“We had France for our playground, we now have the world. In the 1960s, we were looking for natural children, now 57% of births are outside marriage. Divorce, once so shameful, has imposed itself, because today we love each other and we leave each other forever, we hardly quarrel. "
Guillaume Roehrig, at the head of Coutot-Roehrig, the most important French genealogist firm, created in 1830 and now with 300 employees, thus sums up what gives the future to this old profession.
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Year in and year out, around a hundred offices, of all sizes, mandated by notaries, town halls, social landlords or insurance companies, process 16,000 cases and find 150,000 heirs, who will be restored to their rights or will prevent that assets do not fall into the pocket of the State because of escheat.
A titanic work which sometimes continues for a decade, because, at a time of the disintegration of the family, the penal code and the civil code are
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