The years 1915 to 1978 of Lovell’s Montreal City Directory have been added to the City Directories tool, one of the 15 collections offered to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
In total, 150,000 new images are now available to subscribers of the website.
Lovell’s Montreal City Directory
The Lovell is a municipal directory of the city of Montreal and its surroundings published since the 1840s. It contains, among other things, a list of residents sorted by street and address, a list of residents in alphabetical order, a list of merchants and professionals as well as a list of various institutions.
On Genealogy Quebec, the Lovell is presented in a tree structure in the City Directories tool. Every year, from 1843 to 1978, is divided into a series of subfolders:
Introduction – Contains the cover page, a preface, as well as a table of contents
Index to Streets, Avenues, Lanes – An index of the streets, avenues and lanes of the city
Index to Miscellaneous – An index of miscellaneous institutions (shops, religious and governmental buildings, schools, etc.) by name
Index to Page Advertisers – An index of advertisers who paid for a full page advertisement
List of Line Advertisers – An index of advertisers who paid for a small advertisement
Advertisers Business Classified Directory – Advertisers indexed by type of of services offered
Street Directory – An index of residents and businesses, sorted by street and address
Alphabetical Directory – An index of residents and businesses, sorted by name
Places in the neighborhood of Montreal outside city limits – A shorter, less detailed version of the city directory for neighborhoods of Montreal that weren’t inside city limits at the time
Miscellaneous directory – An index of traders and professionals organized by the types of services they offer
Within these folders, another series of subfolders divides the images by letter, in alphabetical order. For example, to find the address of a Desjardins ancestor, you must go to Alphabetical Directory and open the “D” folder under the desired year.
The City Directories tool also contains the Marcotte, which is the Lovell‘s equivalent for Quebec City.
You can browse the Marcotte and Lovell directories as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
16,767 baptism, marriage and burial cards have been added to the BMD cards tool, one of 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These cards cover the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Iberville regions from 1900 to 1970.
You can browse them with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec in the BMD cards tool, under the ” Fiches (villes)/District judiciaire d’Iberville/ ” folder.
What is the BMD cards tool?
The BMD cards tool is a repository of baptism, marriage and burial cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
The documents in this collection are organized in a tree structure. In the majority of cases, the cards are distributed in alphabetical order according to the last name of the subject of the card or the name of the location where applicable.
You can browse the BMD cards collection as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
Original document linked to 1919 marriages in the LAFRANCE
Most of the 1919 marriages available in the LAFRANCEare now linked with their original church document.
To view the document, open the record certificate and click on the link located at the top right corner of the certificate.
Record certificate of a marriage from the LAFRANCE. The blue arrow shows where to click to access the original document.Original document as presented on the LAFRANCE.
More information about the LAFRANCE
The LAFRANCE is a research database of millions of birth, marriage and death records from Quebec, Ontario and the United-States. It currently contains:
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
80,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1969 to today
140,000 Ontario marriages from 1850 to today
38,000 marriages from the United States
3,000 Quebec Protestant marriages from 1850 to 1941
17,000 miscellaneous Quebec marriages from 2018 and 2019
68,000 miscellaneous baptisms and burials from 1862 to 2019
35,000 marriages from the Directeur de l’État Civil du Québec are now available in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These marriages, originally published on the Directeur de l’État Civil’s website, cover the years 2018 and 2019.
Inside it, you will find a list of folders. The marriages are listed in alphabetical order according to the last name of the husband or wife.
For example, in order to find the marriage of a Nadeau, simply go to the N folder and browse the list of marriages alphabetically listed there.
You can browse these marriages as well as tens of millions of genealogical and historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
Community and social networks
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The Drouin Genealogical Institute, in collaboration with its partner Micromatt, offers a scanning service adapted to your needs and requirements which takes into account your budgetary constraints.
