Thousands of Huguenots went to England to escape persecution and the English, that nation of curators, have been studying them ever since. The Huguenot Society in London has a website full of historical information about the history of the Huguenots,... Read more →

We have been reading lately the parish registers of one of the Huguenot strongholds. The period just after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 is full of just what the history books tell us. Dozens of Protestant... Read more →

. In the Archives A fair amount of Protestant documentation can be found in the National Archives, in series TT, but the bulk, such as it is can be found in the Departmental Archives and the communal archives, generally in... Read more →

Being Protestant in the early days was not easy and documenting the basic events in life -- a baptism, a marriage, a death -- often had to be done secretly, in hidden places,through small doors, down steep, dark stairways. As... Read more →

Very briefly, we give here an explanation of the Huguenot story -- with many links to articles on Wikipedia, for those who want a fuller account -- as a background to Huguenot genealogy. It is not a pretty page in... Read more →