After studying at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, Pierre-Val\u00e9ry Archassal chose to focus on social history, new technologies, and communication. As an auditor of Professor Jacques Dup\u00e2quier’s seminars at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, he became familiar with historical demography, which complements his personal work that began at the age of 14.<\/p>\n
Since 1981, Pierre-Val\u00e9ry Archassal has been regularly consulted by national radio and television channels (France Inter, RTL, Europe 1, RMC Info, TF1, France 2, France 3, LCI, Direct 8,\u2026) on general genealogical questions or more specific topics such as the transmission of surnames or the contribution of the Internet to family research.<\/p>\n
In the fall of 2008, he presented on the channel Arte, \u201cSur les traces du pass\u00e9\u201d and, since November 2009, has collaborated on France 2 with \u201cRetour aux sources,\u201d the French adaptation of the successful Anglo-Saxon show \u201cWho do you think you are?\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pierre-Val\u00e9ry Archassal joined \u201cG\u00e9n\u00e9alogie-magazine\u201d at the age of 19, where he traced each month the \u201cTrue Story of the French.\u201d He was then called to the editorial team of the \u201cRevue fran\u00e7aise de g\u00e9n\u00e9alogie et d’histoire des familles\u201d to design the first articles dedicated to \u201cInternet & Genealogy\u201d in 1998. This section has now become a 10-page supplement titled \u201cCyberg\u00e9n\u00e9alogie,\u201d for which he still holds responsibility.<\/p>\n
Over the past twenty years, he has also been a guest of newspapers such as Le Monde, Lib\u00e9ration, Le Figaro Magazine, Marianne, and many other weekly publications. In 2000, Pierre-Val\u00e9ry Archassal published the first book dedicated to genealogical research on the Internet. He is also the author of several public guides and, in 2006, a groundbreaking work on genealogical biography (\u201cGenealogy, a Modern Passion\u201d \u2013 ourin \u00c9diteur). In this book, he describes how individual history is more extraordinary than official history and why this modern passion has become one of the favorite pastimes of the French.<\/p>\n
In 2003, Pierre-Val\u00e9ry Archassal chaired the scientific committee of the XVII National Congress of Genealogy in Limoges, where he presented, along with Jo\u00ebl Surcouf, director of the Departmental Archives of Mayenne, the first demonstration of online consultation of digitized archives.<\/p>\n
Elected as a full member of the International Academy of Genealogy in 2004, a founding member of the European Federation of Genealogy, and director of the European Observatory of Genealogy, he regularly gives lectures on topics close to his heart, particularly the vices and virtues of new technologies in genealogy or the initiation to research for beginners.<\/p>\n
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