People from France

Genealogy

If you are looking for villages or towns, try www.quid.fr

www.notrefamille.com "Our Family", an excellent web site with much information about French famillies, villages, towns and cities. There is a huge collection of old postcards. This will prove to be a good source of information for tracing roots.

Finding family & friends

We are often requested to assist in tracing family names and birth places, so here are a few tips to help you in your reserach.

Family names rarely use a spelling which include the letters "TH"

The French revolution forced many people to change their family names, as they attempted to any notion of a noble family history. For example a family called De la Fontaine would have changed the name to just Fontaine, or De Roi would have shorted the name to Derois.

Searching for people

If you are looking for people one of the best places to begin your search is by using the telephone directory : White pages, from the main French telephone company and available in English.