Audrey Pepin, auteur/autrice sur Généalogie et histoire du Québec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/author/audrey-pepin/ Le blog de l'institut Drouin Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:37:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-cropped-IGD-large-1-32x32.png Audrey Pepin, auteur/autrice sur Généalogie et histoire du Québec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/author/audrey-pepin/ 32 32 Genealogy and LGBTQ+ families https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2024/01/09/genealogy-and-lgbtq-families/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:46:37 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=4688/ Increasingly, we hear about family models that diverge from heterosexual and cisgender1 norms. The rights of LGBTQ+ individuals to form a family (and to access various methods allowing them to have children) are indeed recent, and the political events of the last few months demonstrate that these rights are still precarious. Certain groups, often associated …

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]]> “It’s too long”: a look at the double surname in Quebec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2023/07/26/a-look-at-the-double-surname-in-quebec/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:25:11 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=4551/ When one is interested in one’s ancestry and reconstructs a lineage through genealogical research, one also sees the history of the transmission of family name(s). This may seem insignificant to us, because for a long time this history was obvious: the question of the transmission of the family name did not really arise, since the …

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]]> Quebec Women Farmers’ Circles and their relationship with feminism https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2023/03/10/quebec-women-farmers-circles-and-their-relationship-with-feminism/ Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:42:03 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=4403/ A couple of weeks ago, as I was going through Genealogy Quebec’s databases, I found a folder in the Raymond-Gingras fund named ”Cercle de Fermières” (Women Farmers’ Circle). Inside, I found a series of photographs of a short text produced by a Women Farmers’ Circle, which tells the story of Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, a small municipality located …

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]]> Demystifying women’s history in Quebec https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2022/12/06/demystifying-womens-history-in-quebec/ Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:07:31 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=4029/ In my last article, Genealogy and women’s history, I talked about the ways in which genealogy can shed light on women’s history, whether by highlighting certain oppressions (injunctions to marriage or maternity, or even slavery for example), or their numerous contributions to society, whether in the family or as nuns, midwives or seamstresses. To be …

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]]> Genealogy and women’s history https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2022/02/22/genealogy-and-womens-history/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:49:10 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=3210/ (This article is a follow-up to Genealogy and care work) As genealogists, we have access to little windows into the past. Our familial histories, the lives of our ancestors, all fit into the much larger context of the society in which they lived. If we pay enough attention, we can see traces of that in …

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]]> Genealogy and care work https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/11/17/genealogy-and-care-work/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2906/ In my first article series on this blog ”The omission of women in family trees”1, I talked about the place of women in genealogy, exploring the reasons and the consequences of their exclusion from most research. For this new series, I wanted to reverse the perspective and talk about how women practice genealogy. Why do …

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]]> Women in Quebec’s toponymy https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/07/30/women-toponymy-quebec/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:19:23 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2701/ In genealogical research, locations often play a very important role : they can help us confirm a person’s identity or guide our research when looking for an ancestor. Even if their role is not central to our investigation, from the moment we consult modern sources such as civil records or a nominative census, we will …

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]]> The omission of women in family trees – Part 3 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/05/11/the-omission-of-women-in-family-trees-part-3/ Tue, 11 May 2021 17:14:06 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2355/ (This is a 3 part article. Click to read: Part 1, Part 2) In my previous article, I detailed the consequences of the erasure of women in familial histories. Fortunately, although the patriarchal bases of this erasure are well rooted in our society, they can be rethought and subverted. Now that we know this problem …

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]]> The omission of women in family trees – Part 2 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2021/03/03/the-omission-of-women-in-family-trees-part-2/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:14:04 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=2058/ (This is a 3 part article. Click to read: Part 1, Part 3) In my previous article, I demonstrated that women are often forgotten in genealogical research: patrilineal lineages are prevalent (Jetté, 1991: 110 ; Drouin, 2015) and women’s presence is often  made invisible through the vocabulary used (Cousteau Serdongs, 2008 : 133). This problem …

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]]> The omission of women in family trees – Part 1 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/en/2020/12/30/the-omission-of-women-in-family-trees-part-1/ Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:30:23 +0000 https://www.genealogiequebec.com/blog/?p=1921/ (This is a 3 part article. Click to read: Part 2, Part 3) When starting this articles project about feminism and genealogy, I first asked myself what I could have to say about it. I had developed a certain expertise in feminist theory through my studies and activism, but I only knew genealogy from afar. …

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