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Searching and finding your French and Walloon (French Belgium) ancestors use to be a herculean feat . Where to start, where to look, how to make sense in what you are reading, and how to navigate through the complicated archival websites.

Today’s French Genealogy research has exploded with online search engines, repositories, and information from numerous websites. With all that, you can still run smack into brick walls.

  • You don’t know the language,
  • You don’t know the town your ancestors came from
  • What kind of online French genealogy records are out there
  • Where can I find online French genealogical records, sources and information
  • How to understand what you are seeing; i.e. Is it a birth or baptismal record?
  • Deciphering sloppy handwritten old records and margin notes
  • How to navigate through complicated repositories of records.
  • Do I have to pay for all of this?

Good news is, you as an English language person, can find answers to your questions here. You can research more easily with the help of my step-by-step how to tutorials, articles, resources, & .navigation tools.

And you can do it for free or nearly free