Alsace

France Alsace

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Alsace (French: Alsace; Alsatian: Elsàss; German: Elsass, pre-1996: Elsaß; Latin: Alsatia)

Smallest of the regions. Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. The political, economic and cultural capital as well as largest city of Alsace is Strasbourg. Due to that city being the seat of dozens of international organizations and bodies, Alsace is politically one of the most important regions in the European Union.

The name "Alsace" derives from the Germanic Ell-sass, meaning "Seated on the Ill", a river in Alsace. The region was historically part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was gradually annexed by France in the 17th century under kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV and made one of the provinces of France. Alsace is frequently mentioned in conjunction with Lorraine, because German possession of parts of these two regions (as the imperial province Elsaß-Lothringen (English: Alsace-Lorraine), 1871–1918) was contested in the 19th and 20th centuries, during which Alsace changed hands four times between France and Germany in 75 years.

In 1792, Rouget de Lisle composed in Strasbourg the Revolutionary marching song La Marseillaise, which later became the anthem of France.

Biography

 * 1) Dictionary of celebrated men of Alsace (Dictionnaire de biographie des hommes célèbres de l'Alsace) FHL
 * 2) Biographical dictionary of people from the Alsace region of France. (Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne) FHL
 * 3) Alphabetical listing of pastors of the duchy of Hanau-Lichtenberg in the Alsace-Lorraine area of France. (Le Pastorat du Comté de Hanau - Lichtenberg de 1618-1789) FHL
 * 4) List of the clergy during the Ancien Regime of Alsace, France. (Répertoire du clergé d'Alsace sous l'Ancien Régime, 1648-1792) FHL
 * 5) Bibliography of collective biographies of Alsace. (Répertoire bibliographique des biographies collectives d'Alsace) FHL

Census

 * 1) Rights of citizenship or residency and population listings for the former region of Alsace, France. (Droits de bourgeosie ou d'habitation et dénombrement de la population, 1746-1789) FHL
 * 2) Enumeration of the Jews in Alsace for 1784. (Dénombrement général des Juifs : qui sont tolérés en la Province d'Alsace, en exécution des lettres-Patentes de sa Majesté, en forme de règlement du 10 juillet 1784) FHL
 * 3) Census of Jews in Alsace, 1784. (Dénombrement général des Juifs, qui sont tolérés en la province d'Alsace.) FHL
 * 4) Enumeration by name of the Jews in Alsace for 1784. (Dénombrements nomitatifs des Juifs en Alsace, 1784) FHL
 * 5) Four indices to the 1784 census of Alsatian Jews (Quatre tables alphabetique du denoumbrement general des juifs d'Alsace, 1784) FHL
 * 6) Indexes the 1784 census of Jews in Alsace-Lorraine. (Index du dénombrement des Juifs d'Alsace de 1784) FHL

Church History and Records
non-local church records are listed here

History

 * 1) Anabaptists of Alsace. (Anabaptistes) FHL
 * 2) Anabaptists residing in Alsace during the Second Empire after an administrative enquiry in 1850. (Les anabaptistes alsaciens sous le Second Empire d'après une enquête a dministrative de 1850) FHL
 * 3) History of the assemblies of the Anabaptists (or Mennonites) of Alsace and Lorraine, France. (Les assemblées anabaptistes-mennonites de France) FHL
 * 4) Pamphlet written describing the third jubliee celebration in Alsace of the Protestant Reformation. (Circulaire du consistoire général de la confession d'Augsbourg) FHL
 * 5) Geographical, historical, and political dictionary of Alsace. (article: Anabaptistes) (Dictionnaire géographique, historique, et politique de l'Alsace) FHL
 * 6) Documents concerning Jews and Anabaptists presented to the Royal Council of Alsace. (Documents concernant les Juifs et les Anabaptistes présentés au Conseil Souverain d'Alsace) FHL
 * 7) History of the Sectarian movement during the Reformation, 1524-1534. Text in German (Geschichte der Strassburger Sektenbewegung zur zeit der Reformation, 1524-1534) FHL
 * 8) History of the catholic clergy of Alsace, before, during and after the French revolution. (Histoire du clergé catholique d'Alsace : avant, pendant, et après la grande révolution) FHL
 * 9) Historical notes on the Mennonite or Anabaptist meetings of Alsace and Lorraine, France. Some are mentioned in Bavaria and Switzerland. (Historique des assemblées) FHL
 * 10) Memoirs of the Anabaptist churches established in the Haute-Alsace region of France (Mémoires sur les anabaptistes etablis dans la Haute-Alsace) FHL
 * 11) Picture of past history of Alsace and the role of the Anabaptists. (in German) (Perles d'Alsace : Bilder aus der elsässischen Vergangenkeit) FHL
 * 12) Historical research on the Anabaptists of the former principality of Montbeliard, Alsace, and neighboring regions. (Recherches historiques sur les Anabaptistes de l'ancienne principauté de Montbéliard, d'Alsace, et des regions voisines) FHL
 * 13) On the history of the Anabaptists in Alsace, 1712-1713. (in German) (Zur Geschichte der Täuferverfolgung im Elsaß, 1712-1713) FHL

