It is now time to announce the 10 winners of the Drouin Institute contest launched on April 29th, 2020!
Congratulations to:
Jocelyne R.
Lyne G.
Luc C.
Jules Pierre L.
Gilles B.
Dan N.
Claudine P.
Jean-Guy B.
Liette N.
André D.
The winners were given the opportunity to choose between a yearly subscription to Genealogy Quebec, 1000PRDH-IGD hits and $200 credit on our online boutique.
A big thank you to our 4368 participants. In view of the enthusiasm generated by this contest, there is no doubt that we will repeat the experience. Keep an eye out!
60% off on the Drouin Institute online boutique until the end of May
If you weren’t one of our lucky 10 winners, we still want to give you an opportunity to save money. Enjoy 60% off all purchases on the Drouin Institute boutique with the code DROUIN2020! This offer is valid until June 1st, 2020.
To benefit from this promotion, simply enter the code DROUIN2020 on checkout.
The Drouin Institute online boutique includes all the books and CD-ROMs produced by the Drouin Institute, more than 4,000 items. It also offers directories and books from various historical and genealogical societies in Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
Again, thank you for your participation and your confidence.
The Drouin Institute is offering you the chance to win a yearly subscription to Genealogy Quebec, 1000PRDH-IGD hits, or $200 to spend on our online boutique. Participating is free, quick and easy!
How to participate
All you need to enter the contest is a Genealogy Quebec account to which you have logged in at least once between April 29th 2020 and May 13th 2020, 3:00 PM EST. You do NOT need to have an active subscription on the account to be eligible for the contest.
If you do not have an account on Genealogy Quebec, simply create one (no credit card required). This should take you no more than a minute.
If you already own a Genealogy Quebec account, you must log in to it at least once between April 29th 2020 and May 13th 2020, 3:00 PM EST to ensure your participation in the draw. That’s all!
10 winners will be drawn at random on May 13th 2020 at 3:00 PM EST.
Make sure the email address associated with your Genealogy Quebec account is valid! If you are drawn as a winner, you will be contacted via that email address. You will then haveup to May 15th at 4:00 PM EST to claim your prize. If necessary, a second draw will take place on May 15th at 4:00 PM EST in order to allocate unclaimed prizes to new winners.
The prizes
Yearly subscription to Genealogy Quebec (Can$129 value)
An annual subscription to Genealogy Quebec gives you access to the entire website and all its tools and collections for a period of 365 days. Genealogy Quebec is a subscription-based research website regrouping all the collections and tools developed by the Drouin Institute over the course of its existence.
The website’s 15 tools and collections amount to over 46 million images and files covering all of Quebec as well as parts of the United States, Ontario and Acadia from 1621 to this day. Genealogy Quebec is by far the largest collection of Quebec genealogical and historical documents on the Web. You will find more information about the website in this blog article.
1000 PRDH-IGD hits (Can$79.99 value)
PRDH-IGD is a directory of ALL vital events (baptisms, marriages and burials) recorded by the Catholic church in Quebec and French Canada from 1621 to 1849, as well as a genealogical dictionary of families. The PRDH-IGD database contains over 2 500 000 records.
What makes PRDH-IGD unique is how these records are connected to one another through genealogical links, which we refer to as Family Reconstructions. In addition to baptism, marriage and burial files, the PRDH-IGD contains individual and family files.
Any individual mentioned in a BMD record from the database is attributed an individual file. Similarly, any married couple mentioned in a BMD record gets their own family file.
PRDH-IGD subscriptions work by using “hits”. These hits are valid for 23 months. A “hit” is used every time a record certificate, an individual file, a family file or a couple file is viewed. The original search that leads to the result list is free. You will find more information about the structure of the database at this address.
$200 to spend on our online boutique (Can$200 value)
The Drouin Institute online boutique includes all the books and CD-ROMs produced by the Drouin Institute, more than 4,000 items. It also offers directories and books from various historical and genealogical societies in Quebec, Ontario and the United States. You will be free to spend these $200 on any item(s) in the boutique.
Rules
To be eligible for the draw, you must own a Genealogy Quebec account that was either created or logged into between April 29th 2020 and May 13th 2020, 3:00 PM EST.
This contest ends on May 13th 2020, 3:00 PM EST, at which time the winners will be chosen at random.
