The documents that can be consulted in the Parisian and departmental archives are innumerable; by way of example, we mention below some of those that we regularly consult for the 19th and 20th centuries :
- Civil status records (births, marriages, deaths)
- Population censuses (by district, neighbourhood, street)
- Electoral lists (nominative)
- Notarial acts (successions, inventories after death)
- Military recruitment (matriculation registers)
- Career records of civil servants (police officers, judges, etc.)
- Naturalization files (by decree or marriage)
- Court proceedings (correctional and criminal files)
- Judgements (civil and criminal)
- Prison records (incarceration in prison)
- Criminal investigations (judicial police)
- Police reports (general information, judicial identity service, etc.)
- Company deeds (Paris Commercial Court)
- Press (newspapers)
- etc.
