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• Ancestry.com - Search Family & Local History Records

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • Choiseul et la France d'outre-mer après le traité de Paris: étude sur la politique coloniale au XVIIIe siècle, avec un appendice sur les origines de la question de Terre-Neuve

    Original source: Eugène Daubigny. Choiseul et la France d'outre-mer après le traité de Paris: étude sur la politique coloniale au XVIIIe siècle, avec un appendice sur les origines de la question de Terre-Neuve. Paris: Hachette, 1892.

  • Les canadiens de France

    Original source: Rémy de Gourmont. Les canadiens de France. Paris: Firmin-Didot, [1893?].

• Archives nationales d'outre-mer

  Heir to more than three centuries of history, the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer preserves two large groups with different administrative and archival backgrounds: the archives of the Secretariats of State and ministries responsible, from the 17th century to the 20th century, for the French colonies; archives transferred from the former colonies and from Algeria at the time of independence, between 1954 and 1962, excluding management archives remaining in the countries concerned.

• French PolynesiaGenWeb

  French Polynesia consists of five island groups: The Society Islands; The Marquesas Archipelago (Hiva); The Tuamotu Archipelago; The Austral Islands; and Mangareva (also known as the Gambier Islands).

  • TahitiGenWeb

    The islands of Tahiti lie in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. It is probably the best known of all the Polynesian Islands. Tahiti is part of what is now known as French Polynesia.

  • Wallis and FutunaGenWeb

    In the French territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands existed three kingdoms: Uvea (in the main island) and Alo and Sigave (in Futuna, in the Horn Group that include Futuna, Alofi and minor reefs).

• GeneaBank

  Base de donn

• Genealogie - Geneafrance

  A french genealogical guide to help you, plus links to general genealogy sites.

• Généalogie d'Haïti et de Saint-Domingue

• GeneaNet

  Links, articles and online databases for French genealogy.

• New CaledoniaGenWeb

• ReunionGenWeb

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Wikipedia)

  Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is France's oldest overseas territory. It's also the last fragment of a great North American Empire that stretched from Isle Royal (Cape Breton) to Louisiana.

• SAINT-DOMINGUE Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the former french colony of Saint Domingue (now Haiti).