Genealogy Chat

My husband is French but his parents are Spanish, has anyone had any luck tracing records in France & Spain? I haven't even tried yet.. Thanks Sarah PS How do you get your funny names on message board ie 'cheeky monkey' etc ???

Hiya Sarah, adding to this so I can find out if you get any answers for France;; You can change your name in the account page just take out what youhave put in and change on same lines;; Good luck Babs

Thanks Babs, Do they let you know if you get a reply then? Still just 'Sarah' - will go there later, thanks!

I have nudged a thread by Kevin Norton called ''Spanish Genealogy''. I has some rather long answers on it from moi regarding Spanish records!! Merry

Merry anything for France ??? Please;; Babs

Hi Sarah, In order to find bmd info from France, you need to know where that person was born, married or died. To apply for an 'Acte de naissance' (birth cert) for example, you need to apply to the Mairie (town hall) where that person was born. Unfortunately the French BMDs are not centralised, so you have to know where people where born, married or died to be able to find the actes. Also not many archives are online. Gillian

Thanks, I was hoping to find an online site, I don't really want to start paying for records, I'll take a look at the spanish thread Sarah

Hi Sarah, It would only cost the price of postage to contact the 'Mairie'. Copies of the records are done for free. Gillian

Babs.....sorry I don't know about France. Sarah....disappointing, but there's nothing online for Spain (well, a very few odd bits on the IGI and there are some census films available to hire from the LDS, but you would have to know the area and they are not indexed!).....................think doing UK family history about 150 years ago and you are about there!! Merry

Sorry Georgina, I don't know. Gillian