France

France ...
Capital		Paris
Official languages		French
Government
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Population

France is a country in west Europe bordered by Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Italie, Switzerland and (England). France has a population of over sixteen million people.

Genealogical Associations

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History relevant to genealogists

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Digital Archives

http://www.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/

Free

• 01 - Ain (8 octobre 2007)
• 03 - Allier (Mai 2009)
• 04 - Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (June 2007)
• 05 - Hautes-Alpes (Septembre 2007)
• 06 - Alpes Maritimes
• 07 - Ardèche
• 08 - Ardennes
• 10 - Aube
• 13 - Bouches-du-Rhône
• 15 - Cantal
• 17 - Charente-Maritime (End 2007)
• 19 - Corrèze
• 21 - Côte d'Or
• 22 - Côtes d'Armor
• 27 - Eure
• 28 - Eure-et-Loir
• 33 - Gironde
• 36 - Indre
• 37 - Indre-et-Loire
• 44 - Loire-Atlantique
• 46 - Lot
• 47 - Lot-et-Garonne
• 48 - Lozère and alternative
• 49 - Maine-et-Loire
• 53 - Mayenne
• 55 - Meuse
• 61 - Orne
• 64 - Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• 67 - Bas-Rhin (?)
• 72 - Sarthe
• 75 - Paris
• 78 - Yvelines
• 79 - Deux-Sèvres
• 80 - Somme
• 81 - Tarn
• 83 - Var
• 85 - Vendée
• 86 - Vienne
• 88 - Vosges
• 89 - Yonne
• 94 - Val-de-Marne

semi Non-Free

• 73 - Savoie

Online collections

• Gallica is the French numerical librarie. Sounds, pictures, text are free of charges. Like Europeana, Gallica use OCR (optical character recognition) for search.

Archives

Archives nationales with for french colonies, Paris archives, archive of work.

• Europeana is more what could be an european librarie. Hungary, Portugal and France are curently active. Go to Histoire et Géographie -> Bibliographies et généalogie.

Local archives

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Provincial

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Univerities

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Main sources of genealogical information

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Links to pages with more links and information

Genealogy dedicated wiki's

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Link sites

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