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Where are French Citizenship Records Kept in France?

  • 31-03-2021 9:05pm
    #1
    Jim Clerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    It's not Irish citizenship but if anybody knows which agency in France keeps records of French Citizenship, please let me know.

    I've enquired with a couple of French friends but due to the labyrinthine nature of Gallic bureaucracy, they don't know. I need to establish if my late grandmother was also French.

    Merci


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  • #2
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,806 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Jim Clerk wrote: »
    which agency in France keeps records of French Citizenship, please let me know.

    What make you think they have a specific agency for such a purpose?
    Jim Clerk wrote: »
    I need to establish if my late grandmother was also French.

    Do you have her birth cert, or any simular type documentation on her ?

    I thought France only allow go back one generation to claim citizenship ?


  • #3
    GM228
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Records are not help nationally, but in each municipalities Civil Status Office (which is attached to the Mayors office as he/she is the civil Registrar).


  • #4
    Jim Clerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Jim Clerk


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    What make you think they have a specific agency for such a purpose?

    Hi thank you for replying. My grandmother was a refugee in 1919 living in France. I was wondering if there were archives listing French citizens through naturalisation. Pehaps there isn't such thing.


    Do you have her birth cert, or any simular type documentation on her ?

    I'm not sure about the birth cert yet but I think so.

    I thought France only allow go back one generation to claim citizenship ?

    I believe it's possible if my mother does this first, even after we were born.


  • #5
    Jim Clerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Jim Clerk


    Thank you so much, very helpful. So she was in Paris and Nice, I will check there.
    GM228 wrote: »
    Records are not help nationally, but in each municipalities Civil Status Office (which is attached to the Mayors office as he/she is the civil Registrar).


  • #6
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Jim Clerk wrote: »
    Thank you so much, very helpful. So she was in Paris and Nice, I will check there.

    Was she married in Ireland? I think the marriage cert will provide a specific location for birth while will narrow your search.


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  • #7
    Jim Clerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭Jim Clerk


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Was she married in Ireland? I think the marriage cert will provide a specific location for birth while will narrow your search.

    She married in the UK. I managed find her marriage record and says her birth place. Thanks so much for your help. 😊


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