – 1960
Speech in Basse Terre – 1960
Before De Gaulle's trip to Guadeloupe – 1960
Interview with Saint John Perse – 1960
Monsieur Terrenoire in Guadeloupe – 1961
Cities grow in the overseas departments – 1963
Charles de Gaulle: trip to Guadeloupe – 1964
The Antilles: Guadeloupe – 1968
Basse Terre – 1974
Guadeloupe: visit to the island of Saint-Martin – 1976
La Soufrière – 1976
The Route du Rhum: first edition summary – 1978
South West and the Antilles – 1979
Illustration of a Creole tale – 1981
The Route du Rhum: Guadeloupe – 1982
On Gallica: the Guadeloupe in images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of Guadeloupe in images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards of Guadeloupe
On Old Maps Online: the old maps of the department
On Gallica: the old maps of the Guadeloupe
Reflections on the cession of Guadeloupe to the crown of Sweden – 1813
Earthquake in Guadeloupe on February 8, 1843 - 1843
Abolition of slavery in Guadeloupe. Four months of government in this colony. - 1849
History of Guadeloupe – 1855
Colony of Guadeloupe instructions of the colonial assembly – 1879
Discovery of Guadeloupe – 1892
Population of Guadeloupe (1931) - 1933
Note on the origins of the sugar industry in Guadeloupe in the 17th century (1640-1670) – 1968
Settlement of Guadeloupe in the 18th century - 1974
The sugar problem in Guadeloupe in the first half of the 19th century (1815-1860) – 1976
Guadeloupe, savagery and emancipation: British comments of 1794-1796 – 1978
The "terrier" of 1671 and the division of land in Guadeloupe in the 17th century – 1980
Failure of colonial socialism: Guadeloupe (1891-1914) – 1984
The sugar crisis of 1882-1886 in Guadeloupe - 1987
The Revolution and slavery in Guadeloupe (1789-1802) - 1989
New insights into the political history of Guadeloupe at the end of the 19th century - 1991
Indochinese deportees in Guadeloupe under the Second Empire – 2001
The Rebellion of Guadeloupe, 1801-1802 - 2002
Delgrès or Guadeloupe in 1802 – 2003
Bigorre and Guadeloupe in the 19th century - 2008
The family. The sugar plantation of the Company of the Americas in Guadeloupe (1642-1649) - 2016
On Gallica: the books, the press and the manuscripts to learn everything about the department of Guadeloupe
GenCom: to learn everything about a commune in Guadeloupe
Genealogy and History of the Caribbean
Facebook: Group Genealogy in Guadeloupe
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