Genealogy in French-Speaking Switzerland

It took 30 years to find the clue that led to the origins of my Swiss immigrant ancestor, Jean Pierre Samuel MARCEL of Lausanne. After about 6 years of research, I now have data on dozens of Swiss and French families. I have assembled information here on methods and sources for research in the French-speaking areas of Switzerland, along with some of the results of my investigations.

Using Family Tree Maker, I compiled an "online book" that summarizes many of the basic methods and sources, with detailed reports of my ancestral families: Genealogy in French-Speaking Switzerland: Families, Methods, and Sources

Items perpetually under construction:

Genealogical Dictionary of the villages of Ballens, Mollens, and Bière (Vaud, Switzerland), circa 1567 - 1654, extracted from the original parish registers
See also the linked GED2HTML database with over 7,000 individuals from the districts of Aubonne and Morges: Morges-Aubonne Database

History of the Dutoit (DuToict) family of Moudon (Vaud, Switzerland); not only is the web page under construction, but the family itself is still being untangled. A partial inventory is available now. Dutoit (DuToict) Family of Moudon (Vaud, Switzerland)

Further, I now maintain a linked GED2HTML database containing nearly 4,000 individuals connected in some way to the Dutoit family of Moudon: Dutoit Database

The Gélieu Family and the French Reformation: A Chronology
A scrapbook of documents of my Huguenot families
A list of links I have found useful

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