Massive PRDH-IGD Update: Over a Million New Files

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

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

50,000 new historical documents on Genealogy Quebec

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

More Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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.

Armagh (St-Cajetan)1914-1940
Beaumont (St-Étienne)1687-1821
Berthier-en-Bas1909-1940
Buckland1863-1900
Cabano (St-Mathias)1901-1919
Colombier1939-1940
Côte-Nord (Protestants)1910
Frampton (Protestants)1876-1940
Franquelin1932-1934
Greffe Michel Lavoie1737-1747
Grosse-Île (Protestants)1923
Harrington (Protestants)1921-1930
Havre-St-Pierre1861-1931
Isle-aux-Coudres (St-Louis)1878-1940
Kennebec (Protestants)1883-1940
La Malbaie1774-1824, 1850-1906 et 1923-1940
La Malbaie (Protestants)1932
La Tabatière1932-1941
Lac-Mégantic (Presbyterian Church)1894-1903
Les Éboulements1733-1932
Lourdes-de-Blanc-Sablon1912-1940
Magpie (desserte St-Octave)1890-1912
Manicouagan1902-1908
Mingan1905-1940
Murray Bay (Protestants)1912-1923
Natashquan1883-1940
North Shore (Protestants)1928
Petite-Rivière-Saint-François1773-1793 et 1929-1940
Pointe-au-Pic1912-1940
Pointe-au-Pic (Protestants)1919-1932
Port-au-Persil (Protestants)1907-1914
Postes-du-Roi1815-1861
Rivière-au-Tonnerre1898-1934
Scott (St-Maxime)1892-1940
St-Bernard 1889-1940
St-Damien-de-Buckland1896-1940
Ste-Hénédine1852-1940
Ste-Marguerite (Dorchester)1855-1939
Ste-Marie (Beauce)1842-1940
Ste-Rose-de-Watford1894-1940
St-Eugène (L’Islet)1874-1895
St-Georges (Beauce) 1874-1904 et 1926-1940
St-Georges (Beauce) (Protestants)1895-1910
St-Hilaire-de-Dorset1913-1940
St-Honoré-de-Shenley1873-1890
St-Irénée1902-1940
St-Joseph-de-Beauce1834-1874 et 1926-1940
St-Joseph-de-la-Rive1931-1940
St-Jules (Beauce)1919-1940
St-Louis-de-Gonzague (Dorchester)1912-1940
St-Luc (Dijon)1917-1932
St-Martin (Bolduc)1882-1940
St-Méthode-d’Adstock1889-1940
St-Nazaire-de-Buckland1902-1911
St-Paul-du-Nord1870-1900
St-Prosper (Dorchester)1929-1940
St-Samuel-de-Gayhurst1884-1940
St-Sébastien (Frontenac)1869-1940
St-Séverin-de-Beaurivage1872-1940
St-Théophile1891-1940
St-Urbain (Charlevoix)1913-1940
St-Victor-de-Tring1848-1940
St-Zacharie (Metgermette)1881-1888
Tadoussac (Ste-Croix)1863-1940

LAFRANCE Update: 32,000 new baptisms on Genealogy Quebec

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.

Baptism record of Ellen Broomer in Quebec, added in the latest LAFRANCE update.
Source: Record 13528024, LAFRANCEGenealogyQuebec.com

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:

ParishRecord typeMin YearMax YearNumber
St-Jean (cathédrale Immaculée-Conception)b1841186114154
Québec (Anglican, Cathedral Holy Trinity)b179618618072
Montréal (Methodist, Saint James)b181818612137
Woodstock (paroisse)b184218621471
Québec (Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Church)b183118611420
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Church of England)b181718611033
Champlain (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)b18501861895
St-Alexis (Montcalm)b18521861575
Lachine (Presbyterian, Saint Andrew)b18181861501
Montréal (Methodist, East-End Lagauchetiere)b18311861489
Québec (Anglican, Travelling Mission)b18261848340
Loch-Lomond (St-Martin)b18471862327
St-Léonard (Madawaska)b17521829161
Montréal (Congregational, Évangélique Française)b18451861158
Québec (Congregational Church, Congregational Societies)b18381861147
Québec (Anglican, Holy Trinity Church)b1859186161
Montréal (Presbyterian, Côte Saint George)b1847185041
Montréal (Congregational, United Free)b183618376

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

80,000 images from the registers of 60 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity.

To this day, over a million 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!

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.

