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