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Genealive
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A genealogy blog focused on French and American research with how-to.
- Added on: May 28th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Blaise Marion
- Listed in: History Reference
- Tags: genealogy france archives ancestors american genealogy french genealogy
Recent Posts
A Memorial to our Soldiers in every French Village…
Visit any French village and you will see always see three constructions: the church, the town hall and a memorial honoring the victims of World War I. This monument can be very interesting for your genealogy research. Build most of the time with fun...
A French Oddity: The French Revolutionary Calendar.
1793 to 1805: a period dreaded by many French Genealogists. France was working with a very different calendar: the Revolutionary Calendar. It was created in the same idea as the metric system: show the difference with the old sytem and make it cons...
Tables Décennales, Tables Annuelles: It’s all Indexed!
Finding your ancestor in public records is always easy if you know the date and place where the event took place. What if you don’t know one of the two pieces of information or worse both? You will need some sort of index. Well there is great n...
Death: It happens to all of us!
It’s a fact, we will die. Sooner or later. For many of us, the “when” and “where” questions are important ones. These questions can unfortunately (or fortunately) be answered only for our ancestors. The death record or acte de ...
Civil Marriage Records: a Genealogist’s Goldmine
Since 1792, the marriage celebrated in France before a religious authority has a value only in the eyes of God, not of the French secular State. Only the civil marriage, always celebrated before the optional religious ceremony, is recognized. It is o...
Birth Records in France
The birth record or acte de naissance replaced the baptism record formerly done by priests. It is therefore not a surprise that a lot of the information is the same. To request a copy of a birth record, you will need two pieces of information in addi...
