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From: "John P. DuLong" <>
Subject: Index to the Cabinet des titres on CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:43:41 -0500


Hello All,

Thanks to Mr. W. Charles Hollier, yesterday I learned that there is now a
CD-ROM index to the Cabinet des titres of the Bibliothque nationale de
France. The Cabinet des titres is the collection of manuscripts containing
submitted proofs of nobility and ancestry. It is the essential place to
research any French noble family.

The CD-ROM is available from GeneaGuide.Com. Point your browser to
http://www.geneaguide.com/a-store/boutique.htm, you will then have to expand
the "CD-ROM et autres" category under "Logiciels et CD-ROM" and then select
"Bases de donnes." Wait a few seconds, and then go down the page until you
see "Rpertoire alphabtique des Six sries gnalogiques du Cabinet des
Titres de la Bibliothque Nationale de France."

This CD-ROM index is apparently based on the manuscript "Rpertoire
alphabtique" at the BNF, but it has been verified and corrected. It
indexes over 70,000 surnames. Specifically, it covers the follow series:

Pices originales,
Dossiers bleus,
Carrs de d'Hozier,
Cabinet de d'Hozier,
Nouveau d'Hozier,
Fonds Chrin

It does not cover the seventh series, but the most important genealogical
items in the seventh series are indexed in several publications.

The price is 145 Euros, which would be around $125. (For a CD-ROM this
seems a little too expensive, but the old manuscript index on microfiche is
part of a huge set costs thousands of dollars.)

I have not yet seen this CD-ROM, but I plan to order it as soon as my
finances permit it. In the past I have ordered La Chesnaye-Desbois's
_Dictionnaire de la noblesse_ and Pre Anselme's _Histoire gnalogique et
chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de
la couronne et de la maison du roy_ from this same web site. My order was
promptly processed and I had no problems installing or using the products.
(Though I must add that the scanned images are not the best. However, the
quality is on par with CD-ROMs I have acquired from Family Tree Maker. I
usually find the page I am interested, zoom in to make sure it has what I
want, and then print it off. I would hope that the quality of this index
will be better.) Has anyone out there already seen this new CD-ROM? If so,
what is your opinion of it?

It will sure be more convenient for me to consult this index at home on
CD-ROM than to hop in the car, drive to the University of Michigan, and view
the old manuscript index on microfiche. Now if the Bibliothque nationale
de France would only microfilm the entire Cabinet des titres and make it
available to the Family History Library all my genealogical dreams would
come true.

JP

John P. DuLong, Ph.D.
Acadian and French Canadian Genealogy
959 Oxford Road
Berkley, MI 48072-2011
USA
(248) 541-2894
http://habitant.org





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