An old photo taken out of a box, an anecdote gleaned from a family dinner, or our child’s teacher who asks him to do his family tree… We all have a good reason to be interested in genealogy.
Genealogy is indeed the 3rd favorite pastime of the French, after DIY and gardening. But if 7 out of 10 people are interested, 4 of them have not yet embarked on their research.
Where to start ? How to do it ? Are genealogy sites reliable? And what can genealogy bring us?
Geraldine Mayr receives the historian and genealogist Marie Odile Mergnac. She has published numerous genealogy books, including a reference manual, Genealogy. Build up your tree on the Internet and in archives, participated in numerous reviews and publications. She manages the collections of the Archives and Cultures editions.
Sites, administrations to contact, advice, tips : Marie-Odile Mergnac gives us a real instruction manual to start her genealogy, which she compares to “a giant “crossword””.
It defines genealogical research as follows: “As soon as we have found two boxes, that is to say two parents in the branches of our tree, we have new boxes to fill. As soon as we have almost everything filled in, we want to know the life of these ancestors. And there, you become sort of biographers, novelists of your own family adventure and it’s very amusing. »
So, it’s up to us now?