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Tracing the history of our French home – Part 5

August 23, 2020February 13, 20211 Comment

Google is your friend During the confinement, at the start of my search (and not really knowing what I was looking for!), I got a bit bored and started googling the name of the mill/ the river we’re on/ the name of the village in various permutations. Once I had got through several pages of … Continue reading Tracing the history of our French home – Part 5

Tracing the history of our French home – Part 3

August 9, 2020February 13, 20212 Comments

Military service records - Les matricules militaires Yeah. I  know. I didn't think it would be relevant either at first. I was well into my search for clues regarding the history of our watermill in France and had seen the link to Les matricules militaires, registers of military service, whenever I visited the website of … Continue reading Tracing the history of our French home – Part 3

Tracing the history of our french home – Part 2

July 24, 2020February 13, 20212 Comments

Using the births, deaths and marriages registers If you read my last post about how I used the census returns in the online departmental archives to make a start on tracing the owners of our mill, you’ll know just how useful they are. But as a census is only conducted once every few years I … Continue reading Tracing the history of our french home – Part 2

Tracing the history of our french home – Part 1

July 20, 2020February 13, 20214 Comments

Using census records When I ponder about the history of our French water mill, I guess one of the things that immediately comes to mind is the people who lived and worked here. One of the old post cards that I had managed to find shows a couple standing outside the mill. The figures are … Continue reading Tracing the history of our french home – Part 1

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