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The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux (1793-1797) Pt, VIII

This is in regard to my father’s Franco-Swiss ancestors based on details extracted from the Montecheroux BMD records. The Chronicles of Montécheroux (1793–1797) Pt. VIII (see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montécheroux during … Continue reading The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux (1793-1797) Pt, VIII

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The Chronicles of Montécheroux (1799-1802) Pt. VII

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montécheroux during the Napoleonic Era (1799-1802). The second part provides a detailed analysis of both the form and content of the records extracted from images of the … Continue reading The Chronicles of Montécheroux (1799-1802) Pt. VII

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The Chronicles of Montécheroux 1799-1801 Pt, VI

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montécheroux during the Napoleonic Era (1799-1801). The second part provides a detailed analysis of both the form and content of the records extracted from images of the … Continue reading The Chronicles of Montécheroux 1799-1801 Pt, VI

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The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux (1797-1799) – Pt. V

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montecheroux during the start of the Napoleonic Era. The second part provides a detailed analysis of both the form and content of the records extracted from images … Continue reading The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux (1797-1799) – Pt. V

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The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux – Pt. IV

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montecheroux during the early years of the Republique. The second part provides a detailed analysis of both the form and content of the records extracted from images of … Continue reading The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux – Pt. IV

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Part III: The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created Google Gemini) This post contains two parts. In the first part I present a novel-like view of the events in Montecheroux during the years of the Terror of the French Revolution. The second part provides a detailed analysis of both the form and content of the records extracted … Continue reading Part III: The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux

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Part II: The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) Chapter VII: The Cold Ash and the New Dawn The winter wind that blew across the high plateau of the Jura in February 1791 brought no mercy to the stone hearths of Montécheroux. Within the low-ceilinged farmhouse where the Voisards had worked the soil for … Continue reading Part II: The Continuing Chronicles of Montécheroux

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The Chronicles of Montécheroux (Pt. I: 1740–1789)

(see Using AI in Genealogy and Family History for a detailed description of how this was created with Google Gemini) Book I: The Elders and the Dual Altars (1740–1764) In the high, limestone foothills of the Jura Mountains, where the breezes from the Swiss border stirred the pine forests of Franche-Comté, the village of Montécheroux lived by the tolling of church bells and the scratch … Continue reading The Chronicles of Montécheroux (Pt. I: 1740–1789)

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Wooden infographic labeled Generation I (1920-1945), Generation II (1946-1969), Generation III (1970-1994), Generation IV (1995-2015), and Generation V (2016+), with milestone years 1928, 1934, 1941, 1948, 1955, 1962, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1999, 2006, 2017, and 2024.
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Using AI in Genealogy and Family History

I have access to a set of records that focus on a specific branch of my father’s family tree – our Franco-Swiss ancestors. These are the Montécheroux BMD records, which cover a period of 50 years from 1740 to the very eve of the French Revolution in 1789/90. In addition there are other sets of these records, one that covers a period from 1791 to … Continue reading Using AI in Genealogy and Family History

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Swiss Peasant Uprisings of the 1730s

Digging deeper on Montecheroux BMD records (1740-1790), I noted that there was a sudden increase in the Lutheran Swiss population of Montecheroux between 1740 and 1743. Then I remembered once reading that there was a peasant uprising in Western Switzerland in the late 1730s. I asked Gemini for background on the uprising and if there was any connection to the population changes in Montecheroux. Here … Continue reading Swiss Peasant Uprisings of the 1730s

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