+90 useful links - Good genealogy ideas

Discover more than 90 useful links for your genealogy: databases, archives, tools, history and heritage and more!

Depuis le mois de décembre 2018 nous vous partageons, chaque lundi sur nos réseaux sociaux, des liens utiles pour la généalogie aussi appelés les « bonnes idées généalogie ». Pour votre plus grand plaisir (on espère !), nous les avons donc toutes regroupées dans cet article que vous pourrez ainsi garder dans vos Favoris !

Genealogical blogs and news

- The French Review of Genealogy : The website of the famous magazine on genealogical news.

- Geneagenda : the free agenda of genealogical demonstrations.

- Flipboard « Le mag de la boîte à outils pour tous » : more than 10,100 articles on genealogy, history, archives ...

- Flipboard « Gazette Ancêtres » : Grouping of articles of bloggers of the AZ challenge, geneathic and geneaveille of Sophie Boudarel, professional genealogist.

Archives and history of people

Archives, databases and genealogical resources

- Genealogical resources - Gallica : This page gives you access to various genealogical resources of Gallica: historical archives, nobility, genealogies, Cassini cards, militaria, official newspaper, trades and various funds ...

- Genealogical resources on nobility - Gallica : with access to armorial, the titles and genealogies of noble families.

- Alphabetical directories of the names of artists and craftsmen - Gallica : everything is said;)

- Overseas National Archives (ANOM) : To discover the funds from the Ministry responsible for overseas and the colonial administrations of these territories.

- Anchaj : Research by Guadeloupe and Martinican surname of slaves in 1848.

- Léonore database : The basis of national archives which brings together the nominative files of people appointed or promoted in the order of the Legion of Honor since 1802 and died before 1917.

- Havre disarmament : Census of disarmaments, number of seafarers, passengers, ships and construction sites ...

- Man and wolf - 2000 years of history : The database lists nearly 3000 victims of wolf attacks in France.

- The List of King's Daughters : The census of these young girls who came to Canada from 1663 to 1673 by the Quebec Historical Demography Research Program.

Unusual acts

- Ouch ouch ouch my ancestors : More than 1,800 anecdotes identified in the archives in France.

- Genectinsolites : The unusual acts of the parish registers in France.

- Geneadom : unusual testimonies in the archives - natural disasters and meteorological phenomena.

Deaths and cemeteries

- Matchid : The government's website which has listed all deaths from 1970 to today (INSEE data).

- Francegenweb-Cimetières : French cemeteries surveys by department or surname.

- Billiongraves : one of the largest resources in the world for the search for cemeteries GPS data (with images of tombstones and research by surname).

- Quebec cemeteries : safeguarding Quebec funeral heritage.

Noms et prénoms

- Geopatronyme : The famous site on family names between 1891 and 1990.

- INSEE names file : Contains the names allocated at least 30 times from 1891 to 2000 in France.

- Family names - Lexilogos : many resources to learn more about his family name.

- The Dictionary of names of Jean Totsi : Does your last name appear in it?

- Revolutionary first names : 292 pages of the historic annals of the French Revolution in free access.

- From 1945 to 2015: 70 years of first names in France : type your first name and take a look at the popularity curve of your first name.

Ancient press

- Retonews : The reference site of the National Library of France with 15,000 press titles published between 1631 and 1950.

- Old local press : Another BNF site for newspapers of local interest published in France, from origins to 1944.

- The Universal Gazetier : 15,000 links to more than 800 titles of periodicals from the 17th and 18th century, freely available.

Militaria

14-18 war

- Historics of regiments of the war 1914-1918 : site devoted to research on regiments history (with many resources).

- The Chtimist : The courses of soldiers by regiment and many photo albums of soldiers of the war 1914-1918.

- Gallica Pix : The Gallica Multicollections (14-18) search engine.

- Our ancestors the hairy : Sharing photos and hairy documents.

