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

Hautes-Alpes Department

History

Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. At the time when the department was created, the two mountain communes of La Grave and Villar-d'Arêne successfully campaigned to be included in Hautes-Alpes and not in the neighbouring department of Isère to which they had originally been assigned. This was because they hoped to benefit from the relative autonomy and certain fiscal privileges enjoyed by the region since the fourteenth century under the terms of the Statute of the Briançon Escartons. Napoleon passed through Gap when he returned to reclaim France after his exile on Elba using what is now known as Route Napoléon.^[1]

Initiation aux recherches d'histoire locale pour le département des Hautes-Alpes(*); Aimès, Paul at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Jurisdictions

Localities (Communes)

Resources

Census

1856 France, Hautes-Alpes, Census, 1856 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
Recensements de la population at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images
See France Census for more information.

Church Records

1536-1897 France, Protestant Church Records, 1536-1897 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
1583-1902 France, Hautes-Alpes, Parish and Civil Registration, 1583-1902 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
1654-1886 Hautes-Alpes, France, mariages, 1654-1886(*); Canu, Gaston at FamilySearch Catalog - images
See France Church Records for more information.

Civil Registration

1542-1900 France, Civil Registration, Various Communes, 1542-1900 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
1583-1902 France, Hautes-Alpes, Parish and Civil Registration, 1583-1902 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index & images
1805-1940 France, Hautes-Alpes, Passeports (registres et états), 1805-1940(*) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
1853-1925 France, Hautes-Alpes. Registre de déclaration, 1853-1925(*); Archives Departmentales des Hautes-Alpes at FamilySearch Catalog - images
État civil at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images
Les "actes en vrac" pour : Hautes-Alpes (05) at FranceGenWeb — index
Les recherches terminées des Hautes-Alpes at EntraideGenWeb — index
See France Civil Registration for more information.

Crime and Punishment

Prisons at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images

Emigration and Immigration

1939-1945 Base des Déportés 1939-1945 at MémorialGenWeb — index
Les mariages de migrants originaires de : Hautes Alpes at FranceGenWeb — index
Les mariages de migrants pour : Hautes Alpes at FranceGenWeb — index

Heraldry

Blasons de communes et familles des Hautes-Alpes at HéraldiqueGenWeb — index & images

Maps and Gazetteers

Cadastre at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images
Communes des Hautes-Alpes (carte) at Locom

Military Records

Cartes d'anciens combattants at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images
Les mariages pour : Hautes Alpes at FranceGenWeb — index
Les soldats ayant combattu pour la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis originaires des Hautes-Alpes at La FayetteGenWeb — index
Matricules de poilus at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images
Morts pour la France décédés dans les Hautes-Alpes at MémorialGenWeb — index & images
Morts pour la France nés dans les Hautes-Alpes at MémorialGenWeb — index & images

Newspapers

Presse ancienne at Archives départementales des Hautes-Alpes — index & images

Repositories

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

Libraries

Societies

FranceGenWeb - Cousins
FranceGenWeb Cousins 05, Hautes-Alpes

Association Généalogique des Hautes-Alpes

19 rue de France

05000 GAP

France

Tel: 04-92-51-99-63

Website

Centre Généalogique du Dauphiné

12 Boulevard du Maréchal-Lyautey BP 31

38010 GRENOBLE CEDEX 1