MyHeritage subscribers are now starting to benefit from the company’s acquisition of the French genealogy company, Filae, two months ago.
Yesterday, MyHeritage announced the publication of 463 million historical records from France in five collections: birth, marriage, death, and two censuses. The collections provide the most comprehensive coverage available for vital records from France in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
Until now, these records have been available exclusively through Filae.
The collections cover nearly every department in France and include a high-quality index of the transcribed records and digital images of the original documents. Millions of these records are exclusive to MyHeritage and Filae and cannot be found on other commercial sites.
- France, Church Baptisms and Civil Births with 154.4 million records.
- France, Church Marriages and Civil Marriages with 125.3 million records.
- France, Church Burials and Civil Deaths with 149.1 million records.
- 1872 France Census, taken in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and consisting of 16.4 million records from 67 French departments.
- 1906 France Census, consisting of 17.6 million records from 63 departments in France. Paris is not included in the 1872 and 1906 collections, as census-taking in Paris only began in 1926.
Free searches
You can search MyHeritage’s databases for free, but to see the images of the records, a subscription is required.
By the end of the year, MyHeritage plans to publish hundreds of millions of additional records from Filae. These new collections significantly bolster MyHeritage’s historical record offering in France, with a total of 514 million French records, and bring the total number of historical records on MyHeritage to 15.6 billion.
Learn more about these French collections in MyHeritage’s blog post. Version française.
C’est magnifique.
