Time to break out the Veuve! We have been writing The French Genealogy Blog for eight years. In that time, we have offered up to you Dear Readers: Over six hundred posts, nearly every last one of them on French... Read more →

Things are in a bit of a tizzy today as all of France goes to the polls for the first round in electing a new president. Here, there is still sanity in the procedures. There are two rounds of voting.... Read more →

The Battle of France took place during May and June of 1940 and ended with the fall of France. Many of the military and government escaped to London and there, on the 18th of June, Charles de Gaulle issued his... Read more →

We have left The Hexagon for Albion and the Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2017 mouthful of a genealogy extravaganza in Birmingham. It is vast, quite noisy if compared to the archives we usually inhabit, fascinating and quite... Read more →