Anjou and Maine - Angers, Laval, Le Mans
Angers, Saumur, Cholet, Laval, Le Mans. Which empire held this ground in which years — and, the part that matters, which archive that means.
Whose archive this ground was
| Years | Who held it | Whose archive that means |
|---|---|---|
| 1110–1204 | Counts of Anjou and Maine - Angevin and Plantagenet lands | no registers survive Before the royal register ordinances. Anjou took Maine in 1110, and when Geoffrey Plantagenet died in 1151 Maine passed to his son Henry II of England, so that Anjou, Maine and Normandy for the first time had one ruler. Philip II conquered Maine in 1204; Anjou was tied to the royal domain from 1205. |
| 1204–1481 | Anjou and Maine - French crown lands and apanages (Duchy of Anjou from 1360) | no registers survive Anjou became an apanage for Charles I of Anjou in 1246 and a duchy for Louis I in 1360, with Angers as capital. After René's death in 1480 the crown took Anjou back, and in 1481 Charles IV of Anjou bequeathed Maine to Louis XI. |
| 1481–1790 | Kingdom of France - provinces of Anjou and Maine | Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire · Archives départementales de la Mayenne · Archives départementales de la Sarthe · Archives municipales de la ville d'Angers et d'Angers Loire Métropole · Archives municipales de Laval · Archives municipales de Saumur · FamilySearch · Geneanet Anjou became a province in 1482 and was given out as an apanage several times; the last reverted to the crown in 1584. |
| 1790–1815 | French Republic - Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne, Sarthe | Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire · Archives départementales de la Mayenne · Archives départementales de la Sarthe · Archives municipales de la ville d'Angers et d'Angers Loire Métropole · Archives municipales de Laval · Archives municipales de Saumur · FamilySearch · Geneanet A decree of 1790 split Anjou into departments formed in 1791, most of it becoming Maine-et-Loire; Maine became Mayenne and Sarthe. Civil registration passed to the municipalities on 20 September 1792. Maine became the centre of the Chouan counter-revolution, and Maine-et-Loire lay in the Vendée war. |
| 1815–1956 | France - departments of Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe | Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire · Archives départementales de la Mayenne · Archives départementales de la Sarthe · Archives municipales de la ville d'Angers et d'Angers Loire Métropole · Archives municipales de Laval · Archives municipales de Saumur · FamilySearch · Geneanet The departmental archives hold the records by commune; the former province is no longer an administrative unit. |
| 1956–2026 | France - Pays de la Loire region | Archives départementales de Maine-et-Loire · Archives départementales de la Mayenne · Archives départementales de la Sarthe · Archives municipales de la ville d'Angers et d'Angers Loire Métropole · Archives municipales de Laval · Archives municipales de Saumur · FamilySearch · Geneanet In 1956 Anjou and Maine were joined with Loire-Atlantique and part of Poitou to form the Pays de la Loire region. |
The rings are approximate — deliberately. They exist to shade which filing system a place fell under, not to adjudicate a border. A place near a ring's edge should be checked against both neighbours.
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The map takes a range, and a range that crosses one of the rows above is where records get lost: the family never moved, and the archive on the far side of the handover will tell you it holds nothing.
2 places on this ground
118 FamilySearch collections reach this ground
Ranked with the regional ones first — a collection for a province is usually a better lead than a national index, though the national index is often where a name is actually written down. A free account opens the images.
- L'Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) ↗ 1882–2023 27,001,076 records regional
- Luxembourg, Census Records, 1843-1900 ↗ 1843–1900 4,105,764 records regional
- Luxembourg, Church and Civil Registration, 1601-1923 ↗ 1601–1923 3,005,872 records regional
- Luxembourg, Civil Registration, 1796-1941 ↗ 1796–1941 253,875 records regional
- Luxembourg, Births and Baptisms, 1662-1840 ↗ 1662–1840 7,705 records regional
- Luxembourg Marriages, 1700-1810 ↗ 1700–1810 1,663 records regional
- Luxembourg, Deaths and Burials, 1702-1798 ↗ 1702–1798 1,245 records regional
