French Archives Online: Difference between revisions

<span>For the past few years France has been digitizing its archives (both Civil registers and Parish registers) and making them available online from a variety of Departmental links. In some cases, notarial records are included as part of the project.</span>  

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<span>Some Departments provide the record images free of charge whereas some ask for payment.&nbsp; There is no determining factor enabling the researcher to determine where the archives will be available for free or not.&nbsp; Only by visiting the sites will you know. This is a work in progress and not all Departements are online yet, nor complete. </span>

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<span>An example for Sarthe: http://www.archives.sarthe.com/RegistreNumerise.asp</span>  

<span>Here you&nbsp;find a listing of all the towns, villages in that Departement that have been digitized, so you can choose what time frame you need to look at.&nbsp; After that it's like cranking the wheel of a microfilm reader.&nbsp; Use the indexes as mentioned earlier in this article.&nbsp; Tools are found on the page to zoom in and out, rotate, save and/or print the original document. </span>

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'''<span>Tips</span>'''<span>(Astuces) are given at the top of the page or you can return to the main list of digitized documents by clicking on "Retour à&nbsp;l'Inventaire" where you can choose other records to search through. </span>

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<span>To find out what is available,click on [http://www.francegenweb.org/~archives/archivesgenweb/?id=adfrance#65 this website].</span><span> </span>

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