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This post is part of a series about genealogy in France. You can read the complete series HERE.

• Memoire des Hommes – Military Enlistments of the old Regime of France 1682-1793 is a significant depository of records in browse mode only, of:
  • Enlistment Records
  • Different branches of the army, such as artillery, Calvary etc
  • Different units, towns and battlefields
  • Early records are in the name of the old Provinces, towns etc, for example Anjou
  • Includes records relating to Belgians.
• Memoire des Hommes – Napoleonic War 1802-1815 enlistments, in a searchable database. This also incorporates what we now know as Belgium. – with images
• Ancestramil – A useful site with details of the structure of Military forces of France
• Collaborative Military Archives (Geneanet) – Napoleonic War 1802-1815 – no images
• France GenWeb 1914-1918
• France Memorial GenWeb – Soldiers and Resistance fighters who died, including civilians AND foreign soldiers that died in France
• Military Registration Records for French citizens in the Overseas Territories
  • French West Africa (1888-1917)
  • Algeria (1866-1921)
  • French Coast of the Somalis (1910-1917)
  • Comoros (1895-1918)
  • Guyana (1890-1914)
  • India and Indochina (1897-1909)
  • Madagascar (1889-1918) –  Some later registers are kept in the Archives of Paris.
  • New Caledonia (1907-1918)
  • Polynesia (1894-1919)
  • Reunion (1884-1918)
  • Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (1901-1921) – The later registers are kept in the Archives of Paris.