Welcome to this site designed by Pierre-Yves LIGNEY

This site can help you to find your ancestors in France.

It gives you a few explanations about famous sites and search engines
used by French genealogists.

Here are some topics :

How to find a place in France ?
In which department is situated such place ?
Who has found information about my family ?
Does my family name still exist in France ?
Some pictures of the places where my ancestors lived

New : French archives on line

New : French Rebublican calendar

If you want to help me to improve this site, please write me and give me your comments   

If you want to search my own database  http://pyligney.free.fr/genealogy/
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