Learning Enough French for Genealogy

On the thorny subject of learning French, we had thought to create a glossary of French genealogical terms, to put in a page in the panel on the side. Then we found a few on the internet. As we have said before, we do not like to reinvent the wheel. We found only three that seemed of any real use:

• Family Tree Magazine's French Terms  -   a single page of months, numbers, and some family terms, a good first step. 
• Ancestor Search - French Genealogy Glossary - again, a single page, with almost the same words as above. 
• Family Search - French Genealogical Word List - a much meatier offering, with spelling and grammar explanations, and an alphabet on which to click to find a word. 

For the sheer fun of learning the language via an American's diary of life in France, there can be no better than Kristin Espinasse's delightful blog, French-word-a-day. 

©2009 Anne Morddel

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[Craig Manson]

Thanks for this information! I had done it the hard way of using my "altar boy" Latin as an aid to translation!