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== Church Records and Civil Registration == | == Online Church Records and Civil Registration == | ||
'''The vast majority of your research will be in church records and civil registration. Fortunately, these records are available online from the archives of each department.''' <br> | '''The vast majority of your research will be in church records and civil registration. Fortunately, these records are available online from the archives of each department.''' <br> | ||
===Finding Church Records and Civil Registration Online=== | |||
Each Department of France has archives that provide digitized images of these records.<br> | |||
Here is the address for the '''Department Archives of Loiret''', where you will find these records.<br> | |||
[http://www.archives-loiret.fr/rechercher-dans-l-etat-civil-du-loiret-en-ligne-65333.htm?RH=1355220516647 '''Department Archives of Loiret'''] | |||
All parish and civil records from before 1832 held by the Archives Départmentales were burned in the bombing of Orléans in 1940. The only existing copies are the ones held in the communes. The Départment is scanning them and will gradually make them available online, completing this task in 2016. | |||
===How to Read the Records=== | ===How to Read the Records=== | ||
*For more instruction on using these records, see: | *For more instruction on using these records, see: | ||