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A Jewish or German cemetery may be adjacent to but separated from the Catholic cemetery. | A Jewish or German cemetery may be adjacent to but separated from the Catholic cemetery. | ||
== Death memorials and cemetery inscriptions (Obituaires, registres des cultes anniversaires des décès, et inscriptions mortuaires) | == Death memorials and cemetery inscriptions (Obituaires, registres des cultes anniversaires des décès, et inscriptions mortuaires) == | ||
Research use: | Research use: Used to distinguish adults from deceased children with similar names in parish registers where death information is often very meager. | ||
Record type: | Record type: Obituaries, gravestone burial inscriptions and sexton records. | ||
Time Period: | Time Period: 1400-present. Some as early as the 12th century.. | ||
Content: | Content: Names, ages, death and burial dates and places, birth dates and places, sometimes relatives. | ||
Location: | Location: Church and civil archives, private collections, municipal cemetery registries, periodicals, newspapers. | ||
Percentage in Family History Library: | Percentage in Family History Library: 2%. | ||
Population coverage: | Population coverage: 40%.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: France,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1984-1998.</ref> | ||
== FamilySearch Collections == | |||
Few cemetery records or tombstone transcriptions from France have been published. Some are listed in the Place section of the FamilySearch Catalog under: | Few cemetery records or tombstone transcriptions from France have been published. Some are listed in the Place section of the FamilySearch Catalog under: | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:France|Cemeteries]] [[Category:Cemeteries]] | [[Category:France|Cemeteries]] [[Category:Cemeteries]] | ||