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Genealogy Quebec’s search engine now lets you add a spouse to your searches, for even more detailed and targeted results.

Advanced Search

Advanced Search now allows you to add the spouse of the person you are searching for, in addition to the father, mother, and up to five types of events: birth, marriage, death, residence, and publication.

This new option helps the engine better target results associated with a couple, such as their marriage or records related to their children.

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Using Advanced Search

To use Advanced Search, first go to the search engine. By default, the engine uses Basic Search. To access more detailed options, simply click Advanced Search.

Adding family members to your search

To add a spouse to your search, make sure Advanced Search is enabled, then select the type of individual to add.

The engine then uses this information to evaluate the relevance of the results. The more a document matches your search parameters, the higher it will appear in the results list.

You can also use the “Must match” checkbox to require the spouse to be explicitly present in the document. When checked, documents that do not mention this individual in the defined role are excluded from the results.

To explore Genealogy Quebec’s search engine features in more detail, consult our user guide here.

Finding the right record just got easier.

A new search feature has been added to Genealogy Quebec’s folder-based collections – including the Drouin Collection – helping you locate relevant registers and images faster than ever before.

Search folder and file names

In all folder-based collections, you can now search for a parish, city, year, surname or keyword, and quickly find every matching folder and file within the collection.

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Feature details

This new search feature is now available in the following Genealogy Quebec collections:

• Drouin Collection Records
• Drouin Miscellaneous Collections
• BMD Cards
• City Directories

Drouin Collection

One of the most important genealogical resources for Quebec and French-Canadian research, the Drouin Collection contains parish registers and civil records from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia, New England and other regions connected to French-Canadian history.

Exclusively on Genealogy Quebec: browse a newly digitized version of the collection, offering clearer images and improved readability.

Drouin Miscellaneous Collections

These collections bring together a wide range of archives preserved by the Drouin Institute, including photographs, family documents, parish material, historical files and other unique records.

Search for traces of your family, city, parish, school, business or local community, and uncover documents that go beyond standard baptism, marriage and burial records.

City Directories

Trace your ancestors through the streets, homes and businesses of the past with Genealogy Quebec’s city directories. Access the directories of cities such as Montreal, Quebec, Laval, Ottawa and Hull, Cornwall, Rimouski and more, going back to the 19th century.

BMD Cards

The BMD Cards are index-style writeouts of baptism, marriage and burial records, often containing the key names, dates and places needed to identify the original record. They can be especially useful for regions or periods not covered elsewhere, and with the new search feature, you can search for a family name and quickly find matching card files.

Genealogy Quebec’s search engine now lets you add a father and mother to your searches, for even more detailed and targeted results.

Advanced Search

Advanced Search now lets you include up to five event types — birth, marriage, death, residence, and publication — as well as a father and mother to your searches.
Access the search engine here to try these new features.

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Using Advanced Search

To use Advanced Search, first go to the search engine. By default, the engine uses Basic Search. To access more detailed options, simply click Advanced Search.

Adding family members to your search

To add family members to your search, make sure Advanced Search is enabled, then select the individual(s) you want to add. As of today, you may add a father and/or a mother to the search.
The engine will then use this information to match you with the most relevant documents. The more a document matches your search parameters, the higher it will be ranked in the results list.

You can also use the “Must match” checkbox to require the explicit presence of one or more individuals in the record. When selected, records that do not mention the individual(s) in their defined role are excluded from the results.

It is also possible to perform a search without adding a subject, but only in specific cases: searching for a father only, a mother only, or a father and mother together. This type of search can be useful when, for example, you want to find all the children of a couple.

To explore Genealogy Quebec’s search engine features in more detail, consult our user guide here.

A brand-new collection of directories and censuses featuring over one million individuals is now available on Genealogy Québec!

New collection

This collection features directories and censuses spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries from across Quebec.
While the information varies by source, records often provide key details such as the city and year of residence, date of birth, and occupation.

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Browsing the collection

These new records are available using the site’s search engine.

To limit your results to this collection, use the Directories filter under Phonebooks, City Directories, School Yearbooks.

16,000 images from the registers of 35 parishes in Quebec and Acadia have been re-digitized in high definition on Genealogy Quebec, offering greatly improved readability.

Re-digitized Registers

Nearly 1.5 million parish register images from Quebec and Acadia have now been re-digitized — exclusively on Genealogy Quebec.

List of re-digitized parishes.

