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

Var Department

History

The department of Var was created at the time of the French Revolution, on 4 March 1790, from a portion of the former royal province of Provence. It takes its name from the river Var, which flowed along its eastern boundary, until the boundary was moved in 1860 with the creation of the new department of Alpes-Maritimes. Var is bordered by the departments of Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and by the Mediterranean Sea on the south.^[1]

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Localities (Communes)

Resources

Census

Recensements de population at Archives départementales du Var — 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
Registres paroissiaux et de l'état civil at Archives départementales du Var — index & 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
1793-1914 France, Var, Civil Registration, 1793-1914 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection, index
1793-1914 France, Var, registres civil, 1793-1914(*); Var (France). Archives départementales at FamilySearch Catalog - images
La base de donnée de l'Entraide at Entraide FranceGenWeb — index
Les "actes en vrac" pour : Cotignac (83) at FranceGenWeb — index
Les "actes en vrac" pour : Var (83) at FranceGenWeb — index
Registres paroissiaux et de l'état civil at Archives départementales du Var — index & images
See France Civil Registration for more information.

Emigration and Immigration

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

Heraldry

Blasons de communes et familles du Var at HéraldiqueGenWeb — index & images

Maps and Gazetteers

Communes du Var (carte) at Locom

Military Records

Les soldats ayant combattu pour la guerre d'indépendance des États-Unis originaires du Var at La FayetteGenWeb — index
Morts pour la France nés dans le Var at MémorialGenWeb — index
Napoléon-Mariages Du Mariage de 6000 Militaires at NapoléonMariagesGenWeb — index

Nobility

Recherches de noblesse faites en Provence(*); Le Bret, Pierre Cardin at FamilySearch Catalog - images

Repositories

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

Libraries

Societies

FranceGenWeb - Cousins
FranceGenWeb Cousins 83, Var

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References

↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Var (department)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var_(department) (accessed July 13, 2020).

[1] Wikipedia contributors, "Var (department)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Var_(department) (accessed July 13, 2020).

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