The 10 winners will be contacted by email one hour after the draw (May 13th 2020, 4:00 PM EST), and will have until May 15th 2020, 4:00 PM EST to claim their prize. Once this date has passed, the unclaimed prizes will be the subject of a new draw, and can no longer be claimed by the original winners.
48 hours after the initial draw, if necessary, a new draw will be done to award the unclaimed prizes to new winners. They will also have 48 hours to claim their prize. This process will be repeated until the 10 winners have been selected and have received their prizes.
The 10 winners will be announced publicly on our Facebook page and via our newsletter once the 10 prizes have been distributed.
Are excluded from this contest: Any employee and representative of the Drouin Genealogical Institute and the people with whom they are domiciled. Any institutional account (library, society, museum, school, etc.).
Any litigation respecting the conduct or organization of a publicity contest may be submitted to the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux for a ruling. Any litigation respecting the awarding of a prize may be submitted to the board only for the purpose of helping the parties reach a settlement
It is prohibited to create multiple Genealogy Quebec accounts in order to increase your chances of winning the draw. Individuals creating more than one account for this purpose will be disqualified.
In order to select the 10 winners, a list will be produced from those eligible for the draw. Each individual in this list will be assigned a specific number (1, 2, 3, and so on). A random number generator will be used to generate a list of 10 numbers, and the individuals associated with these numbers will be the winners of the contest.
A paid subscription to Genealogy Quebec, either current or previously active, is NOT necessary to participate in this contest.
Although the restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pose new challenges, the activities of the Drouin Genealogical Institute continue through teleworking.
Our indexing and digitizing efforts have allowed us to reach a new milestone on Genealogy Quebec, with now over 46 million images and files available on the website. This is another important step in our efforts to preserve and share the genealogical heritage of Quebec and New France, which wouldn’t be possible without our subscribers. Thank you!
Additionally, the indexing of parish registers from Ontario and Acadia is well on its way, with some 5920 baptism, marriage and burial records added to the LAFRANCE this month.
Marriage record as presented on GenealogyQuebec.com’s LAFRANCE
Here is an overview of the additions made for each parish:
Parish name
Type of record
Date range
Number of records
Amherstburg (St-Jean)
b
1802
1861
3990
Amherstburg (St-Jean)
m
1825
1861
516
Amherstburg (St-Jean)
d
1803
1861
1374
Ile-Royale
b
1751
1757
3
Ile-Royale
m
1742
1742
1
Ile-Royale
d
1732
1744
8
Orléans
b
1861
1861
1
Ottawa (Notre-Dame)
b
1852
1852
1
Ottawa (St-Joseph)
b
1858
1861
3
Paincourt
b
1857
1859
8
Port-Royal
m
1707
1747
2
Williamstown
b
1855
1861
13
b = baptisms m = marriages d = deaths
These records can now be browsed in the LAFRANCE, which also contains ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918, ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861 as well as ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849. You will find more information about the LAFRANCE on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
To conclude, we would like to wish you and your family health, safety and courage in the context of the health crisis we are experiencing. We hope that genealogy may bring you some joy during this difficult period.
Six newspapers from the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu region have been added to the historical newspapers section available on Genealogy Quebec!
Écho d’Iberville (1880 to 1882 and 1919-1920)
La Voix du Peuple (1880)
L’Alliance (1893-1894)
L’Essor (1968 to 1970)
Le Protectionniste (1882-1883)
Le Courrier de St-Jean (1887 and 1896 to 1909)
You will find these 2891 new images in the Drouin Institute’s Miscallenaeous Collections, under the “23 – Journaux Anciens” folder. These six publications join the many newspapers already available in the section:
The indexing of Ontario and Acadia’s parish registers continues on Genealogy Quebec! Some 20,044 baptism, marriage and burial records were added to the LAFRANCE in early February.
