Thank you so much for the information on the online parish records of Bas-Rhin!!! Also for the details on how to access them. They are so well digitized and easy to use! I will use them a lot. With my limited French it appears that the notary records have not yet been digitized and posted online. When I was there the LDS church had microfilmed the parish records and you could only access them on those microfilms, even at the archives - thus helping to preserve the original books. At that time the notary records had not been filmed, and I was privileged to be able to use the original books. What a great thing it would be if they too could be made available online! They are so full of information. Thanks again, N. H. Goodman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of NCripe Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 9:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRE] BRETHREN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 54 For N. H. Goodman and all of you on this list who may be researching ancestors from northern Alsace, the cumbersome access to original parish records at the Archives of the Bas-Rhin in Strasbourg, France has been remedied, as they are now available online (as of July 2010). You can access them thus: Go to www.bas-rhin.fr/accueil. This is the official website for the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace. On this welcome page, there will be a drop down menu in the middle of the page titled "Services" with the word "sélectionner" in the box.