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

Alpes-Maritimes Department

History[edit | edit source]

Alpes Maritimes is part of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It borders on the departments of Var and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and Italy to the east. A first French département of Alpes-Maritimes existed in the same area from 1793 to 1814. Its boundaries differed from those of the modern department, however. In 1793 Alpes-Maritimes included Monaco and San Remo, but not Grasse which was then part of the départment of Var. The département was subdivided into arrondissements and cantons and in 1812. The department was reconstituted in 1860 when the county of Nice was annexed by France. It included the county of Nice as well as the previously, at least nominally, independent towns of Menton and Roquebrune, and the arrondissement of Grasse in the department of Var. The Arrondissement of Puget-Théniers was removed for purposes of economy in 1926 and attached to Nice. In 1947, in accordance with the Treaty of Paris and as a referendum result favourable to their attachment to France, the communes of Tende and La Brigue which had been Italian since 1860, were attached to the department.[1]

Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]

Localities (Communes)[edit | edit source]

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Census[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Court Records[edit | edit source]

Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

Heraldry[edit | edit source]

Land and Property[edit | edit source]

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Military Records[edit | edit source]

Nobility[edit | edit source]

Notarial Records[edit | edit source]

Repositories[edit | edit source]

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Archives[edit | edit source]

Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes
Centre administratif départemental
Bâtiment Charles Ginesy, 147 Bd du Mercantour
06206 Nice
France
Telephone: +33 (0)4 97 18 61 71
Website

Libraries[edit | edit source]

Societies[edit | edit source]

FranceGenWeb - Cousins
FranceGenWeb Cousins 06, Alpes-Maritimes

c/o Mme Évelyne SAIU
6, avenue du Prado
06400 CANNES
France
  • Centre Généalogique et Héraldique du Comté de Nice
24, bd Prince de Galles
0600 Nice
France
  • Cercle Généalogique de Nice et de la Provence Orientale
7, avenue de Fabron
06200 Nice
France

Research Helps[edit | edit source]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. Wikipedia contributors, "Alpes-Maritimes," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpes-Maritimes (accessed October 30, 2018).