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More than 60,000 obituaries have been added on Genealogy Quebec!

Explore these documents alongside 60 million historical archives on the website’s new search engine.

And for a limited time, get 25% off the yearly subscription to Genealogy Quebec! There’s never been a better time to dive into your family history.

Newspaper obituaries from Quebec

22,000 obituaries have been added to the Newspaper Obituaries collection. These notices are from all over Quebec and date from 1850 to 2024.

The Newspaper Obituaries collection, available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec, now contains 1,475,000 death notices. These are mainly from Quebec and Ontario, but also from the rest of Canada and the United States.

You can search the collection directly at this address.

Internet Obituaries from Canada

38,000 obituaries have been added to the Internet Obituaries collection. These notices are from 2024 and were published all over Canada.

The Internet Obituaries collection contains over 3,000,000 Canadian death notices from various online sources, covering from 1999 to the present day.

You can search the collection directly at this address.

More than 87,000 births, marriages and deaths have been added to Genealogy Quebec and can now be consulted on our new search engine.

Not a member? No worries! Click the button below for a free preview of the new search.

La Prairie baptisms, marriages and burials

A fruitful collaboration with the Société d’histoire de La Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine has enabled us to add all of La Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge de Laprairie de la Magdelaine (Notre-Dame) parish’s baptisms and burials from 1862 to 2000, as well as all marriages from 1919 to 2000.

In all, nearly 30,000 records have been added.

Jewish births, marriages and deaths

We have also added over 56,000 records from various Jewish synagogues in Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke, as well as 2,300 headstones from the Jewish section of Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Laval. A digitized picture of the register or stone is available with each record.

Canadian obituaries

Finally, we are pleased to share with you some 2,316 obituaries from various Canadian provinces, covering the years 1950 to 1990. These obituaries relate to French-Canadian families, and are courtesy of the Société généalogique du Nord-Ouest.

Dive into your family history with over 100 million historical archives, become a Genealogy Quebec member today!

Genealogy Quebec’s new search engine just received a major update.
 
This update affects the ABCD Couples and ABCD Individuals databases, which contain records that aggregate diverse information gathered from a variety of sources.

This update aims to enhance the quality and relevance of the records within these databases. To achieve this, over 5.7 million records have been corrected, merged or removed.

You will notice a significant improvement in the quality of results from these sources.

Genealogy Quebec’s new search engine lets you browse over 60 million historical documents with a single search.
Try it for free today!

Upcoming developments – Advanced search

We are excited to announce that the next development stage of the search engine is underway!
Soon, you will be able to add the individual’s mariage, death and residence dates and locations to your search.

We hope to roll out these new features over the winter.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

A new way to explore Genealogy Quebec’s millions of historical documents is now available!

Discover our brand-new search engine, giving you access to over 65 million genealogical records.

Browse through all 19 of the site’s databases with a single search using our cutting-edge technology. Tracing your ancestors on Genealogy Quebec has never been easier.

Try it for free now!

And for a limited time, get 25% off the yearly Genealogy Quebec subscription!

About the new search engine

A global search

You can now search through the entire website with a single query.

A smart search

The technology on which the new search engine is based enables much more advanced logic to be incorporated into the various search functions, giving you much greater flexibility when it comes to your queries. Approximate date, alternative spelling or typo? No problem for the new search engine; you’ll still find what you’re looking for.

Dynamic filters

Your search results can now be segmented using three categories of filters:

• Type of document
• Location
• Year

These filters allow you to refine your search results directly from the results page. For example, you can choose to only display a specific type of document or source collection, or you can limit the results to a particular location or time period.

An abundance of new data

Millions of previously unpublished historical documents are now available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec’s new search engine.

The infrastructure on which the engine is built enables us to share collections that were previously unavailable to the general public. This new data includes BMD records, individual and family files, censuses and historical directories.

In all, we’re talking about over 35 million new documents, for a total of 65 million historical archives to be discovered on the engine.

For more information, please refer to the New Search Engine User Guide.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

51,000 images from the registers of 227 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity.

To this day, over 1.35 million Drouin collection images have been rescanned and are available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec.

The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous copy, which ensures great legibility.

Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today.

Get 25% off the yearly subscription if you subscribe by June 24th!

A monthly subscription is also available at this address.

The Drouin Collection Records

The Drouin Collection Records are a collection of parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) covering all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States, from the parish’s foundation up to the 1940s and sometimes 1960s.

You can browse the Drouin collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

The LAFRANCE, also available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, is a search engine allowing you to explore these parish registers by names.

You can browse the LAFRANCE at this address.

List of rescanned parishes

Here are the parishes that have been rescanned in this update.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

83,000 images from the registers of 72 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity.

To this day, over 1.3 million Drouin collection images have been rescanned and are available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec.

The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous copy, which ensures great legibility.

Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Get 25% off the yearly subscription if you subscribe by March 31st!

A monthly subscription is also available at this address.

