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A new way to explore Genealogy Quebec’s millions of historical documents is now available!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Millions of previously unpublished historical documents are now available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec’s new search engine.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Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today.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

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.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

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 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