Since 1972, Micromatt has provided a wide range of products and services related to microfilm and electronic document management. Their reputation is built on a personalized approach that takes into account your needs and requirements, the possibilities offered by current technology and your budget realities. Micromatt cares about the success of your archival projects and takes the time to better target appropriate solutions.
In addition to common administrative documents scanning, Micromatt also has the equipment and expertise to digitize your plans and technical drawings, your books and bound documents, even old and fragile, as well as your microfilms on 16 and 35 mm reels, microfiche or aperture cards. Micromatt can even scan very large artworks at very high resolution.
For its part, the Drouin Genealogical Institute specializes in sharing and preserving the historical and genealogical heritage of Quebec. Today, this preservation involves the digitization of the hundreds of millions of documents which reside, often forgotten, in the many libraries, societies and other institutions of the province.
From there was born the Micromatt-IGD collaboration, which aims to offer you a high-quality digitization service accompanied by unique offers made possible by the commercialization of historical and genealogical archives performed by the Drouin Institute.
PLANS AND DRAWINGS
Your large documents, in black or in color, can be converted into digital files to keep, transport and view, even on your mobile platforms. Micromatt can scan your plans, technical drawings, maps and other large documents up to 48 inches wide, even using advanced image processing to improve readability.
DIGITIZATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS
Micromatt can take over the scanning of your day-to-day business documents such as contracts, invoices, human resources documents, event and research records, etc.
In addition to the obvious space saving they provide, digitized documents can be viewed and shared without travelling, and they can easily be stored and secured in multiple locations to control access.
While microfilm serves a long-term archival need, digitization can be used on records that you need to access every day.
MICROFORMS SCANNING
While the secure preservation of microfilm documents has now been replaced by digital scanning, there is still a very large quantity of legacy microfilm and microfiche, from which we can also extract indexed digital files to make them accessible and easier to read and share.
BOOK SCANNING
You can now ensure the longevity of your old and precious books, even fragile, entrusting us scanning your bound documents of all sizes. Using highly specialized scanners, ensuring the capture of pages without physical constraints or damaging lighting, our operators will be able to extract high quality images allowing even full text search. This allows you to give broad access to these rare documents more easily to more people.
DIGITIZATION OF GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL ARCHIVES
Over the past 20 years, Micromatt has digitized more than 20 million historical records for the Drouin Genealogical Institute, and has developed unparalleled expertise in digitizing historical records of all formats and types.
In addition, Micromatt offers a free optical character recognition (OCR) service, producing a detailed index of scanned documents for you to search.
Digitize twice as many of your historical documents while keeping the same budget!
Thanks to a collaboration with the Drouin Genealogical Institute, you now have the opportunity to double your digitization capacity while keeping the same budget!
The concept is simple: the Drouin Institute subsidizes 50% of the costs incurred by the digitization of your archives and gives a second life to these documents by making them available on its website GenealogyQuebec.com. The documents digitized on Genealogy Quebec will be used by its members to discover and trace the history of their families in the province.
We are mainly interested in the following types of archives:
List of electors
Censuses
Birth, marriage and death registers
Obituaries
Baptism, marriage and burial directories
Headstone pictures
City directories
Property assessment rolls (List of land owners)
Memorial cards
Wedding photos (with names)
Postcards
Newspapers
School yearbooks
Boarding school registers (Adoption, nurseries, hospices, orphanages, schools, convents)
Other historical documents with a high density of names
Contact us to submit your project!
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Contact us right now!
Phone: (514) 931-7508
Email: micromatt@institutdrouin.com
Address: 1170, rue Beaulac , Saint-Laurent, QC H4R 1R7
Some 5000 documents have been added to the BMD cards tool, one of 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These documents are from the Société d’histoire de la Seigneurie de Monnoir located in Marieville, Québec. Here are the details:
Collection Monast 2186 family and BMD cards.
Fiches St-Sulpice 1134 marriage cards from the St-Sulpice parish in Lanaudière.
