Loiret, France Genealogy
Guide to Loiret, France ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
Online Church Records and Civil Registration
The vast majority of your research will be in church records and civil registration. Fortunately, these records are available online from the archives of each department.
Finding Church Records and Civil Registration Online
Each Department of France has archives that provide digitized images of these records.
Here is the address for the Department Archives of Loiret, where you will find these records:
All parish and civil records from before 1832 held by the Archives Départmentales were burned in the bombing of Orléans in 1940. The only existing copies are the ones held in the communes. The Départment is scanning them and will gradually make them available online, completing this task in 2016.
How to Read the Records
- For more instruction on using these records, see:
Learning to Read Enough French to Do Genealogy
- It's easier than you think! You do not have to be fluent in French to use these records, as there is only a limited vocabulary used in them. By learning a few key phrases, you will be able to read them adequately. Here are some resources for learning to read French records.
- There is a three-lesson course in reading French Records:
Places/Localities
Cantons within the Arrondissement of Montargis
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Cantons within the Arrondissement of Orléans
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Cantons within the Arrondissement of Pithiviers
- Beaune-la-Rolande
- Malesherbes
- Outarville
- Pithiviers
- Puiseaux