The Drouin Collection Records

The Drouin Collection Records are a collection of parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) covering all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States, from the parish’s foundation up to the 1940s and sometimes 1960s.

You can browse the Drouin collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

The LAFRANCE, also available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, is a search engine allowing you to explore these parish registers by names.

You can browse the LAFRANCE at this address.

List of rescanned parishes

Here are the parishes that were rescanned in this update.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

It is our great pleasure to announce one of the most important updates ever made to PRDH-IGD!

A subscription to PRDH-IGD.com will now give you access to all French-Canadian individuals and families who lived in Quebec from the very beginnings of the French colony to 1861!

This massive update adds over a decade of coverage to the database, and represents the addition of 738,696 vital records, 544,537 individuals and 94,264 families.

Your family history awaits you! Subscribe to PRDH-IGD today and discover your ancestors with the most detailed and comprehensive database of its kind.

What is PRDH-IGD?

PRDH-IGD.com is a database of all Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861 (nearly 3.2 million records) as well as a genealogical dictionary of families commonly known as “Family reconstructions”.

All individuals mentioned in these records receive their own “individual file” which centralizes the information available on the individual, along with links to the records in which they are mentioned.

In addition, every married couple receives their own “family file”, which fulfills a similar role as the individual file, but for a family unit.
It contains a list of the couple’s children with links to their respective individual files and vital events, as well as additional information about the married couple.

As a result, PRDH-IGD can be described as a detailed family tree of the entire French-Canadian population from the colony’s beginnings to 1861.

PRDH-IGD is the result of a rigorous academic effort spanning decades and is recognized worldwide as one of the most detailed and reliable demographic databases.

You’ll find a more detailed overview of the database at this address.

Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD: Similarities, differences and benefits of subscribing to both

Are you a Genealogy Quebec subscriber considering a subscription to PRDH-IGD? Discover the unique benefits of subscribing to both sites! You’ll find all the answers to your questions in this blog post.

Price adjustment

PRDH-IGD’s prices have been adjusted for the first time in over 5 years. This moderate adjustment follows the inflation rate of recent years and ensures continuity in the quality of our services.

Adjusted prices can be viewed at this address.

Next steps

This update represents a significant step towards completing family reconstructions up to 1861. However, further updates are planned over the coming months to complete the period. You can follow all future developments through our newsletter.

Genealogically yours,

The Institut Drouin and PRDH teams

Over 50,000 historical documents have been added to the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

The Drouin Miscellaneous Collections contain an assortment of images, documents, books, photos and directories of historical and genealogical interest. You can browse this tool at this address.

Trace your ancestors with tens of millions of genealogical records by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Clarence Cross collection – Family files

• 37,000 family files from Eastern Ontario, containing information about a family unit. The files are sorted by the husband’s surname.
• Can be consulted in the Miscellaneous Collections under folder 26 – Généalogie Saint-Laurent – Cornwall, Ontario/Collection Clarence Cross/

Biographies of French America

• 54,000 biographies of individuals who lived from the 17th to the 20th century. The biographies are sorted by surname. An excellent source of less common information about your ancestors.
• Can be consulted in the Miscellaneous Collections under folder 32 – Compilation des Biographies de l’Amérique Française/

We would like to thank Mr. Daniel Dionne, compiler of this impressive collection, for bequeathing it to us for safekeeping.

Do you have genealogical archives that you’d like to preserve? Contact us at contact@institutdrouin.com, we’d love to help!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

50,000 images from the registers of 64 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity.

To this day, over 1,200,000 images from the Drouin collection have been rescanned on the website.

The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous version, which ensures great legibility.

Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Get 25% off the yearly subscription until December 20th.

A monthly subscription is also available at this address.

The Drouin Collection Records

The Drouin Collection Records are a collection of parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) covering all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States, from the parish’s foundation up to the 1940s and sometimes 1960s.

You can browse the Drouin collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

The LAFRANCE, also available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers, is a search engine allowing you to explore these parish registers by searching for the individual(s) mentioned in them.

You can browse the LAFRANCE at this address.

List of rescanned parishes

Here are the parishes that were rescanned in this update.

32,000 new baptism records are now available in the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These new records are from Acadia and Quebec.

The LAFRANCE contains 11 million birth, marriage and death records from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia and the United States.

These records will allow you to trace your ancestry back all the way to your family’s first immigrants in the region. The LAFRANCE contains:

• Every Catholic marriage from Quebec between 1621 and 1918
• Every Protestant marriage from Quebec between 1760 and 1849
• Every marriage recorded by the Quebec government between 1926 and 1997
• Every Catholic baptism and burial from Quebec between 1621 and 1861
• Every death recorded by the Quebec government between 1926 and 1997
• 1.7 million additional marriages from various sources in Quebec, Ontario, and the USA between 1919 and today
• Tens of thousands of additional records from Quebec, Ontario and Acadia

More information about the LAFRANCE can be found on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

Start discovering your family history with over 100 million historical images and documents on Genealogy Quebec today!

Here are more details about the update:

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team