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From: "J. Marvin Chastain" <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Records of Huguenots fleeing after 1685
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:31:48 +0000


Vital records - birth, death, marriage were kept by churches, not by the French
government. The Edict or Revocation in 1685 specified that all non-catholic
churches were to be burned. Not all of them were, and some of the records were
carried along by fleeing refugees. Some are now housed at a library in Paris.
Some are kept by the Huguenot Society of London in their library. (my attempts
to communicate with those people have yeilded nothing, but I have read some of
their publications at the University of Washington main library in Seattle) I
believe there are other depositories but I don't know what or where they are.

Marv Chastain

Katherine Ricker wrote:

> I agree with you. However, there are those of us in the U.S. who only know
> the name, not the European country of origin. There may be lore in the
> family that the ancestor(s) in question was/were Huguenot. I put a name out
> on the list (Oakman/Ochman) in hopes that someone had run across it and
> could direct me. All I got in response were questions about the European
> country of origin. I have no idea. I am trying to acertain that.
>
> What do you suggest in cases such as this?
>
> Thanking you!
>
> Katherine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roy Day" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Records of Huguenots fleeing after 1685
>
> > One or two people have posed a question regarding the where abouts of
> > Protestant records.
> >
> > There is a first class book published by the Archives Nationale in Paris
> > that sets out in some 700 pages the location of such records. It is
> > entitled Les Familles Protestantes en France and covers the period from
> the
> > 16th century to 1792. It is described as a "guide des reserches
> > biographiques et genealgiques".
> >
> > What always puzzle me about a lot of these so called Huguenot enquiries is
> > how it has been ascertained that the ancestors in question are in fact
> > Protestants. Without finding records in their country of origin
> indicating
> > their place of worship it is, in my view, impossible.
> >
> > The problem is this list has lost its direction and should be concerning
> > itself only with researching ancestors in the their countries of origin.
> > Once they have left that country research should be continued elsewhere.
> >
> > Roy Day
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