For over a century-and-a-half, Archives Genealogiques Andriveau have continued their dedication to professional inheritance lineage research, and have developed extensive archives of birth, marriage, death, and electoral records.  Archives Genealogiques Andriveau, based in Paris with offices throughout France, constitute the largest private collection of public records information, with more than 200 million individual documents, most of which are impossible to find elsewhere (for example, the Andriveau office had already privately archived Paris public records information from originals that were destroyed by fire in 1871). This dedication is personified today by Jean-Marie Andriveau, fourth generation of professional genealogical researchers and present director of Archives Genealogiques Andriveau . Their offices are behind a massive carved wooden door on the rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris, in an 18th century building that has belonged to the family for more than a hundred years. At the end of a courtyard and behind another set of doors are the carefully archived documents that constitute the Andriveau private collection.