A family history of France
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How Do You Tease Out Details of the Life of Ordinary People?
For the most part, you are dealing with the lives of ordinary people. And what sources can you find? How do you tease out details of their life from the historical record? Well that's what's been for me, so much fun, really, about this project. The most obvious and ordinary records, which are basically records of births, marriages and deaths, or christenings and burials in in the eighteenth century,. turn out to be extraordinary sources.
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