7 billion neighbors

Know your ancestors

Audio 48:30

How to start your family tree?

How far can we hope to go back?

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By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Difficult to apprehend the notion of an exponential number of ancestors!

Yet knowing where we come from is a recurring question.

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Most of us are hardly able to go back beyond great-grandparents.

So why do genealogical research?

Can emotional shocks, such as the death of a loved one, trigger the desire to know more about their family history?

How to start your family tree?

How far can we hope to go back?  

On the occasion of the

8th great genealogy fair in Paris

, Town Hall of the 15th arrondissement from March 16 to 19, 2022 

With :

Marie-Odile Mergnac

, genealogist and historian author of

Photos and objects of yesterday's marriages

and 

Genealogy: making your tree online and in archives

(Archives and culture editions, 2020)

Evelyne Duret,

president of the association

Les Jeunes et la Généalogie 

Jean-Luc Magré

, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brazzaville Congo Mission 

And at the end of the program the chronicle of the psychologist Ibrahima Giroux,

Parents, children, from here and elsewhere

: How to build a civic conscience in our children? 

To download here 

A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist, in Dakar, Senegal   

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