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 In addition to their usefulness in determining where an emigrant lived in the nation before leaving, these records can help you construct family groups. If you don't find your ancestor, you may find emigration information about neighbors of your ancestor. People who lived near each other in France often settled together in the nation where they emigrated to.
-== Finding the Emigrant's Town of Origin  ==
+==Finding the Town of Origin in France==
+If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in France, see [[France Finding Town of Origin|'''France Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies.
-Once you have traced your family back to a French emigrant, you must determine the city or town the ancestor was from. There are no nationwide indexes to birth, marriage, or death records in France. These records were kept locally.
-There are several sources outside of France that may give your ancestor's place of origin. You may be able to learn the town your ancestor came from by talking to older family members. Members of your family or a library may have documents that name the city or town, such as obituaries, church records, and naturalization petitions.
-Sometimes it is possible to guess where an immigrant originated through [[Surname Distribution Maps|surname distribution maps]].
-Additional information about finding the origins of immigrant ancestors is given in the library's [[Tracing Immigrant Origins|Tracing Immigrant Origins]] FamilySearch Wiki article.
 == Emigration from France  ==