Online archives for Lyon, France, and thereabouts...

[Christine in Herts]

A poster on a Rootsweb mailing list has drawn attention to this link (which I have just added to the Wiki):

Archives en ligne - Archives municipales de Lyon

That page has links to:

Plus d'archives en ligne dans la région :

* Ain
* Ardèche
* Drôme
* Savoie
* Romans
* Saint-Etienne

I was getting some error messages:

The system returned:

(111) Connection refused

The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

when trying to get access to the actual searches, but am hopeful that this is a transient problem.

Christine

[taffyfrog]

Wow, I like this - Can get in no problem and see scans of registers

Also the Archives Departementales du Nord also have a similar project going but when I last looked they didn't have the scans of the actual registers yet
-only the 'tables décennales' and the 1906 census mainly

Site web des Archives départementales du Nord - Archives en ligne - Tables décennales - Tables décennales

[Richard in Perth]

Ah brilliant, thank you so much for this! I was looking for a distant rellie who claimed to be born in Lyons. I was pretty sure where he fitted in on the tree, and now on this site I've found not only his baptism, but his parents marriage too, which confirms what I had suspected (he moved to America, then married his 1st cousin in England!). So, I'm happy to find the original docs to prove it all - and for free too, which is even better!

Cheers,
Richard

[Christine in Herts]

I'm so glad I shared this! Just wish I had some names in that area... or, maybe, not. It's probably quite tricky!

Christine

[Mary from Italy]

Taffy, am I right in thinking the Archives Départementales du Nord don't have Paris online?

[kylejustin]

most of mine seem to be from brittany. i do have some from normandy and paris though. i swore i had someone from lyons, but i must be getting them confused with bordeaux!!

[Christine in Herts]

Ok so it seems I am being a bit dumb:o
I have clicked on link, gone to english summary,then resources online,then access to collections online then it tells me the webpage cannot be found:(
what am i doing wrong please

Did you get the same message as I did?
I suspect that something you have been using is the same as I was using: a Mac and Firefox / Camino... both Mozilla browsers. Have you tried a different browser?

Christine

[Christine in Herts]

Amend that - I've got it to work OK on Camino:

1. Ignored the English bit
2. clicked on the text "Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil de lyon et des communes annexées : 1532 à 1932" (opens in new window)
3. clicked on "> accéder aux registres" (opens in new window)
4. the new window has the search options

Christine

[jean]

Thanks Christine, I have just discovered that