Marriage record as presented on GenealogyQuebec.com’s LAFRANCE
Here is an overview of the additions made for each parish in this update:
Parish name
Type of record
Date range
Number of records
Baie-Ste-Marie
b
1780
1799
178
Baie-Ste-Marie
m
1781
1799
20
Baie-Ste-Marie
d
1799
1799
2
Beaubassin
b
1717
1748
747
Beaubassin
m
1712
1748
208
Beaubassin
d
1719
1749
28
Belle-Rivière
m
1858
1861
60
Belle-Rivière
d
1860
1861
32
Ecouipahaq
b
1767
1768
155
Ecouipahaq
m
1767
1768
28
Ecouipahaq
d
1767
1768
13
Ile-Royale
b
1714
1757
277
Ile-Royale
m
1717
1756
69
Ile-Royale
d
1726
1756
167
Louisbourg
b
1722
1759
2236
Louisbourg
m
1722
1759
572
Louisbourg
d
1722
1758
1222
Port-Royal
b
1702
1755
2509
Port-Royal
m
1702
1755
540
Port-Royal
d
1702
1754
421
St-Basile
b
1792
1862
6167
St-Basile
m
1792
1861
876
St-Basile
d
1792
1862
1640
St-Charles-les-Mines
b
1707
1748
1407
St-Charles-les-Mines
m
1709
1748
304
St-Charles-les-Mines
d
1709
1748
166
These records can now be browsed in the LAFRANCE, which also contains ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918, ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861 as well as ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849. You will find more information about the LAFRANCE on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
A significant update was applied to the Connolly File, one of 15 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers.
63 356 baptisms, 51 900 marriages and 32 418 burials were added through this update.
What is the Connolly File?
The Connolly File is an index of Catholic and Protestant baptisms, marriages and burials from Quebec and parts of the United States and Canada covering a period spanning from 1621 to 2019. It is developed and maintained by the Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est. The tool contains over 6 700 000 baptism, marriage and burial files.
2019 is drawing to a close, and it’s time to review what was a busy year for the Drouin genealogical Institute. Hundreds of thousands of new documents, many blog posts, not to mention a complete redesign of GenealogieQuebec.com and PRDH-IGD.com! Here is a detailed retrospective of the year.
Please note that you can consult the details of these numerous updates in this section of the Drouin Institute blog.
The LAFRANCE
2019 began in force, as we completed the addition of ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials the 1850-1861 period to the LAFRANCE. This project, which began in 2015, represented the addition of some 652 502 baptism and burial records from 422 different parishes.
At that point, the LAFRANCE contained:
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1917
ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
68 401 Quebec Catholic baptisms and burials from between 1862 and 2019
For a total of 3 755 659 parish records from Quebec.
Subsequently, all of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1918 were added, over 11 000 records.
Marriage record as presented in GenealogyQuebec’s LAFRANCE tool
But that’s not all! Some 33 138 records from Catholic parishes in Ontario and Acadia as well as Protestant parishes in Quebec were added to the LAFRANCE in 2019, and this is only just the beginning!
Some 30 000 memorial cards as well as 15 000 newspaper obituaries were added to the Obituary section in 2019.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of new obituaries are currently being scanned and are set to appear on Genealogy Quebec in 2020. These will join the 3.7 million obituaries, tombstones and memorial cards already available in the Obituary section.
Close to 180 000 baptism, marriage and burial files were added to the NBMDS tool in 2019. These records come from the Mauricie region as well as New England and Ontario. The tool now contains more than 1.3 million files.
Here are the new and redigitized images that were added to the Drouin Collection Records in the past year:
14 460 parish register images from the State of New York, under the Registres divers folder
1000 images from the Consulat général de France à Montréal et Québec, under the Registres divers folder
New York State registers from the 1890 American census, under the Registres divers folder
St-André parish (1945-1993), under the Registres paroissiaux du nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick folder
30 424 redigitized images in the Drouin Collection Records
The Drouin Collection Records contain some 5,186,434 images of various registers from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia, New Brunswick and the Northeast of the United States.
The BMD Cards tool contains close to 2.3 million baptism, marriage and burial files. In 2019, we added around 105,000 cards from Quebec and Ontario to the collection.
46,444 baptism, marriage and burial files were added to the Connolly File in 2019, bringing the total number of records in the collection to over 6.5 million.
Some 45 000 images were added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections in 2019:
17 434 images from historical newspapers under the 23 – Journaux anciens folder
3 909 images of historical judicial documents under the 27 – Trois-Rivières (Juridiction) folder
2 673 images of notarized documents from the Cornwall region in Ontario, under the 26 – Contrats notariés de l’Ontario folder
2 000 images from notary Joseph Dionne’s archives, under the 18 – Autres documents folder
18 190 images of historical and genealogical significance under the 14 – Fonds d’archives folder
The Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections contain a mix of images, documents, books, pictures and directories of historical and genealogical significance.
