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For information about research in France in general, read the JewishGen InfoFiles on French resources.  For civil records, read the InfoFile FR-1@jewishgen.org

Records after 1893 are available and can be searched in the Mairies (town halls), with certain
conditions.  Look at the InfoFile for details.

Before 1892, most French records can be found only in departmental archives.  Most archives will not carry out any research (except Metz for Moselle), and many of them are not permitted to send copies of records.  Only the department of Jura has copied all their registers and will send out copies. However, most of these records have been microfilmed by the Mormons and can be ordered at LDS libraries.

For Mulhouse or other towns in Haut-Rhin, Alsace, there is a very useful family history centre in Guebwiller,  where all the microfilms from 1793 to 1892 for Haut-Rhin are available for viewing, as well as many publications.  This centre can do searches, for a fee of ask 60 FF (about $10) for each certificate found.

Centre Departemental d'Histoire des Familles
5 Place Saint Leger
68500 Guebwiller
France
 

For information about soldiers who died in this battle, see

http://www.anzac.org
 

 
German translation
 
This German university site offers free translations pertaining to
genealogy:
 
http://w3g.med.uni-giessen.de/gene/www/abt/translation.html

German genealogy site with form letters
 

This site is useful for people researching in Germany and German-speaking countries.  It has, amongst other things, a variety of sample letters in German and in Slavic languages that can be used for requesting documents from civil or ecclesiastical archives, together with suggestions for making payments.
 
http://www2.genealogy.net/gene/index.shtmll

 
German scripts

For samples of two old German scripts, in alphabetical form, together with a sample of the 'modern' Suetterlin, which was in use in the 20th century as part of a return to 'true' German sources and abruptly discontinued in the early 1940s (because Hitler, it is rumoured, was told it was an anti-Aryan plot and was actually based on the Hebrew aleph bet), visit

http://www.genealogy.net/gene/misc/scripts.html

Also on this site is an example of an entry in an Austrian marriage register and a number of old signatures by lesser dignitaries.

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