Vital Records Index: French Region
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This CD contains information from birth, christening, and marriage records from selected parishes in France. Some names found in the Vital Records Index may also be found on the International Genealogical Index (IGI) produced by the Church.
This index includes:
- Records that cover an approximate time period from 1550 to 1905.
- Approximately 1,003,000 christening records and 243,000 marriage records for France.
- The names of the individual; the parents' names when available; the date and place where the birth, christening, or marriage was registered; and the name of the individual's spouse.
- Reference information that allows you to locate the original record on microfilm.
This is not a complete index. Your ancestor may not appear here even though you know he or she lived in a time and place covered by the index. Because of certain restrictions, only selected cities or towns were extracted. The Church will continue to update the Vital Records Index, adding millions of new names with each update.
Localities used within this index are generally represented as they were in the mid-1800s. While this does not take into account border changes in earlier or later time periods, it does closely represent the proper localities for the majority of the records found in this collection.
The departments of Haut Rhin and Bas Rhin in France, have, at different times, been under Germany. When under Germany these divisions were known as Ober Elsass (Upper Alsace), Unter Elsass (Lower Alsace) and Lothringen (Lorraine). In order to make searching this region more practical, we have included all of Alsace-Lorraine under France, regardless of time period. Look under France, for Alsace-Lorraine, even for those time periods when this locality would have been under German rule.
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Updated 28 March 2002