One of the laments I’ve heard ever since I used to host Portuguese genealogy chat on AOL is “But, I don’t know Portuguese (insert your favorite language) so I can’t research the records. Well, I say “Hogwash!” I don’t know any language but English and some question my expertise in that language. Yet, I’ve been…
Category: French Roots
A Biographical Sketch of Marie Lassalle of France
This is part of the Genealympics challenges created by AnceStories and Genea-Musings in the Write! Write! Write! category. The French civil and church records are available. I found out about it last Autumn and immediately immersed myself in them. This biographical sketch comes from the records I was able to unearth on my 5th great…
SNGF: Ancestor Roulette
Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission from Randy over at Genea-Musings is to play Ancestor Roulette. They’re already dead, so there’s no losers here 😉 First, I take my paternal grandfather’s year of birth, which is 1888. Then I divide that by 100 and round off. My number is 19. Then I’m supposed to find…
Bored Vicar or Political Commentary?
Earlier this week I had come across a page of notes and drawings in the middle of the death register books forfor Ogeu les bains, France. The time period was the 1773-1773. Tonight, I was working in the baptismal records for 1761 and came across this page: These drawings and the ones on the page…
Unwed Mothers in French Records
Here we go again with the French women 😉 One of the most interesting things I have found in these French records is the amount of unwed mothers being recorded in birth records. They use the terms Fils Naturel and Fille Naturelle, meaning a male or female child born out of wedlock. In the records…