- Luxembourg, Church Records, 1601-1948 ↗ 1601–1948 0 records regional
- Luxembourg, Notarial Records, 1621-1821 ↗ 1621–1821 0 records regional
- France, Insee Social Security Death Index, 1970-2022 ↗ 1970–2022 27,217,470 records
- France, Côtes-d'Armor, Parish and Civil Registration, 1467-1920 ↗ 1467–1920 9,861,214 records
- France, Haute-Garonne, Parish and Civil Registration, 1539-1993 ↗ 1539–1993 8,970,706 records
- France, Nord, Parish and Civil Registration, 1524-1893 ↗ 1523–1893 8,717,405 records
- France, Isere, Parish and Civil Registration, 1540-1900 ↗ 1539–1900 8,331,658 records
- France, Dordogne, Church and Civil Registration, 1540-1897 ↗ 1539–1897 7,857,723 records
- France, Savoie, Parish and Civil Registration, 1500-1927 ↗ 1500–1927 7,363,246 records
- France, Saône-et-Loire, Parish and Civil Registration, 1530-1892 ↗ 1530–1892 7,228,055 records
- France, Mayenne, Parish and Civil Registration, 1427-1897 ↗ 1426–1897 5,403,554 records
- France, Indre, Parish and Civil Registration, 1564-1905 ↗ 1564–1905 5,322,228 records
- France, Births and Baptisms, 1546-1896 ↗ 1546–1896 5,313,811 records
- France, Pas-de-Calais, Parish and Civil Registration, 1553-1902 ↗ 1553–1902 5,177,375 records
- France, Bas-Rhin, Parish and Civil Registration, 1525-1912 ↗ 1525–1912 4,303,261 records
- France, Aude, Parish and Civil Registration, 1537-1882 ↗ 1537–1882 4,272,925 records
- France, Creuse, Parish and Civil Registration, 1568-1903 ↗ 1568–1903 4,179,408 records
- France, Eure-et-Loir, Parish and Civil Registration, 1526-1902 ↗ 1525–1902 4,131,623 records
- France, Landes, Parish and Civil Registration, 1580-1898 ↗ 1580–1898 3,896,260 records
- France, Haute-Saône, Parish and Civil Registration, 1551-1872 ↗ 1551–1872 3,757,991 records
- France, Seine-Maritime, Civil Registration, 1793-1879 ↗ 1793–1879 3,390,985 records
- France, Ardennes, Parish and Civil Registration, 1558-1893 ↗ 1558–1893 2,800,279 records
- Africa, French Colonial Civil Registration Records, 1700–1950 ↗ 1700–1950 2,789,809 records
- France, Loire-Atlantique, Civil Registration, 1792-1960 ↗ 1792–1960 2,710,678 records
- France, Charente, Parish and Civil Registration, 1550-1936 ↗ 1549–1936 2,579,938 records
- France, Brittany, Church and Civil Records, 1521-1896 ↗ 1520–1905 2,427,746 records
- France, Var, Civil Registration, 1793-1914 ↗ 1793–1914 2,306,783 records
- France, Ariège, Parish and Civil Registration, 1583-1923 ↗ 1583–1923 2,306,239 records
- France, Hautes-Alpes, Parish and Civil Registration, 1583-1931 ↗ 1583–1931 2,301,156 records
- France, Vosges, Parish and Civil Registration, 1522-1956 ↗ 1522–1956 2,184,571 records
- France, Pyrénées-Orientales, Parish and Civil Registration, 1451-1897 ↗ 1451–1897 2,081,774 records
- France, Vendée, Parish and Civil Registration, 1508-1894 ↗ 1508–1894 1,994,474 records
- France, Morbihan, Parish and Civil Registration, 1536-1894 ↗ 1535–1894 1,975,120 records
- France, Loiret, Civil Registration, 1793-1906 ↗ 1793–1906 1,965,105 records
- France, Calvados, Civil Registration, 1792-1942 ↗ 1792–1942 1,692,790 records
- France, Ardèche, Parish and Civil Registration, 1481-1924 ↗ 1481–1924 1,446,261 records
- France, Nord, Census, 1906 ↗ 1906–1906 1,339,687 records
- France, Gironde, Civil Registration, 1696-1912 ↗ 1696–1912 1,219,475 records
- France, Marriages, 1546-1924 ↗ 1546–1924 1,178,188 records
- France, Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, Church Records, 1539-1793 ↗ 1538–1793 826,831 records
- France, Loire-Atlantique, Nantes, Civil Registration, 1747-1907 ↗ 1747–1907 770,219 records
- France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Parish and Civil Registration, 1523-1932 ↗ 1522–1932 707,658 records
- France, Saône-et-Loire, Census, 1876 ↗ 1876–1876 692,910 records
- France, Saône-et-Loire, Census, 1896 ↗ 1896–1896 622,811 records
- France, Côtes-d'Armor, Census, 1876 ↗ 1876–1876 618,426 records
- France, Coutances et d'Avranches Diocese, Catholic Parish Records, 1533-1894 ↗ 1532–1894 613,224 records
- France, Saône-et-Loire, Census, 1856 ↗ 1856–1856 577,784 records
- France, Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, Civil Registration, 1792-1893 ↗ 1792–1893 548,009 records
- France, Saône-et-Loire, Census, 1836 ↗ 1836–1836 545,834 records
- France, Dordogne, Censuses, 1856 ↗ 1851–1861 530,703 records
- France, Dordogne, Censuses, 1876 ↗ 1871–1881 497,323 records
- France, Dordogne, Census, 1836 ↗ 1836–1836 489,379 records
- France, Dordogne, Censuses, 1891 ↗ 1891–1891 471,373 records
…and 58 more.