This is a list of free France Genealogy Records at FamilySearch.

 

Included are French birth records, marriage records, death records, military records and more. We’ll continue to add more French collections available online at FamilySearch. If you’re looking for onsite collections, visit their website & catalog.

 

These collections are all free to search. Due to contractual obligations, you’ll need to be logged in with a free FamilySearch account to view some of these records.  If you follow the link and find the record is locked, login to FamilySearch on your computer and this may unlock the collection. If you’re logged in and still see a key icon, this collection may require you to view them online at a local library. Use this Locator tool to find a location near you

 

 

 

 

How to View the Collections

  1. Some links take you straight to the collection.

  2. Other links take you to a catalog description page where you will have to select the link.

    • Look for a camera icon and select that icon

    • or look for red print and select “here”

  3. If there is a key icon FamilySearch key icon over camera icon above the camera, this collection may be digitized and online, but you will either have to be signed in to your account at FamilySearch or they may need to be viewed at your local family history center or affiliate library. Find the nearest viewing center near you.

  4. In a few cases, the collection may be in queue to be digitized and you’ll need to check back at a later date.

 

 

 

Birth Marriage and Death records #OnGenealogy

French Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

 

French Birth Indexes & Birth Records

 

French Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

 

French Death Indexes & Death Records

 

Cemeteries

 

Obituaries

 

Wills & Probate

 

 

 

 

 

Residence records census land migration voting taxation #OnGenealogy

French Residence Records

Census

 

Colonization

 

Directories

 

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

 

Land & Property

 

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

 

Taxation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Life Records school work church court government library social life #OnGenealogy

French Daily Life Records

 

Bibliography

 

Biography

 

Business Records & Commerce

 

Church

 

France – Church history

 

Description & Travel

 

Dictionaries/Languages

 

Ethnic

Minorities

 

Jewish

 

Genealogy

 

France – Genealogy – Bibliography

 

France – Genealogy – Collected works

 

France – Genealogy – Handbooks, manuals, etc.

 

France – Genealogy – Indexes

 

France – Genealogy – Sources

 

Government & Legal

 

Government & Politics

 

Handwriting

 

Heraldry

 

France – Heraldry – History

 

France – Heraldry – Periodicals

 

History

 

France – History – 1328-1589

 

France – History – Dictionaries

 

France – History – Restoration, 1814-1830

France – History – Revolution, 1789-1799

France – History – Revolution, 1789-1799 – Personal narratives

France – History – Sources

France – History – To 1848

France – History – Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598

France – History – World War, 1914-1918

France – History – World War, 1914-1918 – Campaigns

France – Politics and government – History

The history of Napoleon Bonaparte

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte : by de Bourrienne, his private secretary

France – Jewish history

 

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

 

Names & Surnames

 

Nobility

 

France – Nobility – Biography

 

France – Nobility – Dictionaries

 

France – Nobility – Genealogy

 

France – Nobility – History

 

France – Nobility – Periodicals

 

Prisons

 

Public Records

 

Social Life & Customs

 

 

 

 

 

Military records Wars Veterans #OnGenealogy

France Military Records

France – Military records

 

France – Military history

 

France – Military history – 1789-1815

 

France – Military history – 1870-1871

 

France – Military history – Biography

 

France – Military history – Revolution, 1789-1799 – Personal narratives

 

France – Military history – World War, 1914-1918

 

 

 

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