Source Information

Ancestry.com. Rhône, France, Birth, Marriages and Death Registers, 1668-1922 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020.
Original data: Archives départementales du Rhône, Lyon, France. Actes de naissance, de mariage et de décès.

About Rhône, France, Birth, Marriages and Death Registers, 1668-1922

This collection contains birth, marriage, and death registers from Rhône, France. These civil records began under the French Republic in 1793 and records continue until 1917.

The department of Rhône was created in 1793. Civil registration of vital events was instituted under the First French Republic and have continued from that time in France. The standardization of forms on a national level was a large step forward in official record keeping, and helped usher in the modern era of national record keeping.