pottoka
07-01-2010, 10:27 PM
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They have digitalised five million records, notably bmds from 1860 to 1902, which can now be consulted directly online. http://bestsmileys.com/clapping/3.gif
This is the link: http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/.lut?page_id=149
Top right, it says that you can choose the language (English/Español) you prefer, but don't be taken in by that as it takes you to a site for Paris for tourists. You need to go down to "Les archives numérisées sont en ligne !", a headline on a blue background over on the right side. There's a short paragraph underneath and "Consulter les archives numerisées" which you click on to open a new page.
When looking for a certificate (un acte), the best thing is to look it up in the ten-year tables (les tables décennales). This is particularly useful in Paris if you don't know in which district (arrondissement) the birth was registered in.
If you choose the ten-year tables, click on "accédez aux tables décennales". Due to the fire in 1871, these only cover 1860 to 1902. You will be taken to a new page, where you have to choose the type of certificate you are looking for, from drop-down menus: birth (acte de naissance); marriage (acte de mariage) and death (acte de décès). Then you choose the dates you want: 1860-1872; 1873-1882; 1883-1892; 1893-1902. If you are lucky enough to know which district of Paris the event took place in, you choose that; if you don't know, just miss that menu and you will be offered all the districts to trawl through. Finally you write in the surname you are looking for.
Click on "Rechercher" and a new page will open with, for one district, four boxes. The first box tells you the first name at the top of the first page being offered; the second box tells you the last name on the last page. The third box is a reference number for the register, and the fourth is a picture of an eye on which you click to load the images with the number of pages. For example, I did a trial for you with Bordenave, a local name in our region. I was offered 22 pages from Bizant to Bougant.
Clicking on the eye loads the first page, but you can click several times, and they skip to the last click and load quickly. There is also a slide at the top of the page to move from page to page which is probably a better way to change pages. There is a dimmer/brightener (I hope that there aren't technical words for these things), a zoom, a padlock (to lock the zoom), and two signs which look more like laundry signs to me (|laugh1|) The one with a sheet being dipped into a bowl of water is to print the image; if you put the cursor near it, it says "imprimer"; the one with a blue cross in a square which becomes red and says "retour" when the cursor comes close takes you back to the page with the boxes where you can start a new search or modify the one you were doing.
If you don't choose a district, you will get a page with the four boxes for each district. When you have looked at one district, it becomes shaded, so you don't get lost with what you've done and not done.
I hope this is clear enough. Tomorrow, I'll come back and tell you what to do when you've found your certificate in the ten-year tables.
They have digitalised five million records, notably bmds from 1860 to 1902, which can now be consulted directly online. http://bestsmileys.com/clapping/3.gif
This is the link: http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/.lut?page_id=149
Top right, it says that you can choose the language (English/Español) you prefer, but don't be taken in by that as it takes you to a site for Paris for tourists. You need to go down to "Les archives numérisées sont en ligne !", a headline on a blue background over on the right side. There's a short paragraph underneath and "Consulter les archives numerisées" which you click on to open a new page.
When looking for a certificate (un acte), the best thing is to look it up in the ten-year tables (les tables décennales). This is particularly useful in Paris if you don't know in which district (arrondissement) the birth was registered in.
If you choose the ten-year tables, click on "accédez aux tables décennales". Due to the fire in 1871, these only cover 1860 to 1902. You will be taken to a new page, where you have to choose the type of certificate you are looking for, from drop-down menus: birth (acte de naissance); marriage (acte de mariage) and death (acte de décès). Then you choose the dates you want: 1860-1872; 1873-1882; 1883-1892; 1893-1902. If you are lucky enough to know which district of Paris the event took place in, you choose that; if you don't know, just miss that menu and you will be offered all the districts to trawl through. Finally you write in the surname you are looking for.
Click on "Rechercher" and a new page will open with, for one district, four boxes. The first box tells you the first name at the top of the first page being offered; the second box tells you the last name on the last page. The third box is a reference number for the register, and the fourth is a picture of an eye on which you click to load the images with the number of pages. For example, I did a trial for you with Bordenave, a local name in our region. I was offered 22 pages from Bizant to Bougant.
Clicking on the eye loads the first page, but you can click several times, and they skip to the last click and load quickly. There is also a slide at the top of the page to move from page to page which is probably a better way to change pages. There is a dimmer/brightener (I hope that there aren't technical words for these things), a zoom, a padlock (to lock the zoom), and two signs which look more like laundry signs to me (|laugh1|) The one with a sheet being dipped into a bowl of water is to print the image; if you put the cursor near it, it says "imprimer"; the one with a blue cross in a square which becomes red and says "retour" when the cursor comes close takes you back to the page with the boxes where you can start a new search or modify the one you were doing.
If you don't choose a district, you will get a page with the four boxes for each district. When you have looked at one district, it becomes shaded, so you don't get lost with what you've done and not done.
I hope this is clear enough. Tomorrow, I'll come back and tell you what to do when you've found your certificate in the ten-year tables.