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 For birth, death, and marriage records after 1792, see [[France Civil Registration- Vital Records|France Civil Registration - Vital Records]].
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 *'''1680-1789''' - {{RecordSearch|1987637|France, Seine-Maritime, Rouen, Indexes to Church Records, 1680-1789}} at [https://familysearch.org/search FamilySearch] — index to all "B" Surnames and images
-=== Protestants (Huguenots and others)  ===
-''See also: ''[[France Huguenots|France Hugenots]]
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-In France, Protestantism started in 1541. A synod of Calvinist reformers in Paris in 1559 decided that a record of baptisms and marriages of Protestants would be kept by the pastors of the ''Eglise réformée''. Because of wars, intolerance, and other calamities, some of these early Protestant records may have been destroyed.
-It is important to recall that not all French protestants were Huguenots: the Lutheran church, ''la Confession d'Augsbourg'' was tolerated in [[Alsace]] and their church registers date back to 1525. If you have protestant ancestors from Alsace, it is important to know if they were Lutheran or Huguenot (Calvinist). In France, the nickname "Huguenot" was given to the French Calvinist protestants; however, in English the word has come to embrace any protestant refugee from France and also Walloons from Belgium and Dutch-speakers from the Low Countries.
-Researching Protestants is difficult because these people moved frequently, sometimes from one nation to another. As with all genealogical research, it is necessary to go from the known to the unknown. To trace a Protestant from America back across the Atlantic, it is necessary to know more than just the name of a person. It is important to know relatives or at least friends who traveled as a group with the ancestor. Knowing the nation where they previously resided will help you search the records of that nation and identify the family and its previous nation of residence.
-Most Protestants did not come straight from France to North America, but fled first to nearby nations, especially after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. If your ancestors arrived in North America sometime in the early 1700s, the chances are that the family left France in 1685 and spent the years in between in a European nation such as England, the Netherlands, or Germany, sometimes moving from one nation to another. It may be necessary for you to research everyone with a selected surname, especially if this surname is not too common, rather than research just one ancestor. You also need to be aware that in going from one nation to another, the surname spellings were subject to change to fit in better in the new nation.
-It is a good idea to learn all you can about the history of these people and search every record available in the Family History Library in their area of residence. To do so, search the Subject section of FamilySearch Catalog under subjects like:
-HUGUENOTS - ENGLAND
-HUGUENOTS - FRANCE
-HUGUENOTS - NORTH CAROLINA
-HUGUENOTS - UNITED STATES
-Look for name indexes and study the history of the area. Identify their date of arrival and their nation of residence before they crossed the ocean. Do not believe everything that has been published previously, but prove information for yourself. The following sources may help researchers looking for Huguenot ancestors.
 ==== Indexes  ====