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Pondicherry

Presidency: Madras
Coordinates:	11.845116°N 79.875241°E
Altitude:	0 m (0 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Puducherry
State/Province:	Indian Union Territory of Puducherry
Country:	India
Transport links
Pondicherry Railway

Pondicherry was formerly a French colony founded by Francois Martin in 1674.

Jean-Claude Féray has compiled an excellent series of webpages on French genealogy in Pondicherry, which are now archived. The site is in French, but the lists of names will be comprehensible to non-French-speakers. Here are some of them:
This India List post says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France
"Pondicherry – A bit of France in India" by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk
Images of Pondicherry collected by Remi Duverttoutpondi.com

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 *[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2007-03/1172865924 This India List post] says that the Pondicherry archives are in the "Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer" (CAOM) in the city of Aix en Provence, France
 *[http://www.confluence.org.uk/2008/12/10/pondicherry-%E2%80%93-a-bit-of-france-in-india "Pondicherry – A bit of France in India"]  by Sunayana Panda confluence.org.uk
+*[http://www.toutpondi.com/en/portrait/remi_duvert.html Images of Pondicherry collected by Remi Duvert]toutpondi.com
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