This is a 'how to' genealogical research guide to tracing French Huguenot ancestry from the Australian viewpoint. It cites detailed sources in both French and English records and described the research process on a 'blow by blow' basis, using a real case study.
The Huguenots were French Protestants persecuted by Catholic Kings of France from around 1520 until the French Revolution of 1789. Their leader was Martin Luther (1483-1546) the first Protestant. Many hundreds of thousands of Huguenots fled from France to countries such as the British Isles, Netherlands, South Africa and America in fear of their lives. Most fled to England in the 1680s-1690s. An estimated 300,000 Australians today are of Huguenot descent.
Any researcher into Huguenot families will learn much from this publication, and to date no comprehensive guide to Huguenot sources (which encompasses the internet as well), has yet been published in the English language. This is a good start in that direction and incorporated a comprehensive bibliography of more than 40 pages, believed to be the largest on the subject published to date. This publication also discusses Huguenot surnames.
Readable in PDF format, with two supplementary files in Word, the pages of the primary file are laid out as if in a book, complete with me hundreds of photographs.
