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 →
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 →
At the risk of seeming a Luddite, we dare to come out against the use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, as they are at the moment, for genealogical, or any other research. We have read the many excited... Read more →
We have had a missive from Christine and Laure, who write the wonderful blog Généalogie Alsace. They have put together a brief series of instructional posts for those who live far from that pretty region of France and must research... Read more →
Many years ago, we worked in aid in East Africa. We poured our heart and soul into the projects, particularly one to train trainers, very much à la mode in the aid world at the time. We arrived after months... Read more →
We opine, Dear Readers, that it is unfortunate that the words for our staying at home during this pandemic are all words used for imprisonment, such as "confinement" or "lock down". In truth, we are not in prison. We are... Read more →
The most interesting talk that we attended at the Salon de la généalogie was that given by historian, author, researcher, and an editor of Criminocorpus (about which we have written here), Dr. Jean-Claude Farcy, on the database that he created,... Read more →
A brief update on crucial indexing resources becoming available to you Dear Readers, albeit in the most chaotic way imaginable. Recall that we have explained many times that France's birth, marriage and death registrations, whether parish or civil, are created... Read more →
It has been a difficult summer so far. A week of insanely high temperatures has left the garden parched, even after the relief of rain. The garden was then invaded by rats, vile creatures, harbingers of disease, detested. Using no... Read more →
We do love some of the labours of love on the part of amateur historians and genealogists that achieve a level of true expertise, as with our case in point today. Occasionally, someone writes a comment on a FGB post... Read more →