FRANÇAIS ESPAÑOL

CIVIL RECORDS BY DEPARTMENTS AND BY COMMUNES

-Map of all French departments by number and name, with direct access in a click to French civil records.

-Search by department number.

-Search by alphabetical order.

-Search by French regions.

-Access to the French Overseas civil documents.

-Access to the old French colonies civil documents.

 

SEARCH BY NUMBER

SEARCH BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Departments by Number 01 Ain 02 Aisne 03 Allier 04 Alpes de Haute Provence 05 Hautes Alpes 06 Alpes Maritimes 07 Ardèche 08 Ardennes 09 Arièges 10 Aube 11 Aude 12 Aveyron 13 Bouches-du-Rhône 14 Calvados (paid service) 15 Cantal 16 Charente 17 Charente-Maritime 18 Cher 19 Corrèze 2A Corse du Sud 2B Haute Corse 21 Côte-d'Or 22 Côtes-d'Armor 23 Creuse 24 Dordogne 25 Doubs 26 Drôme 27 Eure 28 Eure et Loir 29 Finistère 29 Finistère-Brest 29 Finistère-Quimper 30 Gard 31 Haute-Garonne 32 Gers 33 Gironde 34 Hérault 35 Ille-et-Vilaine 36 Indre 37 Indre-et-Loire 38 Isère 39 Jura 40 Landes 41 Loir-et-Cher 42 Loire 43 Haute-Loire 44 Loire-Atlantique 45 Loiret 46 Lot 47 Lot-et-Garonne 48 Lozère 48 Lozère-Jean-Philippe Guillemant 49 Maine-et-Loire 50 Manche 51 Marne 52 Haute-Marne 53 Mayenne 54 Meurthe-et-Moselle (paid service) 55 Meuse 56 Morbihan 57 Moselle 58 Nièvre 59 Nord 60 Oise 61 Orne 62 Pas-de-Calais 63 Puy-de-Dôme 64 Pyrénées Atlantiques 64 Pyrenées Atlantiques-Cadastre Napoléonien 65 Hautes-Pyrénées 66 Pyrénées-Orientales 67 Bas Rhin 68 Haut Rhin 69 Rhône 70 Haute-Saône 71 Saône-et-Loire 72 Sarthe 73 Savoie (paid service) 74 Haute-Savoie (paid service) 75 Paris 76 Seine-Maritime 77 Seine-et-Marne 78 Yvelines 79 Deux-Sèvres 80 Somme 81Tarn 82 Tarn-et-Garonne 83 Var 84 Vaucluse 85 Vendée 86 Vienne 87 Haute Vienne 88 Vosgues 89 Yonne 90 Territoire de Belfort 91 Essonne 92 Hauts-de-Seine 93 Seine-Saint-Denis 94 Val de Marne 95 Val d'Oise 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyane 975 Saint Pierre et Miquelon 976 Mayotte 987 Polynésie Française 988 Nouvelle Calédonie Old French Colonies Algerie (Algeria)

Departments by Alphabetical order Ain 01 Aisne 02 Algerie (Algeria) Allier 03 Alpes de Haute Provence 04 Alpes Maritimes 06 Ardèche 07 Ardennes 08 Arièges 09 Aube 10 Aude 11 Aveyron 12 Bas Rhin 67 Bouches-du-Rhône 13 Calvados 14 (paid service) Cantal 15 Charente 16 Charente-Maritime 17 Cher 18 Corrèze 19 Corse du Sud 2A Côte-d'Or 21 Côtes-d'Armor 22 Creuse 23 Deux-Sèvres 79 Dordogne 24 Doubs 25 Drôme 26 Essonne 91 Eure 27 Eure et Loir 28 Finistère 29 Finistère-Brest 29 Finistère-Quimper 29 Gard 30 Gers 32 Gironde 33 Guadeloupe 971 Guyane 973 Haut Rhin 68 Haute Corse 2B Haute-Garonne 31 Haute-Loire 43 Haute-Marne 52 Haute-Saône 70 Haute-Savoie 74 (paid service) Haute Vienne 87 Hautes Alpes 05 Hautes-Pyrénées 65 Hauts-de-Seine 92 Hérault 34 Ille-et-Vilaine 35 Indre 36 Indre-et-Loire 37 Isère 38 Jura 39 Landes 40 Loir-et-Cher 41 Loire 42 Loire-Atlantique 44 Loiret 45 Lot 46 Lot-et-Garonne 47 Lozère 48 Lozère 48-Jean-Philippe Guillemant Maine-et-Loire 49 Manche 50 Marne 51 Martinique 972 Mayotte 976 Mayenne 53 Meurthe-et-Moselle 54 (paid service) Meuse 55 Morbihan 56 Moselle 57 Nièvre 58 Nord 59 Nouvelle Calédonie 988 Oise 60 Old French Colonies Orne 61 Paris 75 Pas-de-Calais 62 Polynésie Française 987 Puy-de-Dôme 63 Pyrenées Atlantiques 64 Pyrenées Atlantiques-Cadastre Napoléonien Pyrénées-Orientales 66 Rhône 69 Saint Pierre et Miquelon 975 Seine-Saint-Denis 93 Saône-et-Loire 71 Sarthe 72 Savoie 73 (paid service) Seine-Maritime 76 Seine-et-Marne 77 Somme 80 Tarn 81 Tarn-et-Garonne 82 Territoire de Belfort 90 Val de Marne 94 Val d'Oise 95 Var 83 Vaucluse 84 Vendée 85 Vienne 86 Vosgues 88 Yonne 89 Yvelines 78