Browse these collections – and many more – by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
Blog de l’Institut Drouin
Une nouvelle collaboratrice s’est jointe à l’équipe Drouin cette année! Marielle Côté-Gendreau, étudiante et passionnée d’histoire et de généalogie, compose des articles de blog vulgarisant des concepts linguistiques, généalogiques ou historiques et participe aux activités de rédaction de l’équipe. Vous pouvez consulter ses excellent articles sur le blog de l’Institut Drouin :
Pour conclure, l’équipe Drouin aimerait profiter de cette infolettre rétrospective pour vous souhaiter santé, bonheur et trouvailles généalogiques pour l’année 2020!
28 442 baptism, marriage and burial records have been added to the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers.
Now that the indexing of Quebec’s pre-1862 Catholic parish registers has been completed, the focus of our indexing efforts turns to the parish registers of Ontario and Acadia available in the Drouin Collection Records, as well as Quebec’s Protestant baptisms from 1760 to 1861.
Here is the list of parishes affected by this update and the number of records added for each.
Parish name
Type of record
Date range
Number of records
Alexandria
m
1836
1861
388
Baie-Ste-Marie
b
1780
1801
270
Baie-Ste-Marie
d
1799
1815
13
Beaubassin
b
1717
1748
747
Beaubassin
d
1719
1749
28
Ecouipahaq
b
1767
1768
155
Ecouipahaq
d
1767
1768
13
Embrun
m
1858
1861
16
Lafontaine
b
1856
1861
33
Lafontaine
d
1857
1857
10
Lafontaine
m
1857
1857
5
LaPasse
m
1851
1861
55
Louisbourg
b
1722
1759
2236
Louisbourg
d
1722
1758
1222
Louisbourg
m
1722
1759
572
Matane
b
1832
1841
134
Matane
d
1832
1929
59
Montréal (Anglican, Christ Church Cathedral)
b
1766
1807
1474
Montréal (Anglican, Christ Church Cathedral)
d
1801
1807
5
Orléans
b
1860
1861
108
Orléans
m
1860
1861
23
Orléans
d
1860
1861
4
Ottawa (Notre-Dame)
m
1829
1855
1729
Ottawa (St-Joseph)
b
1858
1861
258
Ottawa (St-Joseph)
d
1858
1861
77
Ottawa (St-Joseph)
m
1858
1861
37
Paincourt
b
1855
1861
411
Paincourt
d
1855
1861
128
Paincourt
m
1852
1861
70
Port-Royal
b
1702
1755
2509
Port-Royal
d
1702
1754
421
Québec (Metropolitan Church)
b
1768
1794
1005
Québec (Metropolitan Church)
d
1768
1794
484
Québec (Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian)
b
1770
1800
425
Québec (Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian)
d
1770
1794
20
South March
b
1861
1861
9
St-Charles-les-Mines
b
1707
1748
1407
St-Charles-les-Mines
d
1709
1748
166
Tecumseh
b
1859
1861
110
Tecumseh
d
1861
1861
18
Tecumseh
m
1859
1861
17
Williamstown
b
1854
1861
590
Williamstown
d
1854
1861
161
Williamstown
m
1854
1861
87
b=baptism m=marriage d=burial
All these records may now be browsed in the LAFRANCE, which also contains ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918, ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861 as well as ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849. You will find more information about the LAFRANCE on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
To conclude, the Drouin team would like to wish a great holiday season to our fellow genealogy enthusiasts and designated family historians. The holiday season is a great opportunity to share the results of your research with your loved ones and to ensure that your family history is preserved from generation to generation.
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.
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 (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.
A new archival fonds is now available in the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections, one of the 15 tools offered to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers.
Roland-Maynard Fonds – Archives and historical photos
The Roland-Maynard Fonds is an archive containing some 8,190 photos and documents of historical and genealogical significance.
It can be browsed in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections tool at this address (subscription required), under the “14 – Fonds d’archives/” folder.
The Drouin Miscellaneous Collections tool is also home to a variety of historical documents and archives such as old newspapers, judicial and municipal archives, digitized photos, and more! A true goldmine for those with a passion for history.
The Drouin Institute’s blog is also home to many tutorials and guides pertaining to GenealogyQuebec.com and PRDH-IGD.com, which are must-reads if you are to make the most of the websites.
