Charente-Maritime, France Genealogy

 EuropeFrance Charente-Maritime

Guide to Charente-Maritime, France ancestry, family history, and genealogy:''' birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

Prefecture
CONTACT : Address : PREFECTURE Charente-Maritime 38 rue Réaumur CS 70000 17017 LA ROCHELLE CEDEX 1 Tel: 05 46 27 43 00 Fax: 05 46 41 10 30 Email: prefecture@charente-maritime.gouv.fr

Historic Province
"Previously a part of Saintonge and Aunis, Charente-Inférieure was one of the 83 original departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. On 4 September 1941, it was renamed Charente-Maritime. When first created, the commune of Saintes was assigned as the prefecture of the department (Saintes had previously been the capital of Saintonge). This changed in 1810 when Napoléon passed an imperial decree which moved the prefecture to La Rochelle."--Wikipedia

Boundary Changes
Charente-Maritime and the former provinces composing it (mostly Saintonge and Aunis):

Places/Localities

 * Cantons of the Charente-Maritime department
 * Communes of the Charente-Maritime department
 * Arrondissements of the Charente-Maritime department

Arrondissements

 * Arrondissement of Jonzac, (subprefecture: Jonzac), 112 communes.
 * Arrondissement of Rochefort, (subprefecture: Rochefort), 79 communes.
 * Arrondissement of La Rochelle, (prefecture of the Charente-Maritime department: La Rochelle), 57 communes.
 * Arrondissement of Saintes, (subprefecture: Saintes),107 communes.
 * Arrondissement of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, (subprefecture: Saint-Jean-d'Angély), 114 communes.

Neighboring Departments

 * Gironde
 * Charente
 * Deux-Sèvres
 * Dordogne
 * Vendée

Church
To search for online copies of parish registers and civil registration, go to http://charente-maritime.fr/CG17/jcms/cg17_47603/les-archives-en-ligne.

Civil Registration
To search for online copies of parish registers and civil registration, go to http://charente-maritime.fr/CG17/jcms/cg17_47603/les-archives-en-ligne.

Family History Centers
La Rochelle France Family History Center 298 AVENUE JEAN GUITTON LA ROCHELLE 17000 +33 5-4635-1265
 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Websites

 * Geneanet Charente-Maritime Collaborative Indexes
 * WikiGenWeb Charente-Maritime Portal


 * Family History Library Online Records for Charente-Maritime
 * Links to Family History Library holdings for communes of Charente-Maritime
 * To search for online copies of parish registers and civil registration, go to http://charente-maritime.fr/CG17/jcms/cg17_47603/les-archives-en-ligne.