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*''Répertoire numérique de la série L (documents administratifs de la période révolutionnaire, 1790-An VIII)'' {{FSC|298604|item|disp=FS Library Film 962651 Item 10, Book 944.3835 A5rn ser. L}} (Numerical index to the departmental archives of the Bas-Rhin, series L, administrative documents from the revolutionary period, 1790-1800)
*''Répertoire numérique de la série L (documents administratifs de la période révolutionnaire, 1790-An VIII)'' {{FSC|298604|item|disp=FS Library Film 962651 Item 10, Book 944.3835 A5rn ser. L}} (Numerical index to the departmental archives of the Bas-Rhin, series L, administrative documents from the revolutionary period, 1790-1800)
===Libraries===
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Guide to Bas-Rhin Department ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Bas-Rhin Department

History[edit | edit source]

Bas-Rhin is one of the original 83 departments created on 4 March 1790, during the French Revolution.

In the mid-1790s, following the French occupation of the entire left bank of the Rhine, the northern boundary of the department was extended north beyond the Lauter to the Queich river to include the areas of Annweiler am Trifels, Landau in der Pfalz, Bad Bergzabern, and Worth am Rhein. However, upon Napoleon's second defeat in 1815, the Congress of Vienna reassigned the areas north of the Lauter to Bayern; and those territories are now presently located in the neighbouring German state of Rheinland-Pfalz.

The department has twice been incorporated into Germany: from 1871 (after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War) until the end of World War I in 1918, and again briefly during World War II (from 1940 to 1945).[1]

On 1 January 2021, the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin will merge into the European Collectivity of Alsace.[2]

Jurisdictions[edit | edit source]

Localities (Communes)[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Census[edit | edit source]

Church Records[edit | edit source]

Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

Heraldry[edit | edit source]

Land and Property[edit | edit source]

  • Emigration und Nationalgüterveräusserungen im Pfälzischen Teil des Departements du Bas-Rhin FS Library Book 943.43 R2m (The settlement of and purchase of government land by private individuals in the Pfalz region of Germany during the French occupation from 1791 to 1815)
  • Répertoire numérique détaillé de la série Q, domaines nationaux FS Library Film 908803, book 944.3835 A5rn ser. Q (Numerical index to the departmental archives of the Bas-Rhin, series Q, national lands)

Maps and Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Military Records[edit | edit source]

Notarial Records[edit | edit source]

  • Numerical index of the notarial archives of the former area of Basse- Alsace, now in the department of Bas-Rhin, France. Includes an index of notaries and clientele. (Répertoire numérique des archives notariales de Basse Alsace) FS Library Film 962552 Item 2

Schools and Education[edit | edit source]

  • Directory of the Evangelical Lutheran clergy, parishes, communities, and schools of higher learning, 1525-1694. (Die evangeliche Gemeinden und Hohen Schulen in Elsass und Lothringen von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart) FS Library Film 1045340 Item 4, Book 943 B4b v. 16

Taxation[edit | edit source]

  • Register of the revenue and list of taxpayers for the bailliage of Uffried. (Registres des revenus du bailliage de l'Uffried, 1561) FS Library Film 1165973 Item 2 (Includes registers of Stattmatten, Dalhunden, Sessenheim, Rountzenheim, Roeschwoog, and Roppenheim.)

Repositories[edit | edit source]

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

Archives[edit | edit source]

Archives d'Alsace
Website

  • Répertoire numérique de la série L (documents administratifs de la période révolutionnaire, 1790-An VIII) FS Library Film 962651 Item 10, Book 944.3835 A5rn ser. L (Numerical index to the departmental archives of the Bas-Rhin, series L, administrative documents from the revolutionary period, 1790-1800)

Libraries[edit | edit source]

Societies[edit | edit source]

FranceGenWeb - Cousins
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Research Helps[edit | edit source]

The following articles will help you research your family in France.


References[edit | edit source]

  1. Bas-Rhin (France). Archives départementales and François J. Himly. Chronologie de la basse Alsace: 1er-XXe siècle (Strasbourg: 1972), 126. WorldCat 222898250; FS Library Book 944.3835 N2b(accessed July 11, 2016)
  2. Wikipedia contributors, "Bas-Rhin," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Rhin (accessed June 3, 2020).