Recensement (census) 1765 de St-Mathias 226 handwritten cards pertaining to residents and the content of their farms.
St-Joseph-de-Chambly 279 baptism, marriage and burial cards from the St-Joseph-de-Chambly parish, 19th century.
Généalogie et fiches (Genealogies and cards) 1078 family cards, Dominique Lague’s genealogy, and death cards from the Chambly region.
These new documents may be browsed with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
What is the BMD cards collection?
The BMD cards tool is a repository of baptism, marriage and burial cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
This tool contains the Antonin Loiselle, Kardex and Fabien fonds, as well as Ontario BMD cards, BMD cards sorted by cities and families, adoption cards, and death cards sorted by family name, provided by the Quebec Family History Society.
The documents in this collection are organized in a tree structure. In the majority of cases, the cards are distributed in alphabetical order, according to the last name of the subject of the card or the name of the place where applicable.
This screenshot shows the path to follow in order to find cards relating to members of the Gobert family.
You can browse the BMD cards collection as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
Donating documents to the Drouin Institute
Whether you are a genealogist or a history enthusiast, you probably have accumulated a lot of information and documents over the years.
The Drouin Genealogical Institute, whose mission is the preservation and democratization of the historical and genealogical heritage of Quebec, is constantly looking for documents and data to add to the collections available on Genealogy Quebec.
If you would like to donate your documents and ensure their preservation and access for future generations, please contact us at contact@institutdrouin.com.
We are mainly interested in the following types of archives:
List of electors
Censuses
Birth, marriage, and death registers
Obituaries
Baptism, marriage, and burial directories
Headstone pictures
City directories
Property assessment rolls (List of land owners)
Memorial cards
Wedding photos (with names)
Postcards
Newspapers
Boarding school registers (Adoption, nurseries, hospices, orphanages, schools, convents)
Other historical documents with a high density of names
On May 20, 2011, the Drouin Genealogical Institute completed its digital shift by launching Genealogy Quebec, providing online access to more than 100 years of historical data accumulated over the course of its existence.
When it launched, Genealogy Quebec offered ten collections totaling 34 million images and files.
Genealogy Quebec’s homepage from 2011 to 2014
The website has evolved quite a bit over the past 10 years!
Genealogy Quebec’s homepage today
But much more than just the design has changed. Indeed, millions of new documents and images have been added over the last decade. Here is an overview of what is available on Genealogy Quebec today.
The LAFRANCE
The LAFRANCE is an index with link to the original document of births, marriages and deaths from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia and the United States. It contains:
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
80,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1969 to today
140,000 Ontario marriages from 1850 to today
38,000 marriages from the United States
3,000 Quebec Protestant marriages from 1850 to 1941
17,000 miscellaneous Quebec marriages from 2018 and 2019
68,000 miscellaneous Quebec BMD records from the 20th and 21st century
You may browse the LAFRANCE with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
This tool is an index of most of the marriages and deaths recorded in Quebec between 1926 and 1997, all religious denominations included. The original document is available for the marriages.
You may browse the Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997 tool with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Obituary section
This section contains all of the obituaries and headstones available on the website. It contains:
2.6 million Canadian obituaries published online between 1999 and today
1,250,000 obituaries published in Quebec and Ontario newspapers between 1945 and today
97,000 memorial cards published between 1860 and today
712,000 tombstones from Quebec and Ontario cemeteries
You may browse the Obituary section with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
12 additional tools and collections
In addition to the collections mentioned above, Genealogy Quebec members have access to 12 additional tools containing various types of documents. These include notarial records, postcards, birth, marriage and death directories, city directories, censuses, family genealogies as well as archival funds containing historical documents and photos of all kinds.
You will find a list of all of the website’s tools at this address.
In total, Genealogy Quebec now offers more than 49 million images and documents allowing you to retrace the history of your ancestors in Quebec and the surrounding areas. Subscribe now to get access!
