Dear all,
I am new on this forum and I thought that although Pascal is already offering some help on French records, a second native French researcher with over 20 years of experience would not be too many. After all, there are 11 millions americans with French heritage in the US and many more in Canada!
So, if you need help on guidance, translations, even conduct some of the research (limited to my availability of course), just go ahead and ask!
I can look at everything that is online:
- most of France's civil and parrish records (birth, death and marriages)
- census (for many places in France)
- military records for ALL men born after 1847. also available for many.
- some free and subscribed data bases (geneanet, Genweb - Lafayette, France, Memorial etc.)
- Légion d'Honneur (one of the highest distinctions)
- many more (cemeteries, 20th century France's casualties of war...)
I cannot go physically to local archives for further investigation as I live 10,000 miles away from France! However, I know a few people in France who maybe able to assist us with reasearches at :
- the National Archives (for Passports requests, immigration TO france etc), some of Navy records
- Military records if your ancestor was in the military (other than privates and lower ranked officers during WW1 and WW2)I personnaly own many documents that would help to find out weither your ancestor can be found in this archives before even go there; Many would also a have a military pension (including privates). These latter records are also available
- Diplomatic archives for French citizens born outside of France (La Courneuve near Paris)
I really hope that help and please do feel free to contact me should you have any questions
Romain
I am new on this forum and I thought that although Pascal is already offering some help on French records, a second native French researcher with over 20 years of experience would not be too many. After all, there are 11 millions americans with French heritage in the US and many more in Canada!
So, if you need help on guidance, translations, even conduct some of the research (limited to my availability of course), just go ahead and ask!
I can look at everything that is online:
- most of France's civil and parrish records (birth, death and marriages)
- census (for many places in France)
- military records for ALL men born after 1847. also available for many.
- some free and subscribed data bases (geneanet, Genweb - Lafayette, France, Memorial etc.)
- Légion d'Honneur (one of the highest distinctions)
- many more (cemeteries, 20th century France's casualties of war...)
I cannot go physically to local archives for further investigation as I live 10,000 miles away from France! However, I know a few people in France who maybe able to assist us with reasearches at :
- the National Archives (for Passports requests, immigration TO france etc), some of Navy records
- Military records if your ancestor was in the military (other than privates and lower ranked officers during WW1 and WW2)I personnaly own many documents that would help to find out weither your ancestor can be found in this archives before even go there; Many would also a have a military pension (including privates). These latter records are also available
- Diplomatic archives for French citizens born outside of France (La Courneuve near Paris)
I really hope that help and please do feel free to contact me should you have any questions
Romain
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