«We are all» theatrical conference in which a man tells his relationship to genealogical research,
Show «We are all» donated by the Association Compagnie "J'ai!". This show is a kind of theatrical conference in which a man tells his relationship to archival and genealogical research, initiated at age 16 in 1986: strongly struck by the literal meaning of the slogan of his adolescence “First, second, third generation, we are all children of immigrants!” , he decides to go in search of his origins.
More than thirty years later, having completed, except for shortcomings, his ancestry over eleven generations, he certainly did not quite find what he thought he would find... but he met thousands of people, thousands of names, first names, villages, trades, etc., and especially discovered the ordinary and extraordinary life of Josephine Rannou, her unknown great-great-grandmother before, who will make him travel from Brittany to the present Hauts-de-Seine, between Châtillon and ...
The story is also punctuated by moments when he decides to transmit to the public what he learned while doing this research: the Sosa numbering, the history of civil status in this country from Villers-Cotterêts, the joys of deciphering,