We are happy to announce that we have completed the addition of ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period to the LAFRANCE.
This project, which debuted in 2015, represents the addition of some 652 502 baptism and burial records from 422 different parishes.

The LAFRANCE now contains:

• 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 grand total of 3 755 659 parish records from the province of Quebec.

You will find these parish records under two formats in the LAFRANCE:

Original documents – a digitized image of the original parish register, as it was originally drafted.

Record certificate – Every record in the database is indexed under what we refer to as a certificate. The certificate contains all the relevant information extracted from the original record such as the names, dates, roles, occupations, relationships, marital status, etc.

You can use the LAFRANCE with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

For more information about the LAFRANCE as well as research tips, take a look at this article on our blog.

What’s next?

The development of the LAFRANCE continues! Our focus will now be on the indexation of every Ontarian and Acadian parish register available in the Drouin Collection, as well as all of Quebec’s Protestant baptism and burial records from 1760 to 1861. Protestant marriages from the 1850 – 1861 period will also be indexed.

Here is the list of Ontarian parish registers we plan to index up to 1861:

And here is the list of Acadian parish registers that will be indexed up to 1861:

The indexing of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials is therefore temporarily put on hold, but we will come back to it as soon as possible! We intend to index all of Quebec’s parish registers up to 1940, at a pace which will be dictated by our financial and human resources.

This massive task is entirely funded by the revenues generated from Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD.com subscriptions. We would like to thank you for the trust you place in us, without which we wouldn’t be able to preserve and share Quebec’s genealogical and historical heritage.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

The Connolly File, one of 16 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, has been updated.

A total of 46 444 baptism, marriage and burial files have been added to this collection. 105 corrections suggested by our users were also applied.

What is the Connolly File?

The Connolly File is an index of Catholic and Protestant baptisms, marriages and burials from Quebec and part of the United States covering a period extending from 1621 to 2018.
In total, the tool contains 6 500 000 baptism, marriage and burial files.

You will find more information about this collection as well as some research tips and best practices in this article.

Update details

Here is the list of regions and parishes affected by this update, which includes the number of records added and the years they cover.

Holy Blood, Holyoke MA,US
Marriages 1860-1889: 566 records added

St-Mathew de Fall River MA, US
Marriages 1885-1986: 1960 records added

Jay & Winthrop ME, US
Marriages 1872-1983: 3160 records added

St-André de Biddeford ME, US
Marriages 1899-1978: 4454 records added

Burials published in newspapers around the Quebec region
434 files added

Our Lady of Peace, Berwick ME, US
Marriages 1919-1982: 469 records added

St. Michael, South Berwick ME, US
Marriages 1818-1982: 1016 records added

Notre-Dame, Springvale ME 
Marriages 1888-1981: 1138 records added

N-D-de-Lourdes, Saco ME, US
Marriages 1927-1986: 1121 records added

St-Alphonse de Stornoway (Frontenac), QC
Baptisms 1909-1940: 921 records added
Burials 1909-1940: 264 records added

St. Louis, St. Paul MN, US
Marriages 1869-1900: 594 records added

St-Jean-Baptiste de Brunswick ME, US
Marriages 1877-1979: 3496 records added

St. Charles Borromeo de Brunswick ME, US
Marriages 1931-1980: 642 records added

St. Francis de Sales, Waterville ME, US
Marriages 1782-1989: 3988 records added

N-D-de-Lourdes de Fall River MA, US 
Marriages 1874-1962: 6509 records added

St-Thomas, Compton QC
Baptisms 1854-1939: 3990 records added
Burials 1855-1939: 1450 records added

Blessed Sacrement, Fall River MA, US
Marriages 1883-1933: 685 records added

Notre-Dame, Southbridge MA, US
Marriages 1834-1917: 2741 records added

Directeur de l’état civil du Québec
Births: 156 tardy declaration of filiation files added
Marriages: 17 057 civil/religious marriage files and civil union files added

You can browse these new documents with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec on the Connolly File at this address.

Free-access obituaries

The Online obituary section, available for free at this address, has just hit over 2 300 000 death notices!

This section contains Canadian death notices published online between 1999 and today and is updated regularly.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

More updates to Genealogy Quebec‘s tools and collections!
You will find the details of the most recent additions to the website in this newsletter.

New York state parish registers

11 000 images of parish registers from the state of New York have been added to Genealogy Quebec.

You will find these images in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “Registres divers” folder.

The registers are from the following regions:

The records cover a period stretching from the early 19th century to 1915. Note that the records can be in English, French as well as Latin.

Death files from the QFHS

5000 death files have been added to the Kardex tool. You will find them under the “01_Fiches BMS” folder, sorted by the subject’s or the husband’s last name.

Most of these files are from between 1845 and 1855 and pertain to individuals of Protestant and Catholic faith who lived in or near Quebec.

The QFHS (Quebec Family History Society) is a genealogical society located in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. It offers many resources as well as courses, conferences and seminars. You will find more information on their website.

Consulat général de France – Civil registers

1000 images from the Consulat général de France de Montréal et de Québecare now available in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “Registres divers/Québec” folder.

These images contain civil records recorded at the consulate between 1859 and 1935 and pertain to French nationals residing in Canada.

Most of the records in these registers are transcripts of vital events recorded in churches and other places of worship in Canada.

