Your French ancestors' free public records online

 

A- FRENCH NATIONAL SOURCES

1) The French national public library

2) The French Foreign Affairs public archives

The ADEL database (not very useful yet)

3) The French armies public archives

The data base of dead soldiers (called Mémoire des Hommes)

Example of a German dead for France (Marcel Jules Deutsch)

Example of a French pilot dead for France (my relative Jules Jeannin)

4) The French metropolitan national archives

Example of a decorated American general (Charles Carroll-Tevis)

5) The French overseas national archives

 

B- FRENCH COUNTY SOURCES

1) The French county public archives

2) The French metropolitan county archives

3) The French overseas county archives

 

C- FRENCH MUNICIPAL SOURCES

1) The French municipalities

2) The online French city-archives

Example of Alès city-archives (Calvinist books)

Example of Lyons city-archives (Jews’ registration)

Example of Rheims city-archives (military hospital)

3) The online records of Paris city-archives

Paris decade indexes (1860-1932)