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==French information sites==
* [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana] is more what could be an european librarieusing [[OCR]] and open source engine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene Lucene]. Hungary, Portugal and France are was curently active. Go Currently, seems to Histoire et Géographie -> Bibliographies et généalogiebe a real European project.
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ Gallica] is the French numerical librarie with open specifications ([http://gallica2.bnf.fr/ Gallica 2] is planned for end-2008). Sounds, pictures, text are free of charges. Like [http://www.europeana.eu/ Europeana], Gallica use [[OCR]] (optical character recognition) for search.
* [http://caom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/pl/ Archives d'outre-mer] is a repository with most documents related to olds colonies. Every country where French governement was present (all continent) are listed. You may find some maps, images, data for your genealogical search.