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===Additional resources=== | ===Additional resources=== | ||
====Beginner Practice Case Studies==== | |||
Beginning research in French Military records the first set that has to be consulted are the registration or enlistment records. Each male resident was required to register at 20 years of age. These roles are the only record that may have an ancestor's physical description of an ancestor. To find these records it may be wise to seek the civil registration of a male ancestor first. If the birth and death were in the same locations it’s a good chance their enlistment would be in that location, likely in the modern department’s archives. To help users familiarize themselves with these records these beginning case studies have been created. | |||
Four scenarios have been created for a desktop or laptop but with little effort may be adapted to a mobile device. The purpose of this guide is to help lead researchers through three department archival sites and series R military records available online for enlistments. | |||
Warning, not all departments' collections are yet online for research, but an effort is being pushed to eventually have them accessible online for all of France's departments. These exercises focus on departments within the European continental boundaries. Areas that were at one point in French control but lay outside the continental boundaries will need to be researched individually. On many occasions, they could be held by other archives like the Outer Ocean or Outre-Mer Archive. | |||
Please select one of the links below to complete one of the self-guided exercises available. | |||
====Resources==== | |||
France. Archives nationales. ''Archives de la marine, série B service général (Navy archive index)''. Paris, France: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1969. (FS Library book {{FSC|944 A3fn|disp=944 A3fn}}; film {{FSC|962225|film|disp=962225}} item 2.) An alphabetical index to places, names, subjects, and ships mentioned in subseries B 1-3. | France. Archives nationales. ''Archives de la marine, série B service général (Navy archive index)''. Paris, France: S.E.V.P.E.N., 1969. (FS Library book {{FSC|944 A3fn|disp=944 A3fn}}; film {{FSC|962225|film|disp=962225}} item 2.) An alphabetical index to places, names, subjects, and ships mentioned in subseries B 1-3. | ||