Meet our ancestors... "dress them up", recreate their way of life, their trade, the "little" history in the "big" by..:
Help with your genealogical research, mainly in Bordeaux and the Gironde, and advice open to all.
Exchanges and information thanks to two half-yearly newsletters since 1977.
Informal meetings during office hours and contacts by mail or Internet.
Opportunities for members outside Gironde (33) to help each other.
Monthly meetings and free conferences open to the general public.
Workshops:
Palaeography course: learn how to read ancient documents and texts such as deeds, contracts and wills.
Help with genealogical research: discover and apply various methods.
Computers & Genealogy: useful and necessary tools for processing and classifying documents, the use of computers for genealogy (very accessible).
"Grain à Moudre": work on the archives. Conscription and matricules, visa applications from Bordeaux, old fabrics, etc.
A newsletter, publications and members' work.
Useful databases for your research, available on this site.
Data gathered in the course of our research: surname database.
Visa applications submitted to the Bordeaux Prefecture around 1850: Visa database.
Protestant base.
Base of Bordeaux surgeons.
An extensive library.
South West Genealogy Centre
1, Place Bardineau
33000 Bordeaux
Tel.: 06 38 70 35 32
Mail : contact@cgso-bordeaux.org
Website : http://www.cgso-bordeaux.org/contact.htm
South West Genealogy Centre (France)