You can browse these new documents as well as 44 million images and files by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

An update has been applied to the LAFRANCE in early February. This update pertains to the Catholic baptism and burial records recorded in the province of Quebec between 1850 and 1861.

LAFRANCE update figures

Catholic baptisms 1850-1861 : 34 116 records added
Catholic burials 1850-1861 : 15 145 records added

The corrections suggested by our subscribers over the past month have also been applied.

About the LAFRANCE

The LAFRANCE, one of 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers, is a detailed index with link to the original document of ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1917, ALL Catholic baptisms and burials celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1849 as well as ALL Protestant marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1760 and 1849.

Baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period are added gradually through bimonthly updates.

Updated parishes

Here are the parishes that have been updated:

*(b = baptism, s = burial)
**the additions are dated from between the min year and the max year

Only 2 parishes remain to be added to the LAFRANCE in order to complete the addition of every Catholic baptism and burial recorded in Quebec up until 1861. Namely, the Ste-Marthe parish as well as the baptisms and burials of the year 1861 for the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.

You can use the LAFRANCE and find your ancestors by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec right now!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

More new content on GenealogyQuebec.com! This time, we’ve added over 130 000 marriages to the NBMDS tool. These marriages were transferred from the Planète Généalogie website.

Ontario marriages

83 000 marriages from various Ontario parishes have been added to the NBMDS database. These marriages were recorded between the 17th century and the end of the 20th century.

New England marriages

Around 53 000 marriages from New England were also added to the NBMDS tool.
These marriages are from the following parishes and regions:

NY, Schenectady, St-Columba
NY, Schuylerville, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
NY, Schuylerville, Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
NY, Troy, St-Jean-Baptiste
NY, Troy, St-Patrick
NH, Auburn, St-Peter
NH, Goffstown, St-Lawrence
NH, Hooksett, Holy Rosary
NH, Lakeport, Our Lady of the Lake
NH, Littleton, Ste-Rose-de-Lima
NH, Manchester, St. Anthony
NH, Portsmouth, Immaculee Conception
NH, Portsmouth, Ste-Catherine
NH, Portsmouth, St-James
Mass, Swansea
CT, Grosvenor Dale, St-Joseph
CT, West Thompson, Sacred Heart
RI, Pawtucket, Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolation
RI, Woonsocket, Ste-Famille

What is the NBMDS tool?

The NBMDS tool contains baptism, marriage and burial files created from the original document recorded in church.
Originally, the tool extended from 1727 to 2011 and covered the Laurentians, the Outaouais and Bas-St-Laurent regions as well as the city of St-Hubert.
We are now extending the period and regions covered to include parts of Ontario and the United States.

The NBMDS is equipped with a multiple field search engine. As with most of our tools, we recommend that you limit your initial search to only a few fields; a family name and the year of the event. If this produces too many results to navigate through, a first name or a second family name should be added.

You may browse the NBMDS tool with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Records and documents from the United States and Ontario available on Genealogy Quebec

Even though Genealogy Quebec primarily focuses on Quebec genealogy, the website offers multiple collections from Ontario and the United States.

Drouin Collection Records

You will find various documents from the United States and Ontario in the Drouin Collection Records, under the “États-Unis” and “Ontario” folders.

These documents are mostly Catholic parish registers but you will also find some newspapers and other bits of historically relevant publications.

Here are the parish registers available under the Ontario folder:

Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)

The 1881 Ontario census is available on Genealogy Quebec. If you are subscribed to the website, you may browse it here.

Antonin-Loiselle File

The Antonin-Loiselle File is an index of marriage files from Quebec but also from the United States, specifically Fall River, MA and Manchester, NH.

Genealogy Quebec subscribers may browse this collection at this address.

Finally, you will find various documents pertaining to Ontario and the United States in the Drouin Great Collections, the Kardex, and the Obituary section.

What’s new on the Drouin Institute blog?

Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)
An article about the Census tool, which is available on GenealogyQuebec.com

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

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

Subscribe to PRDH-IGD

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

Browse the LAFRANCE (subscription required)

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

Browse the Kardex tool (subscription required)

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

Browse the Newspaper obituaries (subscription required)

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

Browse the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous collections (subscription required)

Browse all these collections – and more – by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Blog articles published in 2018

• Acadian genealogy – Researching your Acadian ancestors

• What is Genealogy Quebec?

• What your ancestors can tell you about your life expectancy

• How far back can you research your ancestry in Quebec?

• The King’s Daughters and the PRDH database

• The first French-Canadian centenarians in Quebec

• Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD: the similarities, differences, and why you should subscribe to both

• Last names in Quebec: the influence of the pioneers

• Immigration from Old to New France

• Obituaries in Quebec

• 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

An update has been applied to the LAFRANCE in early December. This update pertains to the Catholic baptism and burial records celebrated in the province of Quebec between 1850 and 1861.

LAFRANCE update figures

Catholic baptisms 1850-1861 : 22 503 records added
Catholic burials 1850-1861 : 7 086 records added

The corrections suggested by our users over the past month have also been applied.

About the LAFRANCE

The LAFRANCE, one of 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers, is a detailed index with link to the original document of ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1917, ALL Catholic baptisms and burials celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1849 as well as ALL Protestant marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1760 and 1849.

Baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period are added gradually through bimonthly updates.

Updated parishes

Here is the list of parishes affected by this update.

You can consult the LAFRANCE and find your ancestors by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec right now!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team