I know people on this website have searches all aver Europe so there is another batch of records on line now from northeast France. This was posted by Eastman this morning. Nick P.S. The website is at the end . Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter The DAILY newsletter for genealogy consumers, packed with straight talk - hold the sugar coating - whether the vendors like it or not! Check out our other web sites: the Encyclopedia of Genealogy, the RootsBooks.com genealogy bookstore, and RootsBooks.co.uk genealogy bookstore. April 04, 2007 Haute-Saone Genealogy Records Online A French Web site has recently surfaced with a database of 439,770 records including 225,700 baptisms, 69,799 marriages, and 144,271 burials from the parish records in the French department of Haute-Saone, a part of the Franche-Comte region. Haute-Saone is located in the northeast of France and was created in 1789 during the French Revolution. The Web site contains records ("actes") from 113 communities and parishes. These records are from the years 1637-1932, but the majority are from the 1700s and 1800s. Using the site is a bit of a challenge to those of us who have lost the language of our forefathers as the entire site is in French. However, a small vocabulary of only a dozen or so words will probably suffice. If stuck, you can try any of the automatic language translation sites, such as http://www.google.com/translate_t. However, the results are sometimes comical, especially when translating old words that are no longer in common use. You might keep this list of words handy: "naissances/baptemes" are births and baptisms "mariages" are marriage "deces/seputures" are deaths and burials "Communes et paroisses" refers to the communities and parishes listed "Epoux" is husband "Epouse" is wife All dates are in the common European format of day/month/year, not in the American format of month/day/year. So if you see the date 12/3/1756 it is 12 March 1756 and not Dec. 3, 1756. At the upper left of the home page you will find will "chercher," a search engine. It has three options: Use the "interesse" option to find a baptism, marriage, or burial of interest by entering the surname you are looking for. Use the "mere conjoint, temoins, parrain/marraine" to locate a person with that surname who is a mother or spouse on a record, a witness to an event, or a godfather or godmother on a baptismal record. "Recherche avancee" is the advanced search engine where you can enter more information. You can also search through each parish by clicking on it and then choosing from the surnames ("patronymes") listed. Once you find a record for a person you are interested in, there is quite a bit of potential information on the record. Baptisms list the parish, department/province (all Haute-Saone in this case), the surname, the first name, the date of baptism or birth, the gender, the father's name, comments on the father (such as where he is from), the mother's name, comments on the mother, and the names of the witnesses. For marriages, possible information includes the parish, province, name of husband, birthplace of husband, his parents' names, the wife's name, her birthplace, her parents' names, date of the marriage, and names of witnesses. Death and burial records include name of parish, province, last and first names of the decedent, date of death or burial, gender, date and place of birth, age at death, profession, whether married, father's name and place of residence, mother's name and place of residence, witnesses, and other information. Many of these records have a serial number that you can use to order a copy of the actual record. You can find Genealogie des Vosges Saonoises Haute-Saone at: http://pcl68.free.fr/actes. Posted by Dick Eastman | Permalink