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*Use a gazetteer to determine which community serves your ancestor's locality. Your town might be a village too small to have its own civil registration office or parish church. Gazetteers can tell you the larger town which holds jurisdiction over that village. | *Use a gazetteer to determine which community serves your ancestor's locality. Your town might be a village too small to have its own civil registration office or parish church. Gazetteers can tell you the larger town which holds jurisdiction over that village. | ||
*Many records for French-speaking countries are now online. For Wiki articles with direct links to online records, click on the [[France Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''France department''',]] [[Belgium Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''Belgium province''',]] [[Luxembourg Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''Luxembourg province''',]] or [[Quebec, Canada Genealogy#Historic Counties|'''Quebec county'''.]] | *Many records for French-speaking countries are now online. For Wiki articles with direct links to online records, click on the [[France Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''France department''',]] [[Belgium Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''Belgium province''',]] [[Luxembourg Genealogy#Jurisdictions|'''Luxembourg province''',]] or [[Quebec, Canada Genealogy#Historic Counties|'''Quebec county'''.]] | ||
*If you have access to the | *If you have access to the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, determine if it has records from the area where your relative lived. The best sources of information in French-speaking areas are records of births, marriages, and deaths kept by civil registration offices or parishes. The library has microfilmed these records for many localities, but not all. They are currently being digitized with hopes of having everything digitized by 2020. Use the [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search '''FamilySearch Catalog'''] to determine what records are available through the FamilySearch Library. | ||
== Research by Mail == | == Research by Mail == | ||
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