Over 50,000 historical documents have been added to the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.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.
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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!
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.
The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous version, which ensures great legibility.
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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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Over 135,000 Canadian obituaries have been added to the Obituary Section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These obituaries were published online or in newspapers 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 close to 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.