St-Jérôme1925-1939
Ste-Thérèse1935-1935
Brownsburg1915-1936
Berthierville1727-1783 et 1846-1928
Joliette (Cathédrale)1851-1939
Joliette (Hospice St-Eusèbe)1910-1939
Joliette (St-Pierre)1916-1921
Lanoraie1879-1939
L’Assomption1897-1939
Lavaltrie1861-1939
St-Roch-de-l’Achigan1787-1939
Repentigny1926-1939
L’Épiphanie1857-1919
Mascouche1874-1926
St-Jacques-l’Achigan1886-1920
St-Cuthbert1892-1939
Ste-Élisabeth de Joliette1854-1895
St-Félix-de-Valois1851-1939
St-Gabriel-de-Brandon1839-1938
St-Lin1874-1940
St-Alexis (Montcalm)1852-1880
St-Michel-de-Saints1904-1939
St-Zénon1887-1940
St-Donat (Montcalm)1875-1907
St-Norbert1913-1939
Ste-Julienne1849-1940
St-Damien1867-1931
St-Ambroise-de-Kildare1866-1940
St-Paul-l’Hermite1857-1903
Ste-Émélie-de-l’Énergie1922-1940
St-Jean-de-Matha1855-1940
St-Théodore-de-Chertsey1925-1940
St-Côme1867-1940
Ste-Béatrix1882-1940
St-Edmond1892-1940
St-Guillaume-Nord1916-1927
Vaucluse1904-1940
St-Viateur1909-1940
St-Ignace-de-Loyola1895-1940
Rawdon (Églises protestantes)1832-1940
Rawdon (Episcopal Church)1832-1971
Rawdon (Methodist Church)1912-1940
St-Félix-de-Valois (Protestants)1901-1939
Berthier (Protestants)1823-1930
Beauharnois (St-Clément)1854-1880 et 1906-1940
Bellerive1900-1922
Châteauguay (St-Joachim)1836-1940
Châteauguay (Christ-Roi)1939-1940
Hemmingford (St-Romain)1854-1940
Hinchinbrooke (St-Patrice)1854-1939
Howick1884-1940
Huntingdon (St-Joseph)1867-1940
Ormstown (St-Malachie)1862-1940
Dundee (Ste-Agnès)1866-1900
St-Anicet1936-1940
St-Antoine-Abbé1860-1913
St-Chrysostôme1846-1915
St-Louis-de-Gonzague (Beauharnois)1898-1940
Châteauguay (Sœurs Grises)1897-1940
Montréal (Notre-Dame)1941 + index BMS

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

New historical documents on Genealogy Quebec!

Over 75,000 historical documents have been added to Genealogy Quebec‘s collections.

These include newspapers, directories, obituaries and other documents of historical and genealogical interest.

Trace your ancestors and discover your family history with tens of millions of historical documents on Genealogy Quebec today!

Here is a more detailed overview of the documents added with this update.

Historical newspapers (11,239 documents)

  • L’Artisan (Montréal), magazine of the insurance company Société des Artisans Canadiens-Français from 1905 to 1921
  • La Revue Moderne (Montréal) from 1920 to 1926
  • La Revue Présentine (Saint-Hyacinthe), organ of the Pensionnat de la Maison-Mère de l’Association des Anciennes, from 1932 to 1953
  • Le Front Ouvrier (Ottawa) from 1948
  • Le Passe-Temps, musical magazine, from november 1946
  • Rigolades et Nouvelles (Châteauguay), regional newspaper, from 1956 to 1959
  • L’Opinion Publique (Montréal) from 1870 to 1874 and 1878

These newspapers can be consulted in the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections under the folder 23 – Journaux anciens.

City directories (294 documents)

  • 1940-1941 Quebec Mining Directory

This directory can be consulted in the City directories tool under the folder Annuaire minier 1940-1941.

Miscellaneous historical documents (2361 documents)

  • Miscellaneous documents and newspaper clippings from 1940 to 1990
  • Book on the descendants of Napoléon Gareau

You can consult these documents in the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections under the folder 18 – Autres documents.

Archival Fonds (61,000 documents)

  • Société de généalogie de Saint-Hubert fonds, containing obituaries and photos of individuals
  • Fonds Ronald-Léger, containing images from the newspapers L’Avenir, le Guide and L’Express from 2008 to 2011
  • Fonds André-Hurtubise, addition of digitized negatives
  • Lavallée fonds from the Centre d’histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe, 17,219 pages of genealogical research by Mr. Lavallée
  • Fonds René-Jetté, addition of Fiches René Jetté, nearly 13,000 handwritten records in alphabetical order. Addition of nearly 7,000 additional complementary cards from his research

These archival fonds can be consulted in the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections under the folder 14 – Fonds d’archives.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Over 111,000 new births, marriages and deaths on Genealogy Quebec

Over 110,000 birth, marriage and death cards have been added to the BMD Cards collection, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These are non-Catholic births, marriages and deaths from the St-François judicial district, which encompasses most of the Eastern Townships.