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Parishes re-digitized in this update

Montréal (Basilique Notre-Dame), Sépultures 1912-1913
Acadiens & Acadiennes 1755-1799
Papiers de Placide Gaudet (microfilm 3108)
Barnaby-River 1882-1899
Bartibogue 1801-1900
Bathurst-Est 1881-1899
Bathurst-Ouest 1798-1899
Belledune 1839-1899
Blackville 1837-1900
Burnt 1891-1899
Cam’s River 1880-1898
Caraquet 1806-1899
Chatham 1838-1899
Dorchester 1833-1899
Ecouipahaq 1767-1768
Eel-Ground 1872-1912
Lower-Caraquet 1898-1899
Memramcook 1806-1900
Memramcook (Lettres des Missionnaires) 1786-1831
Moncton (St-Bernard) 1873-1900
Néguac (Northumberland) 1796-1900
Nelson 1826-1900
Newcastle 1862-1899
Paquetville 1874-1899
Petit-Rocher 1824-1899
Pokemouche-en-Bas 1843-1899
Pokemouche-en-Haut 1843-1899
Red-Bank 1841-1900
Remous-Bridge 1853-1902
Robertville 1884-1899
Sackville 1886-1900
Shippagan 1824-1899
St-Isidore 1876-1899
Tracadie 1798-1899
Westmorland 1888-1907

You may browse these registers at this address.

140,000 obituaries have been added to
Genealogy Quebec!

These new records come from across Canada and span from the 1960s to today.

Obituaries and memorial cards

Access over 5 million obituaries and memorial cards covering two centuries of Canadian history, all fully searchable through our search engine.

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Update details

Update to the Internet Obituaries Collection

• 70,000 new obituaries
• From across Canada
• Covering the period from September 2024 to September 2025
• Available through the search engine in the Internet Obituaries collection

Acadian Obituaries – Viateur Robichaud Collection

• 65,000 new obituaries
• From Acadia
• Covering the years 1967 to 2024
• Available through the search engine in the Newspaper Obituaries collection

Obituaries of French-Canadian Descendants from Alberta – Northwest Genealogical Society Collection

• 2,800 new obituaries
• Primarily from Alberta
• Covering the years 1960 to today
• Available through the search engine in the Newspaper Obituaries collection

All Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec from 1862 through 1871 are now online at PRDH-IGD.com, adding more than 75,000 records to the database.

Of the 150,000 spouses mentioned in these marriages, over 85% have been integrated into the PRDH family reconstructions. They now each have their own family file, in addition to appearing in their parents’ file.

Explore this new data by subscribing to PRDH today!

What is PRDH-IGD?

PRDH-IGD is a database of all Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861 – and now up to 1871 for marriages – as well as a genealogical dictionary of families commonly known as “Family reconstructions”.

Every individual mentioned in these records receives 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 the 1860s.

Useful links

• More information about PRDH
• Subscribe to PRDH
• Genealogy Quebec and PRDH: the similarities, differences, and why you should subscribe to both

260,000 Obituaries and Memorial Cards Added to Genealogy Quebec!

New Obituaries

These new records come primarily from Quebec, but also include material from several other Canadian provinces, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries.

You can start exploring them through our search engine today!

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Obituaries and Memorial Cards on Genealogy Quebec

Several collections of obituaries and memorial cards are available on Genealogy Quebec.

Online Obituaries Collection

• 3,000,000 obituaries from various online sources
• Covers all of Canada
• Includes records from 1999 to today

Newspaper Obituaries Collection

• 1,670,491 obituaries from newspaper publications, along with some memorial cards
• Primarily covers Quebec and Ontario, with records from other provinces as well
• Includes documents from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries

Memorial Card Collection

• 99,699 memorial cards
• Mainly from Quebec
• Spanning from the mid-19th century to the present day

You can explore these records through our search engine

Search tip

To narrow your search results, use the “Obituaries, Headstones, Memorial Cards” filter on the left—this will show only those specific record types.

44,000 images from the registers of 75 Quebec parishes have been re-digitized in high definition on Genealogy Quebec, offering greatly improved readability.

Re-digitization of the Registers

In total, over 1.4 million images from the Drouin Collection have been re-digitized and enhanced for significantly improved readability — exclusively on Genealogy Quebec.

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The Drouin Collection Records

The Drouin Collection Records, also known simply as the “Drouin Collection,” consist of digitized images 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. The collection spans from the opening of parish registers up to the 1940s, and in some cases, the 1960s.

You can access them with a Genealogy Quebec subscription at this address.

Searching in the Drouin Collection

You can search in the Drouin Collection using our search engine, which now offers advanced search features!