Periodicals

 * 1) Periodical of church history of Alsace, France. - La bibliothèque n'a que vol. 46. (Archives de l'Eglise d'Alsace : organe de la Société d'Histoire de l'Eglise d'Alsace) FHL

Description and Travel

 * 1) Geography and history of the former French province of Alsace. (Visages de l'Alsace) FHL

Dwellings

 * 1) Evidences of peasant life in the Alsace. (Témoins de la vie paysanne: l'Alsace) FHL

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1) The Alsace emigration book FHL
 * 2) Emigration from the district of Aachen, Rheinland, Germany. (Auswanderungsakten, 1816-1925) FHL Includes Erkelenz, Eupen, Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg, Jülich, Malmédy, Gemünd, Montjoie (Monschau), Schleiden, St. Vith (Eifel), Elsaß-Lothringen and Düren.
 * 3) The Baden emigration book (including emigration from Alsace, during the 18th and 19th centuries) FHL Each entry includes name, date of birth, birthplace, date of emigration and source. Alsace emigrants in separate list.
 * 4) Eighteenth century emigrants from the northern Alsace to America FHL Volume XXVI in its series of publications on Pennsylvania German history and culture
 * 5) Former Alsace-Lorraine residents migration to Yugoslavia. Text in German. (Elsaß-Lothringer siedler in Jugoslavien) FHL
 * 6) Settlers to North America from Alsace-Lorraine. Text in German. (Elsässer und Lothringer als Ansiedler in Nordamerika) FHL
 * 7) Alsatian students at schools in Heidelberg, Baden, Germany and Bologna, Italy. (Elsässische Studenten in Heidelberg und Bologna) FHL
 * 8) Emigration of people from Alsace to the United States; with emphasis on the Texas colony. (Emigration alsacienne aux Etats-Unis 1815-1870) FHL
 * 9) French and foreign travelers entering and leaving France. (Etats des voyageurs français et étrangers entrés et sorties de France, 1863-1866) FHL
 * 10) Migrations from Alsace-Lorraine to Algeria, within the region, and parts of Germany. (L'Exode de Bischwiller à Elbeuf, Phalsbourg, Mulhouse, Metz, Algêrie, Wissembourg) FHL
 * 11) Swiss immigration to the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg during the 17th century. (L'immigration suisse dans le comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg au dix-septièm e siècle) FHL
 * 12) Alphabetical lists of emigrants from the provinces of Lorraine and Alsace, France to North and South America, from 1815 to 1875. (Lorrains émigrés en Amérique de 1815 a 1875) FHL Includes their birth date, birth place and destination.
 * 13) Protestant refugees from Lorraine and Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines to Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) and to Switzerland in the 17th century. (Les réfugiés protestants lorrains et de Sainte-Marie à Mulhouse et en Suisse au XVIIe siècle) FHL
 * 14) Swiss immigrants in Alsace. Text in German. (Schweizer Einwanderung ins Elsaß) FHL
 * 15) Southern Alsatian emigration to the U.S.A.: 1840-1925: personal cases FHL

Maps

 * 1) Map of Württemberg, Baden, Palatinate and Alsace and the places from which the Black Sea Germans (including those in the Caucasus and Bessarabia) came. (Karte von Württemberg, Baden, Pfalz u. Elsaß, mit den Orten, aus denen die Schwarzmeerdeutschen (einschl. Kaukasus u. Bessarabien) ausgewandert sind (1804-42)) FHL
 * 2) Places in the Alsace-Lorraine from which emigrants left for Russia. In German (Orte in Elsaß-Lothringen, aus denen Auswanderungen nach Rußland stattgefunden haben) FHL

Gazetteers

 * 1) Place names of Alsace (former province) in 1789. Includes Belfort. (L'Alsace en 1789 : tableaux des divisions territoriales et des différentes seigneuries d'Alsace) FHL No circulation to family history centers.
 * 2) Geographical, historical and political dictionary of the Alsace region of France. (Dictionnaire géographique, historique et politique de l'Alsace) [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;titleno=180087 FHL No more published. Volume incomplete. Pp. 384-596 missing.
 * 3) Genealogical gazetteer of Alsace-Lorraine FHL Includes important genealogical addresses for correspondence.
 * 4) Place names of the former region of Alsace (Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin), France. (Répertoire des communes de l'Alsace) FHL
 * 5) Index to the communes of ALsace. Statistical information. (Répertoire des communes de l'Alsace) FHL