Hello A. Williams > - I would love a copy of the article about the Boulogne records as I cannot > find it. Now I look at it again I realise that the records at Boulogne are for 1822-58 (with 2 short gaps) - which may help me but not you. Sorry about that. I can't really get the article to you, but can let you know what's in it. (It's from Genealogist's Magazine v22 no 5 Mar 1987 p351-5. Large libraries would have it I'd have thought - may depend which country you're in. They may also have a document supply service they can obtain it from for you) Other records mentioned which may help you are 1. PRO Certificates of Aliens (HO2), Aliens Act Returns (HO3), Indexes to Alien Certificates (HO5) It would be worth checking the PRO website for dates of these. 2. Archives of the French département where the frontier was crossed. E.g. Le-Pont-de-Beauvoisin - with archives at Archives Départmentales de l'Ain at Bourg-en-Bresse. This entry point to France was used by many travelling via Boulogne. It may apply only to this pre-unification time period (Savoy is mentioned), but there may be other archives. Daphne Dashfield (Geradine) GHIRARDANI, etc. 15 spellings.