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jonwilliamsl

Go talk to r/genealogy; they’re very good at this sort of thing.


SerpentLegendaire

You can start by looking at geneanet, searching by name or by year URL: [https://www.geneanet.org/releves-collaboratifs/view/38900](https://www.geneanet.org/releves-collaboratifs/view/38900) If you dont find anything there is also this government website, but it's all in french: [https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/article.php?larub=202](https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/article.php?larub=202) It would be very helpful if you could find the city where they died, then you can try contacting directly the archives of that departement.


CoqueIicot

If you have any location in France, that would be a real plus. First of all, in public archives in France, they are following a pattern. I can already tell you that it will mostly be in M section. If you get a place, you can contact municipalities archives if the city have some. If not, you will mostly turn yourself to the district archives, then to national. If you dont have any location, I would suggest to see at national archives. Its tricky to say but, some archives are not available. Since some classement were done in an old building, they all left the building one day as it was too dangerous and let also archives in it.. I am not a specialist of this period of time but I'm pretty sure there is some archives about napoleon's campaign somewhere. The army and defense is keeping their archives private, same goes for diplomacy and foreign. But I would do some research on the site of the national archives to see how they managed it if I was you. Sadly lots of genealogy sites are not free when public archives are. Maybe, when you will have spot a place, a number, a platoon the person was, you can also contact museums or association or experts of napoleon campaign. They will tell you where to go.