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…
Category: French Roots
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…
Women in French Records
I’ve had a chance to work with French civil records recently. Prior to this, I’ve worked with the Azores (primarily Sao Miguel Island) and, of course, records in Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York. In most cases pre-1900 women are a non-entity. Their full name might be record and it might now. They could be…