CLUSTER RESEARCH / CLUSTER GENEALOGY We have learned a great deal about the Marie Madelaine Adelaide Guerne de Tavane of Versailles, about her marriage, her three children, her sister, her parents and more. However, except for the similarity of her... Read more →
The Will of Jean David Guerne de Tavane Jean David Guere de Tavane left a will, written in December 1789, at the beginning of the French Revolution and just before his death in February 1790. Unusually, it can be found... Read more →
There are quite a lot of scanned documents about the Guerne de Tavane family to be found online, enough to do a genealogy tree going back five or six generations from the sisters who married in Versailles whom we discussed... Read more →
Updated Timeline - Again 1752 - On the 10th of June, Jean David Guerne de Tavane and Anne Fauché sign a marriage contract in Paris 1753 - 1759 - Likely years possible for the births of Marie Madelaine Adelaide Guerne... Read more →
Searching the usual online sources, especially Projet Familles Parisiennes, Geneanet.org and Filae.com, we fairly quickly were able to reproduce what Madame Fluornoy had found about the Guerne de Tavanne family in France, including a likely candidate for the lady buried... Read more →
On the grave marker of our lady in question, which may not be, it begins to seem, very reliable, her name is given as Marie Adelaide Guerne de Tavane Note that "de Tavane" is in a smaller size than the... Read more →
Who amongst you, Dear Readers, will help Madame Fluornoy with this thorny problem? If any of you may be willing and able to do some research to contribute to this Case Study, she and also we would be most grateful.... Read more →
As we wrote previously, this case is extremely short on documentation. All that we really have is a grave marker or, more precisely, a plaque on a family tomb. There, however, we have a bit of luck, in the slightly... Read more →
The issues that we have with trying to prove family legends about a French ancestor are two: A majority of them are fanciful. As we explained in more detail in our talk on French emigration, many of the family legends... Read more →
Some time ago, we were contacted by the writer, Nina Fluornoy, about her efforts to trace her French ancestors who emigrated to Louisiana. Her family had shared stories of a noble ancestress who had been in the court off Marie-Antoinette.... Read more →