I’m on a street in Reims, northern France. Capital of the champagne region. And the city where the banns were read in May 1888 for the forthcoming marriage of Catherine Mary Riboldi and Marie Paul André Ruinart de Brimont.
And the name of the street? Rue Ruinart de Brimont – yep, seems Catherine’s fiancé’s family have a whole street named after them!
Of course, I’m not really here (though it’s on my growing list of places to visit…). But the golden Google Street View man is here, and he’s the next best thing. Street View is just one of the resources that didn’t exist years back when my cousin first began looking for our 2x great-aunt Catherine, and now I can’t imagine family history research without it.
Flying the little
