Help please! I know where my grandmother was born...?

try a different site

Try every surname that you can think of. Also look at other sites. If she had any siblings look for those as well, sometimes people just were not listed. Also remember that France has gone through 2 World Wars in the last century and records may have been destroyed. It is unfortunate, but it happens.

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I don't mean to be presumptuous - but is it possible for you to actually GO there?

When my mother was researching her family history for the Daughters of the American Revolution - before the Internet - she drove from Buffalo to Philadelphia and back and stopped in many little towns to obtain actual paper records from little Town halls.

Our entire family has benefited from her efforts.

The comment regarding the Wars is VERY important. Not only was paperwork destroyed - people were destroyed. If you go there you may be able to meet someone who actually knew your grandmother's family and can help you. My mother found an entire Town named for her family we never knew about before. We now have reunions every 5 years or so. It's kind of cool.

Good luck!!

Sometimes small towns don't have their oldest records online especially in remote areas. Your best chance (if you can't visit the town yourself) is to write to the Hall of Records for said town and provide as much information as possible. You may have to pay for the research or copies of the paperwork. Either way if you don't speak French be prepared to buy a English/French dictionary.

Is there a possibility she was born in a different town? I recently researched a friend's family tree, and found her grandmother was born in a completely different place to where she (my friend) thought she was born, as she only lived there as a baby, and grew up in a different town. Just a thought.

the spelling might be different too. My great great great grandparents came here and used different spellings depending on the language of the area where they were living. They were from Holland, but spoke german, dutch, and french. Their name was Bloom, but was also spelled Bloem and Blum or Blume.

Are you searching under her birth name, not her married name? Some people make that mistake.

I'm not sure which site you're using, but if it's not working, try this one: http://etat-civil.geneanet.org/