Find the trace of the marriages of the 19th century in Calvados! » The economic and political letter of PACA
With 535,000 marriages, i.e. more than one million individuals, recorded between 1793 and 1902 in all the municipalities of the Calvados department, the large-scale collaborative project has just completed the complete counting of its twenty-second department. .
The migratory flows of the XIXe and XXe centuries have helped define the world we know today. However, any genealogist knows how difficult they can make accessing the distant branches of his family tree. With the aim of listing on the same European basis all the matrimonial acts of this given period, the project “19th Century Wedding Tables”, supported by Geneanet, facilitates the reconstruction of one’s genealogical ancestry – especially for beginners – up to the Revolution! After having completely surveyed the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Ariège, Oise, Vosges, Aude, Guadeloupe, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Doubs, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vaucluse, Tarn, Charente, Var, Puy-de-Dôme, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Garonne, Hérault, Cantal, Haute – Loire and Haut-Rhin, this solidarity and voluntary initiative is now referenced all of the marriages of the 19th century in Calvados.
For the past ten years, archive services have made civil status registers and ten-year tables recorded in their department available on their websites. From these resources, and with the help of genealogist associations, Geneanet supports the project “19th Century Wedding Tables”, freely accessible and completely free. Despite migrations, this makes it possible to instantly find the marriage of one’s ancestors, without even having to know the town, and to go back to the Ancien Régime in record time.
In the specific case of the Calvados department, this approach was made possible thanks to the project coordinator, Nicolas Delaunay, and more than 60 volunteers, and in particular Martial Dan, Nicole Polle and the Honfleur-Pays d’Auge association, who participated in the surveys.
This project, of which the counting of Calvados marriages in their entirety marks a significant step, sees the departments of Rhône and Bouches-du-Rhône come to the end of their statements soon, while all the French departments will necessarily have to seize it marriage certificates from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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