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What if you went looking for your ancestors? To help you in this quest, the Côtes-d'Armor Genealogical Center offers a free discovery day of the genealogy December 7 at Tréveneucmunicipality of the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor).

Volunteers to help you

At the initiative of André Orhan from the Côtes-d'Armor Genealogical Center, and in partnership with Jean-Pierre Baudoin, from the Tréveneuc History Workshop, this meeting will allow the public to discover the dedicated IT toolto carry out his first research and to be introduced to genealogy.

Volunteers will also be present for demonstrations and to assist those who wish. People who are already members are also invited to participate to improve their skills or obtain help.

11 million documents accessible

The Côtes-d'Armor Genealogical Center Association is based in Saint-Brieuc.

It offers an efficient and free tool to its members (€20 per year) which allows them to consult 11 million acts indexed, covering Côtes-d'Armor since the existence of parish registers (the year 1524 for Lanloup). The association works with several volunteers who index the civil status documents provided by the departmental archives.

And search engine allows members to easily find records (birth, marriage, death) by providing the surname, the year of the record and its location.

A direct link to the departmental archives is also available for those who wish to consult the original act.

Membership of the Côtes-d'Armor Genealogical Center thus gives access to the data of around a hundred million records indexed by other associations on a national scale (around 80 departments).

Thematic research

Alongside Genealogy, the tool offers a fiftyaine d’applicationsallowing research on various themes (sailors from Le Havre, medalists from Saint Helena, fighters from 14-18, migrants to Jersey, 1906 census, etc.).

Emphasis was placed on the 1906 census, which recorded women under their surname at birth, to allow the researcher to reconstruct families and analyze the composition of municipalities.

The association also offers training for new members (the next one will take place at the Departmental Archives on December 12) and individual training, by appointment at the Saint-Brieuc premises.

She currently counts 2,200 members and will celebrate 40 years in 2026.

Jean-Luc Thiévent, local press correspondent

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