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The death of a soldier who died away from home is usually noted in the death records of the town where the soldier was born. Such an entry may be listed in the records a year or two after the soldier died. | The death of a soldier who died away from home is usually noted in the death records of the town where the soldier was born. Such an entry may be listed in the records a year or two after the soldier died. | ||
==== Indexes to Civil Registration Records ==== | |||
In each town's civil registration office [bureau de l'état civil] births, marriages, and deaths were written in the registers as they occurred and thus are arranged chronologically. Yearly indexes and ten-year indexes to civil registers can help you find your ancestor more easily. | |||
Almost every registrar created a yearly index of his register. Indexes are usually bound with each year's register. It is often more practical to use the town's yearly indexes, which have fewer names to search, than to use ten-year indexes. | |||
Ten-year indexes [tables décennales] were kept in a separate register. You can sometimes find the ten-year indexes for several towns in the same district [arrondissement] or canton [canton] bound together in the same volume. A ten-year index is especially useful when you are not certain of the year of an event. | |||
Yearly indexes and ten-year indexes have several characteristics in common. The registrar usually indexed births, marriages, and deaths separately. The indexes are alphabetical by surname. They usually list the given name(s), document number, and date of the civil register entry. In marriage indexes, the groom's name is usually in alphabetical order, with the bride's maiden surname listed after the groom. In some indexes, only the first letter of the surname is in alphabetical order. | |||
=== Locating Civil Registration Records === | === Locating Civil Registration Records === | ||