FRENCH

GENEALOGY
Marie Johnson

RECORD TYPES

BIRTH
Information on a Birth
Record
Name of the child
Place of birth
Date of birth
Name of parents

BAPTISM
Includes similar information to a birth record with the addition of -date of baptism, occupation of father, and name of the godparents (who are often relatives).

MARRIAGE

MARRIAGE
Information on a Marriage Record
Name of the bride and groom
Names of their parents
Place of marriage
Date of marriage
Name of parents
Witnesses to the marriage (often relatives)
*Also helpful to your research will be marriage bans,
marriage dispensations, and divorce records which give
similar information

DEATH
Information on a Death Record
Place of death/burial
Name of the deceased
Profession
Age at death
Name of Spouse
Place of birth
Name of Parents

Immigration
& Citizenship
Information Included:
Name of
immigrant/emigrant
Place of birth
Date of birth
Profession (occasional)
Place of Arrival
Date of Arrival

Bibliography
Birth & Marriage record image: Geanaservice.com
Baptism & Death record image: Ancestry.com
Image of Marriage: Jacques Callot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Image of Irancy, France: By Olivier Colas (http://olouf.fr) (Own work) [GFDL
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons