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The year 2018 was a busy one for the Drouin team, with the addition of more than a million images and files to Genealogy Quebec as well as the publication of numerous blog posts related to Quebec genealogy. Here is a retrospective of the last year.
Additions to GenealogyQuebec.com and PRDH-IGD.com’s tools and collections in 2018
PRDH-IGD.com
A massive update was applied to PRDH-IGD.com, which doubled the total amount of individuals in the database.
More information on PRDH-IGD.com
LAFRANCE
The development of the LAFRANCE continued in 2018 with the addition of tens of thousands of Catholic baptisms and burials from the 1850s, as well as all Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec in 1917.
76 443 baptisms added
28 516 burials added
15 482 marriages added
More information on the LAFRANCE
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City directories
We started 2018 with the addition of a new collection, the City directories tool. This tool contains the Marcotte directory of the city of Quebec, and Lovell directory of the city of Montreal from the 1840s to the beginning of the 20th century.
More information on the City directories tool
Browse the City directories tool (subscription required)
Acadia – Families
This tool contains family files based on the original parish records of Acadia and covers from 1621 to 1849. In 2018, the amount of files and individuals contained in the database doubled.
More information on the Acadia – Families tool
Browse the Acadia – Families tool (subscription required)
Kardex
34 775 baptism, marriage and burial files were added to the Kardex tool this year. The Kardex is a directory of files that mostly pertain to Catholic and Protestant marriages as well as notarized contracts. The files cover from 1621 to 1950 for Quebec, Ontario and a small part of the United States.
More information on the Kardex tool
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Internet obituaries – Free section
The Internet obituary section is updated weekly. In 2018, nearly 200 000 obituaries were added to the collection.
More information on the Internet obituary section
Browse the Internet obituary section (free)
Postcards
This collection of 256 000 postcards initially only contained the image of the back of the cards. The update applied in 2018 allowed us to add the front of the cards, doubling the number of images in the collection.
More information on the Postcards section
Browse the Postcards section (subscription required)
Newspaper obituaries
60 000 obituaries were added to the Newspaper obituaries section in 2018.
This tool contains 664 000 death notices published in Quebec newspapers between 1945 and 2015. In addition, a search engine was added to the tool in order to make it more user-friendly.
More information on the Newspaper obituaries
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Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous collections
Jetté dictionary
2852 files produced by René Jetté during the creation of his famous “Dictionnaire Jetté” were added in file 19 – Dictionnaire Jetté.
Genealogical charts
2358 genealogical charts from the Planète Généalogie website were added in the file 24 – Lignées généalogiques.
Statutes of the Province of Quebec
Addition of various legal documents related to, among other things, adoptions, estates and name changes. Can be found in the file 25 – Statuts de la province de Québec.
Municipal archives
Addition of 17 948 images from books and minutes from the cities of Victoriaville, St-Paul-de-Chester and St-Louis-de-Blandford. Can be found in the file 16 – Archives municipales.
More information on the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous collections
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Blog articles published in 2018
Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD: the similarities, differences, and why you should subscribe to both
Books on Family Genealogy in Québec : 3 Essentials to Discover
Genealogy Outside of Québec : How to Find Your Québécois Ancestors
The 1621-1967 Drouin Collection : Differentiating Religious and Civil Genealogy
Quebec Marriage Records Search : Key to Tracing Your Genealogy
2019
Our primary goal in 2019 is to continue and accelerate the development of our genealogical collections, but also to facilitate their use and make the GenealogyQuebec.com experience a more seamless one. It promises to be a very busy year!
Stay tuned…
Genealogically yours,
The Drouin team