They can be consulted in the BMS non-catholique, district St-François and Sépultures non-catholiques, district de Huntingdon folders, which can be found in the Fiches BMS (villes) folder at this address.

You can browse the BMD cards and trace your ancestors with tens of millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

What is the BMD cards tool?

The BMD cards tool is a repository of birth, marriage and death cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.

The documents in this collection are organized in a tree structure. In most cases, records are arranged alphabetically by the surname of the subject of the record, or the name of the place where the record is located.

As of today, the collection contains over 2.7 million cards. You will find more information as well as research tips on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

LAFRANCE Update: 18,500 New Records on Genealogy Quebec

18,500 new baptism, marriage and burial records are now available in the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These new records are from Acadia as well as Protestant parishes in Quebec.

Burial record of John Alexander Graham in Montreal, added in the latest LAFRANCE update.
Source: Record 13332939, LAFRANCEGenealogyQuebec.com

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

With it, you’ll be able to trace your ancestry back to your family’s first immigrants in Quebec. 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.

Trace your ancestors and discover your family history with over 100 million historical images and documents on Genealogy Quebec!

More details about the update:

ParishTypeStartEndRecords
Bouctouche (Mission)b18101819158
Bouctouche (Mission)s1814181926
Bouctouche (Mission)m181618197
Champlain (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation)s18501861299
Lachine (Presbyterian, Saint Andrew)s18181861204
Lachine (Presbyterian, Saint Andrew)m1850186147
Lieu inconnuk19261991167
Loch-Lomond (St-Martin)m1847186151
Montréal (Congregational, Évangélique Française)s1847186140
Montréal (Congregational, Évangélique Française)m1850186132
Montréal (Congregational, United Free)s183618376
Montréal (Methodist, East-End Lagauchetiere)s18461861220
Montréal (Methodist, East-End Lagauchetiere)m1847186190
Montréal (Methodist, Saint James)s18181861828
Montréal (Methodist, Saint James)m18501861276
Montréal (Presbyterian, Côte Saint George)s184718485
Québec (Anglican, Cathedral Holy Trinity)s179619199417
Québec (Anglican, Cathedral Holy Trinity)m18501861393
Québec (Anglican, Holy Trinity Church)s1859186131
Québec (Anglican, Holy Trinity Church)m185918618
Québec (Anglican, Travelling Mission)s18361848602
Québec (Congregational Church, Congregational Societies)s1838186185
Québec (Congregational Church, Congregational Societies)m1851186143
Québec (Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Church)s18321861533
Québec (Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist Church)m18501861309
St-Alexis (Montcalm)s18521861310
St-Jean (cathédrale Immaculée-Conception)m184118612724
St-Jean (cathédrale Immaculée-Conception)s18491853368
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Church of England)s18171861740
St-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Church of England)m1850186065
St-Léonard (Madawaska)m17661835153
St-Léonard (Madawaska)s1766176641
Woodstock (paroisse)m18421862237
Woodstock (paroisse)s1849185213

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

54,000 new obituaries on Genealogy Quebec

Over 54,000 obituaries have been added to the Obituary Section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These obituaries were published in various newspapers across Quebec and date from the 20th and 21st centuries.

You can browse these new obituaries with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec and start tracing your ancestors today with tens of millions of historical images and documents!

The Obituary section

This section contains most of the obituaries, memorial cards and headstones available on Genealogy Quebec. It is divided in 4 sub-sections:

  • Internet obituaries, which contains over 2.85 million obituaries published online from 1999 to today.
  • Newspaper obituaries, which now contains over 1,400,000 newspaper obituaries published between 1860 and today
  • Headstones, which contains more than 740,000 pictures of headstones from hundreds of cemeteries in Quebec and Ontario.
  • Memorial cards, which contains near 100,000 memorial cards published between 1860 and today.

These collections are indexed and can be explored using a search engine. You will find more information about this section on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Acadia – Families collection update on Genealogy Quebec

An update has been applied to the Acadia – Families tool, one of the 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

12,414 family files and 27,689 baptism, marriage and burial records have been added to the collection. The Acadia – Families tool can be browsed with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec and trace your ancestors with over 100 million images and documents starting today!

What is the Acadia – Families tool?

The Acadia – Families tool contains family files based on original Acadian church records.

In total, this tool contains 171,246 family files. Currently, these cover a period that spans from the beginning of the Acadian colony to the end of 1849. In addition, 38 locations covering from 1850 to the end of the available registers are included. A list of these locations as well as a more detailed overview of the collection can be found on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

The files usually contain the names and first names of the parents, the first name of the child, the dates of birth and/or baptism, of death and/or burial, and of marriage (a total of 328,623 records). Links to the original church documents pertaining to the baptisms, marriages and burials mentioned in the file are also usually available.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team