Has anyone used this site?

[HarrysMum]

I'm trawling around and found this refence to Francois Giacobbi.

I think the 1848 marriage is the one to Agatha Ariel, but I'd like to see the others as well.
The site wants my email address and I'm a bit edgy.

It's Genealogie.com

http://www.genealogie.com/v2/genealogie-service-al/recherche.asp?id_publication=&id_document=&nom=GIACOBBI&prenom=&Annee_Debut=&Annee_Fin=&Type_Acte=&Commune=&Nb_donnees=&departement=&tri=3&index_page=2&nbpages=5&taille_page=30

Any thoughts whether it's OK??

[JayG]

I've never done any French research but it looks ok to me.

I'd wouldn't be bother about having to register, i'd be more bother about it wanting my card details!

I've had a clance of Cyndis List & can't see it, but that says nothing.

http://www.cyndislist.com/france.htm

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Jay..


Oooooh just remembered your email.....I'll get back to you later today.

[JayG]

No probs Liddy.

I don't mind registering on that site if you're still 'edgy' tho I can't read French lol

[HarrysMum]

Neither can I???? lol

I'll have a look around and see if I can find anything. It looks OK, actually looks like a gov site, but how would I know??????? lol

[JayG]

Having managed to translate some of the info to english via google it doesn't look like a gov site, more like Ancestry & the like I think.

[JayG]

Ooh i've just stumbled on their forum which has a similar layout to ours.

Lots of posts off today.

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.genealogie.com/&ei=4Ia4TZ7QLNG5hAfT7rGJDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgenealogie.com%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff %26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLL_en%26prmd%3Divns

I wouldn't have a problem registering on the site if I come across it for my own research.

[Janet]

Libby, I played around with it. It doesn't scare me particularly; no hairs rising up on the back of my neck. It got a green light from my Norton Internet Security when I dropped some of its links into a Google search bar.

I then followed some of their links and found nothing there that scared me either. Yes, some of it is governmental, at least when you follow links to other web sites. Some of it looks potentially useful. It does have a forum similar to what we're familiar with here.

But I think there the similarity ends. I went ahead and gave them my name and email address to register. They also wanted my birthday/month/year. After I coughed up all that, then I was presented with a screen that you don't need to understand French to recognize. My choices were one month, three months, or six months unlimited for 8.10, 11.70 or 17.99 Euros.

I never did any family history research in French so I don't have that particular vocabulary, but I am generally fluent so just let me know if you think I can be of any help. Google translations are getting better, but they do produce some real screamers sometimes. :rolleyes:

[Kit]

I was going to say the same as Janet, my norton didn't protest and there have been a few sites it refuses to let me into.

Go get it and tell us what it says about Agatha

[Janet]

Warning to all! If you register with this genealogie.com web site, pick a password that you don't mind them repeating back to you in your confirmation email. I would have preferred they didn't do that, and had I known they were going to put it into cyberspace I would have chosen something different. It matches too many other sites. I'll have to live with it or else change them all. :mad:

[garstonite]

Libby , have you tried www.geneanet.org ?? ...I am a member on there - free to join...this is a predominately French site but has more and more English speaking countries members joining.......allan
ADDED....287 trees for Giacobbi on geneanet.org

[Merry]

I think the 1848 marriage is the one to Agatha Ariel

It surely must be, as her name comes up too if you search for it.

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Allan...I'll try that.

Merry....I know the 1848 one is Agatha, but there was another for the 1850s for a Francois and I wondered if it was the same fellow.

It would be nice to see if Agatha had any more children as well. She was only 26 when she married Francois.

[Mary from Italy]

I've used the forum on that site before with no problems, but never paid for the databases.

The Reconstructed Civil Registration database for Paris (Etat-civil Reconstitué de Paris 1798-1860) is online free here, as I mentioned in an earlier thread, so there's no point paying to see it, but I couldn't find Agatha's death there when I searched last time:

http://canadp-archivesenligne.paris.fr/archives_etat_civil/index.php

http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5197

The other databases where François' name appears aren't online as far as I know.