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Guide to Ain Department ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Ain Department

History

Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The Department was created during the French Revolution and was subdivided into 9 districts, 49 cantons and 501 communes. During the first French Consulate (1802) the districts were abolished and the Department of Ain now consists of 4 arrondissements, 23 cantons and 408 communes.

• Histoire de Bresse et de Bugey(*); Guichenon, Samuel, 1607-1664 at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Jurisdictions

Localities (Communes)

• Noms Révolutionnaires des Communes du Département de l'AIN (Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Names of the Communes of the Department of AIN) at Ain-Généalogie
• List of communes in Ain at FranceGenWeb
• Locom France
• Wikipedia list of communes in Ain at Wikipedia
• List of historic communes in Ain at Wikipedia
• Place Search at Geoportail

Resources

• Collaborative Indexes - Ain at Geneanet - index & images ($)
• Genelaogical and historical archives at Filae - index & images ($)

Business and Occupations

• Maires (Mayors) at FranceGenWeb - index
• Les notaires pour : Ain at FranceGenWeb - index

Census

• Census Search at Archives de l'Ain - images
• See France Census for more information.

Church Records

• Church and Civil Records Search at Archives de l'Ain - images
• 1536-1897 France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1897 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
• Les "actes en vrac" pour : Ain [01] at FranceGenWeb - index
• Les demandes pour le département 01 at FranceGenWeb - index
• Les communes sélectionnées Pays : 01 - Ain (Database of Religious People) at FranceGenWeb - index
• ProtestantsGenWeb - La base de données des ancêtres protestants français at FranceGenWeb - index
• Rechercher un acte de naissance, mariage, décès at ArborisGen - index
• Protestants de l'Ain (Bresse, Bugey, Dombes, pays de Gex) at Huguenots de France et d'ailleurs - index
• See France Church Records for more information.

Civil Registration

• Church and Civil Records Search at Archives de l'Ain - images
• 1542-1900 France, Civil Registration, Various Communes, 1542-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
• 1802-1892 Tables décennales, 1802-1892(*); Ain (France). Archives départementales at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Les demandes pour le département 01 at FranceGenWeb - index
• Napoléon-Mariages Du Mariage de 6000 Militaires at FranceGenWeb - index
• Rechercher un acte de naissance, mariage, décès at ArborisGen - index
• Les mariages de migrants pour : Ain at FranceGenWeb - index
• See France Civil Registration for more information.

Emigration and Immigration

• 1939-1945 Base des Déportés 1939-1945 at Mémorial Gen Web - index
• Les mariages de migrants originaires de : Ain at FranceGenWeb - index
• Les mariages de migrants pour : Ain at FranceGenWeb - index

Heraldry

• Armorial de Buenc (Ain) du XIe siècle à nos jours(*); Centre culturel de Buenc at FamilySearch Catalog - images
• Héraldique at FranceGenWeb - images of crests for various departments

Jewish Records

• 1940-1944 Ain, France, Selected Jewish Holocaust Records,1940-1944 (USHMM) at Ancestry - index ($)

Military Records

• Registres matricules at Archvies de l'Ain - index & images
• Morts pour la France de l'Ain at MémorialGenWeb - index
• Morts pour la France nés dans l'Ain at MémorialGenWeb - index
• Morts pour la France décédés dans l'Ain at MémorialGenWeb - index
• Les soldats ayant combattu pour la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis originaires de l'Ain at MémorialGenWeb - index

Newspapers

• Journaux Numérisés at Archvies de l'Ain - index & images

Taxation

• Hypothèques at Archvies de l'Ain - index & images
• Tables de successions at Archvies de l'Ain - index & images

Voting Records

• Listes électorales at Archvies de l'Ain - index & images

Repositories

For a list of FamilySearch Centers and Affiliate Libraries, see map.

Archives

Archives de l'Ain
1, boulevard Paul-Valéry
01000 Bourg-en-Bresse
France
Telephone: +33 (0)4 74 32 12 80
Contact form
Website

Societies

FranceGenWeb - Cousins
Website

Recherches & Études Généalogiques de l'Ain (REGAIN)
Website

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