Hautes-Alpes, France Genealogy

France Hautes-Alpes

Prefecture
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History
Hautes-Alpes is a department in the southeastern part of France. It's name comes from the Alps mountain range where it is located. It is one of the original departments created during the French Revolution.

Places/Localities
Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 Departments, it consists of the former province Dauphiné and the north of Provence. With only 177 communes it is very sparse populated.

The Hautes-Alpes are divided into 2 Arrondissements (districts) Gap and Briançon and 30 cantons:


 * Briançon: Aiguilles, Briançon-Nord, Briançon-Sud, Guillestre, L'Argentière-la-Bessée, La Grave and Monêtier-les-Bains.
 * Gap: d’Aspres-sur-Buëch, Barcillonnette, Chorges, Embrun, Gap-Campagne, Gap-Centre, Gap-Nord-Est, Gap-Nord-Ouest, Gap-Sud-Est, Gap-Sud-Ouest, La Bâtie-Neuve, Laragne-Montéglin, Orcières, Orpierre, Ribiers, Rosans, Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur, Saint-Étienne-en-Dévoluy, Saint-Firmin, Savines-le-Lac, Serres, Tallard and Veynes.

Church
To search for online copies of parish registers and civil registration, go to http://www.archives05.fr/arkotheque/etat_civil/index.php

Civil Registration
To search for online copies of parish registers and civil registration, go to http://www.archives05.fr/arkotheque/etat_civil/index.php

Societies and Libraries
The Archive of the Department of Hautes Alpes has put the following records online:


 * Church Records
 * Cvil Registers
 * Cadastral Maps
 * Census Records
 * Conscription Records
 * Maps, Pictures

This link http://www.agha.fr/sommaire.html allows you to search in several databases provided by the genealogical association of Hautes Alpes


 * Association Généalogique des Hautes-Alpes Archives départementales Route de Rambaud 05000 GAP
 * Centre Généalogique du Dauphiné 12 boulevard du Maréchal-Lyautey BP 31 38010 GRENOBLE CEDEX 1

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * Archives Départementales
 * Hautes-Alpes France Genweb
 * Gazetteer for Hautes-Alpes
 * Records online
 * Extracted records online for the whole Department