- The War Honest Room : List (with photos) of the officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers cited to the order of the army appointed or promoted in the Legion of Honor or decorated with the military medal.

War 39-45

- Prisoners of war : The site that lists the photos of soldiers prisoners of war 39-45.

Other wars

- French American war fighters 1778-1788 : free consultation on Gallica.

- Last Verdery War 1870-71 : List of the latest veterans of the Franco-Prussian war.

Tools

Toolbox:

- Chronological frieze : the site that allows you to create, generate and print your own chronological friezes for free.

- Unit : generate a title and its associated coverage in a few clicks - ideal for embarking on the writing of a genealogical work.

- Scribay : The writing platform to find inspiration, write and progress within a community of writers.

- Ancient Currency Converter : Perfect for projecting yourself into the daily life of its ancestors.

- The saints of the calendar and the dictations : for ephemeris lovers ...

- Bdnf : BNF bd factory.

- Internet Archive : the non-passive library of several million books, films, music, software, websites ...

- Ariane thread : Genealogical mutual aid on the Internet.

- 26 questions to write the life of an ancestor : The very useful frame of the blogger with our roots.

- 1500+ Latin/French terms for your genealogy : An article by Geneafinder.

- Small dictionary of rare and ancient words of the French language : by Charles Sabatier.

- Franco-Catalan Dictionary : proposed by the Catalan genealogy association.

Regulation

- @Docs : Access rights to public documents.

- Heritage code : Communication regime for public archives.

Paleography

- Scribe : The AD64 paleography manual.

- Paleography : by the Haute-Saône departmental archives.

- Genea-Logiques' paleography alphabet : Images to keep.

Old photos and postcards

- What to do with your old family photos? 10 steps to do well : an article of Geneafinder.

- Dating old photographs from 1850 to 1890 : Guy Joly's tips to date your family photos.

- Photographic mutual aid : site support forum of the site History-generalogy.

- Colorisesg : Deep Learning tool to automatically color your old photos.

- Matriah : The community sharing family photo and mutual aid site for identification.

- Cparama : more than 155,000 postcards from France classified by departments, municipalities and other themes.

- Cartorum : an old postcard site classified by departments.

History and geography

History

- Badass of the Week : le parcours raconté d’un nouveau personnage marquant de l’History chaque semaine (en anglais).

- French of our regions : The blog devoted to the variation of French through the regions of the world.

- Old trades : the site that lists the professions of our ancestors.

- Things to know : le podcast pour les passionnés d’History.

- Genealogy of kings and queens of France : A site by Catherine BENEVILLE.

- The court of Louis XIV : Censuses of members of the court of Louis XIV.

- The Bagnards : History, vocabulary, dates and resources by the genealogical circle of Languedoc.

- 18th century arts and trades : un site basé sur un document de 1753 traitant des Arts & Métiers.

- Large influenza epidemics from 1173 to 1999 : by genealogy Guillon.

- History des départements français : by the magazine La France picturesque.

Ancient cartography

- France in maps - Gallica : with chronological access from the sixteenth to the 20th century, access by region and access to the general map of France of Cassini.

- Go back : The IGN old card comparison site.

- From the villages of Cassini to the municipalities of today : The tool that allows you to walk around at the heart of the general map of France of Cassini.

- Old Maps Online : the site that lists all the old cards from anywhere in the world.

Heritage

- French bell towers : photos of the bell towers of France classified by department.

- Database of the archives of the Media Library of Architecture and Heritage : base that lists the main funds (protection files, work on historic monuments in the 19th-20th centuries, plans, etc.).

- Historical Library of Posts and Telecommunications : The library keeps documents on horses, postal roads, telegraph, the history of technologies and telecommunications in France and abroad, the history of La Poste, Cards and Atlas ...

- Open heritage platform (POP) : Digital content of the French bosses.

- Europeana Collections : 50 million titles digitized in Europe (books, music, works of art, etc.).