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*According to the 2010 Census, French people form the second largest European emigrant community in Mexico after Spaniards. There are around 9,500 French nationals registered in Mexico and about 6,000 to 7,000 Frenchmen unregistered. Two thirds of them are Mexicans of French ancestry holding double nationality. Many Mexicans of French descent live in cities and states such as '''Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Puebla, Queretaro and Mexico City'''.<ref>"French Mexicans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mexicans. accessed 1 May 2021.</ref> | *According to the 2010 Census, French people form the second largest European emigrant community in Mexico after Spaniards. There are around 9,500 French nationals registered in Mexico and about 6,000 to 7,000 Frenchmen unregistered. Two thirds of them are Mexicans of French ancestry holding double nationality. Many Mexicans of French descent live in cities and states such as '''Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Aguascalientes, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Guadalajara, Puebla, Queretaro and Mexico City'''.<ref>"French Mexicans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mexicans. accessed 1 May 2021.</ref> | ||
===New Caledonia=== | |||
====New Caledonia Online Records==== | |||
*[http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/recherche.php?territoire=NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE New Caledonia Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1823-1908], index and images. | |||
====New Caledonia Background==== | |||
*New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France in the southwest Pacific Ocean. | |||
*On 24 September 1853, France took formal possession of New Caledonia. | |||
*A few dozen '''free settlers''' settled on the west coast in the following years. | |||
*New Caledonia became a '''penal colony in 1864''', and from the 1860s until the end of the transportations in 1897, France sent about '''22,000 criminals and political prisoners''' to New Caledonia. Once the prisoners had completed their sentences, they were given land to settle. The Bulletin de la Société générale des prisons for 1888 indicates that 10,428 convicts, including 2,329 freed ones, were on the island as of 1 May 1888, by far the largest number of convicts detained in French overseas penitentiaries. | |||
*The convicts included many '''Communards''', arrested after the failed Paris Commune of 1871. | |||
*Between 1873 and 1876, '''4,200 political prisoners were''' "relegated" to New Caledonia. Only 40 of them settled in the colony; the rest returned to France after being granted amnesty in 1879 and 1880. | |||
*According to the 2014 census, of the 73,199 Europeans in New Caledonia 36,975 were born in '''Metropolitan France'''. The Metropolitan French-born migrants who come to New Caledonia are called '''Métros or Zoreilles''', indicating their origins in metropolitan France. | |||
*There is also a community of about 2,000 '''"pieds noirs"''', descended from European settlers in France's former North African colonies;<ref>"New Caledonia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia, accessed 1 May 2021.</ref> | |||
===Puerto Rico=== | ===Puerto Rico=== | ||
====Puerto Rico Online Records==== | ====Puerto Rico Online Records==== | ||