SEARCH BY REGIONS

French Regions Alsace Aquitaine Auvergne Bourgogne Bretagne Centre Champagne-Ardenne Corse Franche-Comté Ile-de-France Languedoc-Roussillon Limousin Lorraine Midi-Pyrenées Nord-Pas-de-Calais Basse Normandie Haute Normandie Pays de la Loire Picardie Poitou-Charentes Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Rhône-Alpes

MAP OF METROPOLITAN FRANCE CIVIL RECORDS:

Click on departments' numbers to access their civil records:

Most of the civil records are availables online. Some departments are still working on classify and digitize their documents. At the moment you access every website, you will be able to check whether they are or not online. If they are not available, contacting them through an e-mail or by post mail, and asking for what is needed, most of the times is promptly and efficiently responded.

Paid services of records online: Calvados (14), Meurthe et Moselle (54), Savoie (73) and Haute-Savoie (74). They charge over an inscription which could cost from 1 or 2 euros per day up to 200 euros per year.

 

ACCESS TO FRENCH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CIVIL RECORDS :

DOM: Département d'Outre Mer. - COM: Colléctivités d'Outre Mer. - TOM: Térritoires d'Outre Mer.

	TERRITORIAL STATUS	GEOGRAPHIC SITUATION	CIVIL RECORDS
GUADELOUPE (971)	D.O.M.	Caribbean	They don't have their records online.
SAINT PIERRE ET MIQUELON (975)	C.O.M.	16 miles South of the isle of Newfoundland, Canada, North America .	Interesting source of information, because French canadians (acadians) were living there since the 16th. century They don't have their records online.
MARTINIQUE (972)	D.O.M.	Caribbean.	They don't have their records online.
GUYANE (973)	D.O.M.	South America..	They don't have their records online.
REUNION (974)	D.O.M.	Indian Ocean .	They don't have their records online.
MAYOTTE (976)	D.O.M.	South-West Africa .	They don't have their records online.
POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE (987)	C.O.M.	Polynesia, Pacific Ocean. .	They don't have their records online.
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE (988)	C.O.M.	Oceania.	They have their records online.
WALLIS ET FUTUNA (986) SAINT MARTIN (978), SAINT BARTHÉLEMY, Terres australes et antarctiques françaises (984)	C.O.M., T.O.M.	See map below .	These territories don't still have their records organized . The French Southern and Antarctic Lands don't have population.

 

OLD FRENCH COLONIES :

ALGERIA (Algérie Française):

Civil records from 1830 to 1904.

Click on the map to access Algeria civil records online.

MOROCCO AND TUNISIA : Civil records of Morocco, from 1912 to 1956, and Tunisia, from 1881 to 1956, are conserved by the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères de France (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France).

OTHER OLD FRENCH COLONIES :

Archives Nationales d'Outre Mer (A.N.O.M.), located in Aix-en-Provence, France, conserves the parish records (before 1792), and civil records and decennal tables of those all territories which have been part of the French Colonial Empire since the 17th century. A.N.O.M. has records of the following colonies:

AMERICA:

Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Ile Royale, Ile Saint-Jean (Canada, Acadie Française), Sainte Lucie, Louisiane, Saint Domingue (Haïti), Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane.

AFRICA:

Afrique Équatoriale Française, Côte d'Ivoire, Côte Française des Somalis, Dahomey, Guinée, Senegal, Soudan français.

ASIA:

Etablissements françaises dans l'Inde, Indochine (Annam, Cambodge, Cochinchine, Laos, Tonkin.

OCEANIA:

Nouvelle Calédonie, Nouvelles Hébrides, Polynésie Française.

INDIAN OCEAN :

Ile Bourbon (Réunion), Ile de France (Ile Maurice), Madagascar, Mayotte.

Click on the picture below to access ANOM's website:

 

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