I am trying to trace the parents and other family of Clotaire Poirier who was born 1 July 1903 in St Martin des Bois, Loir-et-Cher. Clotaire married Suzanne Levaye (daughter of Ernest Levaye and Julie Lecomte)in Loir-et-Cher but area is unknown. Clotaire died on 2 Jan 1995 in Montoire, Loir-et-Cher.
Is there any one else out there researching this family or could assist me as I live in Australia and Loir-et-Cher records are not yet on line.
Thank you.

If you know the date of birth and the commune & it's over 100 years ago (which it is) you simply contact the dep. archives http://www.cg41.fr/jahia/cg41/Accueil/cadre_de_vie/archives-... and use their email button (courriel) and ask them to furnish you with a copy of the birth registration. They will send you a one page "acte de naissance" which will be a narrative account of the registration, give you the parents names and ages (probably when they married) and witnesses, addresses etc. From there you can probably start to step backwards. It might also have the marriage details written in the margin. If it hasn't, then you are likely to be stuck for his marriage as the commune is unknown and the date is likely to be 1920s/1930s and the records possibly still closed.

If you get the acte de naissance and you can't read it/understand it, contact me and I will look at it for you.

HTH
Good Luck
Sherry (23170 Viersat)

Thank you so much Sherry, I will send them an email now.