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150 years of Henry Cook

We need photos/memoribilia of anything to do with Henry Cook and his work in Gosport, United Kingdom and Deauville, France. Schooners, Portsmouth and Gosport Seamans Mission Halls and Coffee and Reading Rooms, Ragged Schools. Are you related to Henry Cook?

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.

Anjou Family 942 - 1217

Descendants of Fulk I "the Red" of Anjou, Count of Anjou.

Beaufort Descendants Tree

ALENCON, ANJOU, BEAUFORT, BEAUGENCY, MONTFORT, ROUCY, VAUDEMONT, WARREN, etc noble families.

Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces: Chapter 25 - The Basques

Chapter 25 of 30 chapter online book all about the Basque culture, the people, nobility, emigration, their descendants, and lots & lots of information to help you fill in the blanks about your Basque ancestors. There is so much history about the French and Spanish Basque regions. The book was written in 1907 by Francis Miltoun. It is well worth the read and chock full of useful information. Here is a quote by the author from chapter 4: "Certainly they (The Basques) are as proud and noble a race as one remarks in a round of European travel."

Douze siècles d'histoire normande & anglo-normande à travers la famille de Méautis de Normandie

Twelve centuries of Norman & Anglo-Norman history through the Méautis de Normandie family.

Early French Families of Detroit (Le De'troit) Selected Biographies

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

FamilySearch - France, Auvergne, Family Genealogies by Colonel Etienne de Bellaigue de Bughas, 1400-1900 ^FREE

A collection of genealogical information on the Bellaigue and related families principally from the region of Auvergne (France). Contains indexes, genealogical tables and source materials. Information begins as early as the 1400's. Usually gives christening, marriage and death information.

FamilySearch - France, Seine-Maritime, Rouen, Indexes to Church Records, 1680-1789 ^FREE

Card index to all "B" surnames extracted from the 38 parishes of Rouen, France. Families are linked together on genealogical forms. In most cases, names are filed by "sound" rather than strictly alphabetical. Use of images of this index is strictly limited to personal research only and is not intended to be used for profit.

FOIXSTORY : Histoire des Comtes de Foix

In French, history & genealogy of the counts of Foix.

Généalogie des rois de France

Genealogy of the House of Bonaparte

Huguenots Picards

Information on French Protestants in Picardy.

Memorial de la Shoah

Database of Jews living in France, victims of the Nazis. Listing of deportation names from France to Auschwitz.

MyHeritage - Les Canadiens-Francais: Origine Des Familles Emigrees De France $

Les Canadiens-Francais: Origine Des Familles Emigrees De France, Despagne, De Suisse, Etc., Pour Venir Se Fixer Au Canada, Deupis La Fondation De Québec Jusqua Ces Derniers Temps Et Signification De Leurs Noms (1914). MyHeritage has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Nom de famille en France : de MARTIN

Lists 6,000 surnames most carried in France.

of Anjou Family genealogy

Descendants of Count Fouiques III "Le Noir" of Anjou.

Some Descendants of Ingelger I D' ANJOU, Comte d'Anjoi, Viscomte d'Orleans

Anjou descendants.

The Knowles Collection

The Knowles Collection is group of records on the FamilySearch Community Trees Website. This database originally contained the records of a small section of the Jewish people of the British Isles. That set included less than 10,000 people. What was once a single database, has now grown to be six individual databases that now contain the genealogical records of almost 1.2 million Jewish people: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific. Read more about the collection here: FamilySearch Blog - Popular Online Jewish Genealogy Collection Surpasses One Million Entries