Re: How to research your family from France
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In reply to:
How to research your family from France
Agie Klassen 3/19/10
This would depend on:
Where they were from- if you do have exact details of place that helps immensely. Some departments have put information online.
When you are looking for info - e.g. earlier means parish records, later there are civil records, if you are looking at Huguenots that's an entirely different kettle of fish, etc.
Try reading through:
http://genealogy.about.com/od/france/a/french_ancestry.htmhttp://genealogy.about.com/od/france/a/french_ancestry.htm
You may need to do more research in the country where they emigrated to before you are able to pin them down in France.
Some good general sites:
http://www.geopatronyme.com/http://www.geopatronyme.com/
(will give you a map of where the surname was found, based on birth records, from 1891 onwards. Allows you to work out how common the name was/is and in which areas in general it was found)
http://www.geneanet.org/http://www.geneanet.org/
- in case somebody else is researching the same family.
If you can give details of WHO, WHEN, and WHERE (e.g. where they emigrated to as well as where the place "Marques" came from) I can give more specific advice.
There is a commune called Marques in Seine-Maritime, which may be the place you are looking for. Or it may be somewhere else entirely that just sounds similar.