To all of our subscribers, whether you’ve been with us for a day or 10 years, thank you! It is through your support that we have been able to develop and grow our collections, and thus participate in the preservation of the historical heritage of Quebec and French Canadians.
Whether you are a genealogist or a history enthusiast, you probably have accumulated a lot of information and documents over the years.
The Drouin Genealogical Institute, whose mission is the preservation and democratization of the historical and genealogical heritage of Quebec, is constantly looking for documents and data to add to the collections available on Genealogy Quebec.
If you would like to donate your documents and ensure their preservation and access for future generations, please contact us at contact@institutdrouin.com.
We are mainly interested in the following types of archives:
List of electors
Censuses
Birth, marriage, and death registers
Obituaries
Baptism, marriage, and burial directories
Headstone pictures
City directories
Property assessment rolls (List of land owners)
Memorial cards
Wedding photos (with names)
Postcards
Newspapers
School yearbooks
Boarding school registers (Adoption, nurseries, hospices, orphanages, schools, convents)
Other historical documents with a high density of names
Whether your documents are listed or not, do not hesitate to contact us!
Six historical newspapers have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
Here are the newly available newspapers:
Le Franco-Canadien (1893 to 1899) Le Richelieu (1935 to 1969) Le Richelieu agricole (1978 to 1980, 1983 and 1984) Le Richelieu agricole et Dimanche (1986 and 1987) Le Richelieu Dimanche (1987) Le Canada-Français (various years between 1888 and 1987)
You will find these 72,841 new images in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, under the “23 – Journaux Anciens” folder. These six publications add to the many newspapers already available in the section:
Chesterville Record
Commercial Gazette (Montréal)
Daily Witness (Montréal)
La Chronique de la Vallée du St-Maurice
La Minerve
La Semaine (Québec)
La Tribune Canadienne (Montréal)
La Vie Illustrée (Montréal)
La Voix Du Peuple (St-Jean)
L’Action Canadienne
L’Alliance (St-Jean)
L’Avant-Garde
L’Avenir de Quebec
Le Carillon (Québec)
Le Castor (Québec)
Le Charivari (Québec)
Le Courrier (St-Jean)
Le National (Montréal)
Le Progrès du Golfe
Le Protectionniste (St-Jean)
Le Semeur Canadien (Montréal)
Le Trésor des Familles (Québec)
L’Écho d’Iberville
L’Essor (St-Jean)
L’Obligation (Montréal)
L’Opinion Publique (Montréal)
L’Union de Woonsocket
L’Union des Cantons de l’Est (Arthabaskaville)
Midi-Presse (Montreal)
Paris-Canada (Montréal)
The Advertiser
The Canadian Jewish Review
The Dominion Illustrated News (Montréal)
The Inquirer (Trois-Rivières)
The Quebec Gazette
You may browse these documents as well as 49 million images and files of genealogical and historical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
More new content on Genealogy Quebec! This time in the Obituary section, which contains all the obituaries, memorial cards and tombstone pictures available on the website.
Memorial Cards
5,350 memorial cards have been added to the Obituary section, which now contains a total of 97,802 cards. You can search this collection by name or first name of the deceased as well as by date of death.
Most of these cards pertain to individuals who died in Quebec between 1860 and today. You can browse this collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Internet obituaries
A new milestone is within reach in the Internet Obituaries section, with close to 2,600,000 death notices now available. As the name suggests, this section contains obituaries from various online sources and covers all of Canada from 1999 to today.
This collection is updated monthly and is equipped with a search engine allowing you to browse obituaries by name, date, or via the text of the notice.
All these documents can be browsed in the Obituary section, where you will also find, in addition to memorial cards and internet obituaries, 710,000 indexed photos of headstones and 1,250,000 death notices from Quebec and Ontario newspapers. More information about the Obituary section can be found on the the Drouin Institute blog.
Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec to have access to the Obituary section as well as 14 other tools totaling nearly 47 million images and files!
