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 →
Ah, Dear Readers, this is sad news indeed, but predictable. We have here yet another example of the lower orders destroying something fine. There are those who destroy the earth and its resources for their own profit, leaving the rest... Read more →
The Bulletin des lois was the official publication of all laws and decrees of the government of France from 1794 to 1931. The supplement, published at the same time, covered a wide range of government activities and notices, from the... Read more →
We have written already about how to hunt for your ancestor amongst those pensioned off from the French royal households. What is, however, instead of being a noble at the court, your ancestor worked there? Perhaps she or he were... 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 →
The briefest of histories: In 1444, France, under Louis XI, made a treaty with Switzerland, then the Swiss Confederacy. A little over fifty years later, the first Swiss unit in the French Army, the Cent-Suisses, was formed. There was trouble... 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 →
This is a wonderful gift from the Archives diplomatiques, who are really on a roll in putting microfilmed series online these days. This particular series is of the consular registers of births, marriages and deaths of French citizens abroad. We... 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 →