looking for my american grand father.

[leonidas]

I know some might poke fun on me, but the fact is, my father and I never know who was my grand father. My father was born in 1946, in a village named Presles situated 30 kilometers from paris. My grand mother just died. Just before, she gave us a name "John Davis" an american soldier. Now I know why I was good at languages at school :) . That's all we know.
I assume this is quite a common nanme & to be franck, I don't know where to star my research.

[Guillaume]

Local history society to know what units were stationned at or near Presles.
Then there should be some sort of US military archive you could access...

[Virtualbody1234]

You're going to need more than just the name John Davis.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=John+Davis&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

[Guillaume]

Au fait, désolé d'apprendre le décés de ta grand-mère. :(

[leonidas]

elle a eu une vie bien remplie ne t'inquiete pas. actually that's a good idea I'll have a look to the local archives

[vidcc]

a research site (http://www.genealogy.com/index_n.html)

another (http://www.rootsweb.com/)