Have your ancestors left a succession?

How do you know if your ancestors have left testaments when they left and how to find them? We take stock.

Succession declarations and death tables are very useful documents in genealogy since they will help you reconstruct a part of family history and have access to the heritage of your ancestors.

These declarations have been recorded since the end of the 18th century to confirm the dates and collect a tax. - These are documents from the tax administration.

Succession declarations are subscribed following the declarations of town halls and hospitals or the steps of the heirs of a deceased, within a minimum of 6 months.

What information can we find out in succession and absence tables?

These tables list, over a given period and a specific territory (office), deaths in the alphabetical-chronological order.

The different tables of deaths can give us several interesting information:

• The names and surnames of our ancestors,

• professions,

• the date and place of the death or absence noted,

• age on death,

• quels étaient les biens en leur possession et leurs valeurs,

• the names and residences of the heirs and their bonds of kinship with the deceased,

• In case of testament: the date of its registration.

How to find your ancestor in the tables of successions and absences?

To find these succession tables and absences, you will have to:

• Know the office (of notary) in place according to the place of death of your ancestor

• have an idea of ​​the death period

• Consult the departmental archives - they can help you know the registration office attached to the municipality of the death

• Consult on AD sites or directly on site, the register corresponding to the succession tables and absences.

• Look for the name of your ancestor in the alphabetical-chronological list

• Take stock of your discoveries: place and date of death, age at death, civil status, successions, heirs ...

Note that: Until 1824 included, it is the table of deaths and absences observed which will be useful to you.

From 1825, you will have to consult the table of successions and absences. She will provide you with the date and issuance reports and issues.

Since 1866, there has been only one table: the table of succession and absence. She will always guide you in the registers of statements of mutations by death.

In addition, all of these documents are not always digitized and accessible online, you will no doubt have to go directly to the departmental archives to access them.

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