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Genealogy Cheat Sheet – Our resources to help you with your genealogical research in French Guiana: archives, records, historical resources, and more…
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French Guiana, a French region and department, is located in South America, between Brazil and Suriname.
Territorial archives of French Guiana – Portal that provides access to the inventories of the Territorial Archives
The archives of French Guiana in the National Archives of Overseas Territories – Civil status.
On FranceGenWeb: "Miscellaneous records" - Migrant marriages - Marriages of migrants from French Guiana - Notaries
French Guiana: The Chronicle of Migratory Globalization
The Migratory Issue in French Guiana
French Guiana – Historical Data
French Guiana. Capital: Cayenne – 1951
Report on the Penal Colony – 1960
A Leper Speaks – 1960
The Gold Mine of Sainte Sophie – 1964
General de Gaulle's Visit to Cayenne – 1964
Renaissance in French Guiana – 1967
Kourou, the French Guiana Space Center – 1968
French Guiana 1950-1970: From Devil's Island to Diamond – 1970
The Kourou Space Center, Engine of the Guianese Economy – 1970
Ariane, Europe's Launcher – 1978
French Guiana Carnival – 1979
Mango Sorbet – 1982
Guadeloupe – 1985
Christmas Cuisine in French Guiana – 1985
The Failure of the Ariane Rocket – 1986
Mango Tart – 1990
History of Kourou – 1993
On Gallica: French Guiana in Images
On Clochers de France: the belfries of French Guiana in Images
On Memorial GenWeb: postcards of the war memorials
On CPArama: collection of postcards from French Guiana
On Old Maps Online: old maps of French Guiana
On Gallica: old maps of French Guiana
Almanach of French Guiana – 1822
French Guiana or History, customs, and traditions of the inhabitants of this part of America – 1823
Code of French Guiana – 1824
Historical Summary of the Kourou Expedition, French Guiana. 1763-1765 – 1842
Colonization of French Guiana – 1847
French Guiana: civilization and barbarism, customs and landscapes – 1854
French Guiana: its borders towards the Amazon – 1858
Official Bulletin of French Guiana – 1865
Yearbook of French Guiana – 1868
Official Bulletin of French Guiana – 1874
Prehistoric man in French Guiana – 1878
A geographical and military mission in French Guiana in 1762 – 1892
Tricentennial of the attachment of the Antilles and French Guiana to France – 1935
The tricentennial of the Antilles and French Guiana – 1936
Note on the Indians of French Guiana – 1947
The exploration of French Guiana – 1950
News on French Guiana – 1950
French Guiana – 1951
An indigenous experience in French Guiana – 1953
French Guiana. First article. - 1955
French Guiana. Second article. - 1955
On the delimitation of the borders of French Guiana – 1956
The population of French Guiana – 1957
Slavery in French Guiana under the Old Regime – 1960
The archives of French Guiana – 1962
The Oyampi Indians of French Guiana – 1962
The Indians of the coast of French Guiana – 1963
A previously unpublished memoir by Victor Hugues on French Guiana – 1970
French Guiana in question – 1976
The Atlas of French Guiana – 1980
The origins of a multi-ethnic society: French Guiana from 1848 to 1946 – 1991
Situations of precarity in the Antilles and French Guiana – 1992
Health and geography in French Guiana - 1995
Creolization in French Guiana – 1997
Slavery and the penal colony in French Guiana – 1999
The penal colonies for Indochinese in French Guiana (1931-1963) – 2001
French Guiana at the Saint-Nazaire Scales – 2003
Vichy in the Antilles and French Guiana: 1940-1943 – 2004
Toward the post-colonial state: Creole teachers and local power in French Guiana (1950s-1960s) - 2014
On Gallica: the books and the press to learn all about French Guiana
GenCom: to learn all about a commune in French Guiana
Genealogy and History of the Caribbean
Facebook: French Guiana Territorial Archives
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