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15,409 newspaper obituaries were added to Genealogy Quebec‘s obituary section this week. In addition to these new death notices, some 30,424 images from the Drouin Collection Records have been re-digitized to improve their readability.
Newspaper obituaries
15,409 obituaries, mainly from the Montreal and Quebec City regions, are now available in Genealogy Quebec’s Obituary section under the Newspaper obituaries category. Most of these death notices were published within the last 2 years.
The Newspaper obituaries section contains around 678,000 obituaries from various newspapers in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick. The notices date from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
You may browse the Obituary section with a Genealogy Quebec subscription at this address, and you will find more information about this section on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
Drouin Collection re-digitization
In addition to our frequent content updates, the Drouin Institute is actively working on improving the quality of the collections already available on Genealogy Quebec.
With this in mind, we are currently re-digitizing many Drouin Collection parishes that were poorly digitized in the past. Some 30,424 images have been re-digitized in this update.
Old image
Re-digitzed image from the Drouin Collection
Here is a list of the parishes that have been re-digitized:
| Montréal-Sud (St-Georges) | Montréal (St-Georges) | Montréal (Ste-Clotilde) |
| Montréal (St-Dominic) | Montréal (St-Étienne) | St-Michel (St-Bernardin-de-Sienne) |
| Longueuil (co-cathédrale St-Antoine-de-Pade) | LeMoyne (St-Josaphat) | Montréal (St-Jean-Baptiste-de-la-Salle) |
| Montréal (Très-St-Rédempteur) | La Prairie (Notre-Dame-de-LaPrairie-de-la-Madeleine) | Montréal (St-Henri) |
| Caughnawaga (St-François-Xavier-du-Sault-St-Louis) | Montréal (St-Charles) | Montréal (Saint Anthony of Padua) |
| Montréal (Notre-Dame-des-Victoires) | Montréal (St-Thomas-Aquinas) | Outremont (Ste-Madeleine) |
| Montréal (La Nativité-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie) | Montréal (St-Irénée) | Montréal (St-Joseph-de-Bordeaux) |
| Rivière-Beaudette | St-Grégoire (Nicolet) | St-Ignace-du-Lac |
| St-Joseph-de-Mékinac | Hull (cathédrale Très-St-Rédempteur) | Aylmer (St-Paul) |
| Buckingham | Deschênes | Fassett |
| Gatineau | Hull (Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes) | Hull (Servantes de Jésus-Marie) |
| Hull (Ste-Bernadette-Soubirous) | Lac-Ste-Marie | Papineauville |
| Pointe-Gatineau | Amos (Ste-Thérèse) | Campbell’s Bay |
| Fugèreville | Guérin | Guigues (St-Bruno) |
| Lac-Cayamant | Nédelec | Otter Lake (St-Charles-Borromée) |
| Taschereau | Lac-St-Paul | Montcerf |
| Notre-Dame-de-Laus | Ste-Famille-d’Aumond | Grande-Rivière |
| Grande-Vallée | Chandler (St-Coeur-de-Marie) |
The Drouin Collection Records contain all of the parish registers (baptisms, marriages, burials) available on Genealogy Quebec, which represents over 5 million images.
Sherbrooke parish register image from the Drouin Collection Record available on GenealogyQuebec.com.
This collection is home to all of Quebec’s parish registers from 1621 to the 1940s, as well as numerous parish registers from Ontario, New Brunswick, the United States and Acadia.
You may browse the Drouin Collection Records with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Genealogically yours,
The Drouin team
