A couple of months ago, one of our kind supporters via Patreon, Monsieur P., sent us this message: Stateside [my ancestors] were stone masons. In France, I think I found them in the census in Delle, where their profession was... Read more →

Dear Readers, once again our good friend, the excellent genealogist, Isabelle Haemmerle, sends a superbly informative post from Geneva. Archives of Swiss universities : lists of students on line 1874-1975 While assisting an American woman looking for the birth certificates... Read more →

Lest you have come to believe, Dear Readers, that we despise the nobility and, had we been alive at the time, would have joined the rampaging sans culottes during the Revolution, permit us to assure that it is not so.... Read more →