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!

However, 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?  

Rebroadcast of the program of March 17, 2022 - 

On the occasion of the

8th Grand Salon de la Généalogie 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 on the internet and in archives

(Archive 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 psychologist Ibrahima Giroux,

Parents, children, from here and elsewhere

 : how to build a civic conscience in our children? 

Download here

.

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

Musical programming:

Gèryé

- Christine Salem 

President

- Pat Kalla 

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