My French Lineage

Bonjour ! Meet your French Ancestors

Bienvenue ! Welcome!

You might be here because you are interested in your French lineage, but…

You don’t know where to look

How and where to find French records

You don’t read French

Glossary with some of the French terms you will come across during your research

You are new to genealogy

What I wish I’d known when I started my own genealogy

Genealogy research scene featuring family history books, old photographs, handwritten notes, archival records, and a laptop displaying French archives, set in a traditional French village street.

“Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”

Crazy Horse (c. 1840-1877), Lakota leader