Present description

Territorial Subdivision

• Régions and Départements

  France: Administrative Divisions (Political) 1991 (UT Library Online)

  • Nord - Pas de Calais (Les Flandres)

    • 59 - Département du Nord

  • Picardie

    • 02 - Département de l'Aisne

  • Champagne-Ardennes

    • 08 - Département des Ardennes

  • Lorraine

    • 55 - Département de la Meuse
    • 54 - Département de Meurthe et Moselle
    • 57 - Département de la Moselle

  • Alsace

    No Belgian link, but did have a same range of problems as Belgium

Short history with bibliography

Sources

Repositories

Societies

• Internet

  • French Genealogical Associations on the Internet
    Site List of the departemental, regional and national associations. At the end those abroad.

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

• Ports of Departure
  • Cherbourg
  • Le Havre

Families and Family Histories

• Family Histories

  • Famille SEYNAVE by Roger Seynave (CAN) and Valerie Seynave (FRA) (in French)

Sciences

• Cartography

  • Political Map of Europe (ca 1807)
  • Departemental Maps, with town locations
  • Historic Map data about Burgundy (and France in general)
  • Info about the Cassini maps of France (18th century - 1760/1789) by IGN (French)

• Onomastics

  • GencomDatabase of French place names, submitted by genealogists.
  • Etude linguistique ou historique de l'origine des noms de lieu en Flandre-française. (French, exists also in Dutch

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