Thank you Caroline. I shall follow those links. At least I know the address I am looking for. Christopher Richards On 23/02/2014 22:04, Caroline Gurney wrote: > Christopher, > > There was a national census taken in France every 5 years from 1836 to 1936 > (with a couple of wartime exceptions). For the most part it is not indexed. > The following links give more details: > > http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogie/2013/04/upper-alsace-and-an-index-to-the-census-of-1836.html > > http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/a/french_ancestry_5.htm > > https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/France_Census > > I had to smile at the statement in the Family Search Wiki that: "Because > French censuses are not indexed, it is not easy to find a name in them". > Some of us remember when searching the census meant doing it the hard way > in Portugal Street. > > Caroline > > Caroline Gurney > [image: Caroline Gurney's Visual > Thumbprint]<https://www.vizify.com/es/5025c0a448d185000200004f> > > > On 23 February 2014 20:03, genealogy <cmr1ch6rd7@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > Thank you Caroline for that hint. It enabled me to find the death > registration of an xgreat aunt who died in Versailles in 1865. As always > one answer leads to a new question. In this case a son in law who is new to > me. So did the French have censuses - and have they survived? Or are there > any other ways I might discover which of her many daughters was he married > to! > > Christopher Richards > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 23 Feb 2014, at 17:48, Caroline Gurney < > caroline.gurney@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >> Don, >> >> After sending my previous message I read the home page of the Departmental >> Archives for Indre-et-Loire. You are in luck - civil registration of >> births, marriages and deaths went online three weeks ago: >> http://archives.cg37.fr/Actualite.php?theme=2&idactualite=240. The French >> Genealogy Blog entry has obviously not yet been updated to reflect this. >> >> Caroline >> >> Caroline Gurney <http://www.carolinegurney.com> >> >> >> On 23 February 2014 17:32, Caroline Gurney < > caroline.gurney@blueyonder.co.uk >>> wrote: >> The French Genealogy Blog: >> http://french-genealogy.typepad.com/genealogieis my first stop for >> answers to questions like this. Down the left hand >> side of the page are links to the websites of the Departmental Archives. >> Wikipedia tells me that Tours is in the Department of Indre-et-Loire. The >> French Genealogy Blog gives a link to the Departmental Archives of >> Indre-et-Loire: http://archives.cg37.fr/index_archive.php and states >> that: "Parish >> registers have just gone up! Also: Ten-year indices, land records, old > post >> cards and records of wills filed (Tables de successions - very useful, >> these), military conscription lists." Civil registrations are not >> mentioned, so it would seem those are not yet online for Indre-et-Loire, >> but you would need to check the Departmental Website. >> >> I have had excellent results using the online archives of Ille-et-Vilaine, >> to which I found a link from The French Genealogy Blog. The civil >> registration entry for my 2x great grandfather's death in Dinard was >> extremely informative, including details of his son and widow. The latter >> was his third wife and I would never otherwise have known that she > existed. >> I subsequently found that she was English and that he had sneaked back to >> London to marry her, despite being wanted by the police. (See >> > http://cmgurney.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/black-sheep-sunday-rev-frederick-davis.htmlfor >> the back story.) >> >> You will obviously need a good working knowledge of French to negotiate > the >> website of the Departmental Archives and the records themselves. Good luck >> with your search! >> >> Caroline >> >> Caroline Gurney <http://www.carolinegurney.com> >> >> >> On 23 February 2014 16:39, Don Montague <don.montague@virgin.net> wrote: >> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction, i.e. suggest where I >> might start looking for the records of the death of a kinsman, said >> to have taken place in Tours in the 1850s? >> Would it be worthwhile writing to the Mairie at Tours - or are there >> too many clustered round that city!? >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOG-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message