Genealogy Fair

The Cercle généalogique d'Alsace is organising a major genealogy festival with the participation of numerous associations.

On the conference programme:

Saturday:

• 2pm: The marriage of Louis XV and Marie Leczynska in Strasbourg on 15 August 1725, by Claude Muller
• 3pm: The Marx Brothers: Alsatians by origin? by Bertrand Rietsch
• 4pm: Genealogy in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia... and the Alsatians in all this? by Marie-Luce Choisy-Lauer
• 5pm: New sources from Filae, by Laurent Fordant

Sunday:

• 2pm: Four Michel brothers in the turmoil of 1914-1918, by Philippe Wiedenhof
• 3pm: Organising, preserving and presenting your genealogical data, by Laëtitia Brasseur and Héloïse Hervieux
• 4pm: The contribution of seals to genealogy, by Thomas Brunner
• 5pm: The Alsace campaign: between the liberation of France and the confrontation in Nazi Germany (November 1944-March 1945), by Geoffrey Koenig

Saturday and Sunday at 3pm: guided tour by Luc Adoneth of the Maison du Tourisme et du Patrimoine, a mansion dating from 1804, renovated and opened to the public in October 2025, housing the Tourist Office reception and a museum space.

Lunch by reservation (0033 3 67 07 03 70):

• Saturday: bouchée à la reine, tagliatelle, panna cotta with red berries
• Sunday: palette à la diable, potato salad, chocolate cake

Refreshments with drinks and pastries available throughout the day.