Haute-Garonne, France Genealogy

Guide to Haute-Garonne ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers.

History Localities (Communes) Church Records and Civil Registration (Registres Paroissiaux et Etat civil) Online

Online Local Databases and Extracted Records
Learning to Read Enough French to Do Genealogy Search Strategy

Church Records and Civil Registration (Registres Paroissiaux et Etat Civil) Online
The vast majority of your research will be in church records and civil registration. For more information on these records and how to use them, read France Church Records and France Civil Registration. '''Fortunately, these records are available online from the archives of each department:’’’

b. Add :See Using France Online Department Archives for step by step instructions on finding and reading these records.

History
Haute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. It is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc. The department was originally larger. The reduction in its area resulted from an imperial decree dated 21 November 1808, which established the neighboring department of Tarn-et-Garonne, to the north. The districts lost to Tarn-et-Garonne in 1808 were those of Montech and Castelsarrasin. Haute-Garonne is surrounded by the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aude, and Ariège. It also borders Spain in the south (province of Lleida and province of Huesca).

Localities (Communes)

 * FranceGenWeb
 * Locom
 * Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia, former localities

Church Records and Civil Registration (Registres Paroissiaux et Etat Civil) Online
The vast majority of your research will be in church records and civil registration. For more information on these records and how to use them, read France Church Records and France Civil Registration. '''Fortunately, these records are available online from the archives of each department:’’’ Here is the website for the Department Archives of Haute-Garonne, where you will find these records.
 * Department Archives of Haute-Garonne

See Using France Online Department Archives for step by step instructions on finding and reading these records.

Websites

 * Haute-Garonne Francegenweb
 * Gazetteer for Haute-Garonne