Departmental Archives of Allier – France (FR: Archives départementales de l’Allier) is the official archive for Allier. France divides the country into numbered administrative regions, called departments. This is the French administrative region, Department 3, named after the Allier River. This site is free to search.

Warning: At the time of this article, the site warned that searches by commune (town) are better than searches by date. A list of all communes are at the bottom of the page.

[su_heading size=”18″]Online Digital Collections[/su_heading]

Birth, Marriage, and Death Records

Church records, vary by commune, range from 1553-1800s, search at the same site as Civil records
Civil Registration (vital records) 1792 – early 1900s (no records within 100 years of present date)
Decennial tables, 1792 – early 1900s, 10-year lists of all births, marriages, and deaths

Residence Records

Census records, starting in 1836, censuses were taken every 5 years, except during war, they include names and surnames of each household member, age, place in household, profession, religion, and more; years online include 1836, 1841, 1846, 1851, 1856, 1861, 1866, 1872, 1876, 1881, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911
Napoleonic Cadastral maps & plans, 1807 – early 1900s, search by town
Maps of the town of Moulins in the 18th century

Daily Life Records

Genealogies and Compiled Histories, Bourbonnais families
Books
- Summary of the towns, villages, and parishes of the generality of Moulins, 1722
- Base of the fiefs of the generality of Moulins, around 1788

Military

Military registers, 1878-1921, ” Are you looking for the military career of an ancestor? Add 20 years to her year of birth and you will have her class. For example, someone born in 1888 will be class 1908. By clicking on the year of the class (year of 20 years) you will first have the alphabetical list to flip, you will find the number in front of the name of the conscript. Then, equipped with this number, you will have to find the right page in the registers.” Warning: use link above and read warning for Montluçon in 1901 and Roanne before 1900.
War Memorials of Allier

The Departmental Archives of Allier is part of the Auvergne Rhône-Alps Region of France.
[su_heading size=”18″]Departments in the Auvergne Rhône-Alps Region[/su_heading]

Department 01 – Department Ain
Department 03 – Department Allier
Department 07 – Department Ardèche
Department 15 – Department Cantal
Department 26 – Department Drôme
Department 43 – Department Haute-Loire
Department 74 – Department Haute Savoie
Department 38 – Department Isère
Department 42 – Department Loire
Department 63 – Department Puy-de-Dome
Department 69 – Department Rhône
Department 73 – Department Savoie

[su_heading size=”18″]Towns in Allier[/su_heading]

Link to a downloadable PDF with all communes (towns) and their history

[su_heading size=”18″]Hours of Operation and Cost[/su_heading]
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30am-12:30pm; 1:30pm-5:30pm
Tuesday: 8:45am-4:45pm
Closed: Saturday, Sunday, holidays, the second half of October

Cost: Free

Departmental Archives of Allier – France

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