135,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

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.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Over 100,000 new historical documents on Genealogy Quebec

Over 100,000 historical images 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 consult this tool at this address.

Here are the documents added via this update:

Journal Écho Abitibien

  • 50,000 new images from 1950 to 1980
  • Can be consulted in the Miscellaneous Collections under the 23 – Journaux anciens/L’Écho Abitibien/ folder

Fonds André Hurtubise

  • 32,000 new images have been added to this collection, which contains BMD cards, newspaper clippings, historical photos, and many other documents.
  • Can be consulted in the Miscellaneous Collections under the 14 – Fonds d’archives/Fonds André-Hurtubise/ folder

Fonds Philippe Beaudry

  • 22,000 images have been added to the Fonds Philippe Beaudry. This collection contains postcards and historical documents related to maritime transportation.
  • Can be consulted in the Miscellaneous Collections under the 14 – Fonds d’archives/Fonds Philippe BEAUDRY/ folder

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

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

135,000 images from the registers of 158 Catholic and Protestant parishes in Quebec have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec, to improve their quality and clarity.

Over a million images from the Drouin collection have been rescanned and made available on the website over the past few years.

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

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 is the list of the parishes that have been rescanned in this update.

Arthabaska (Missions)Caughnawaga (United Church)Delson (United Church)
DorionDrummondville (St-Frédéric)Durham-Sud (St-Fulgence)
East BroughtonFrampton (St-Édouard)Greenfield Park (United Church)
Hampstead (United Church)Hudson (United Church)Lac-Etchemin
Lachine (Sœurs Ste-Anne)Lachine (United Church Grace)Lachine (United Church Saint Andrew)
Lac-Mégantic (Ste-Agnès)Lambton (St-Vital)Longueuil (United Church Gardenville)
McMasterville (United Church)Montréal (Aide à la Femme)Montréal (Anglican, Christ Church)
Montréal (Assistance Maternelle)Montréal (Basilique Notre-Dame)Montréal (Cimetière de l’Est)
Montréal (Congrégation Notre-Dame)Montréal (Couvent des Franciscains)Montréal (Crèche de la Miséricorde & Hospice de la Maternité)
Montréal (Holy Cross)Montréal (Hôpital Notre-Dame)Montréal (Hôpital Ste-Justine)
Montréal (Hôpital Ste-Justine)Montréal (Hôpital St-Luc)Montréal (Longue-Pointe, St-François-d’Assise)
Montréal (Monastère des Carmélites)Montréal (Monastère du Bon-Pasteur)Montréal (Saint Anthony of Padua)
Montréal (St-Bernard)Montréal (St-Charles)Montréal (Ste-Jeanne-d’Arc)
Montréal (Ste-Marguerite-Marie)Montréal (Ste-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus)Montréal (St-Jean-Baptiste-Vianney)
Montréal (St-Louis-de-Gonzague)Montréal (St-Sauveur)Montréal (Très-Ste-Trinité)
Montréal (United Church All Nation)Montréal (United Church Calvary)Montréal (United Church Calvin Westminster)
Montréal (United Church Centenary)Montréal (United Church Central)Montréal (United Church Chalmers)
Montréal (United Church Chinese Montreal)Montréal (United Church City Mission)Montréal (United Church Côte-des-Neiges)
Montréal (United Church Crystal Springs)Montréal (United Church Dominion Douglas)Montréal (United Church Emmanuel)
Montréal (United Church Erskine & American)Montréal (United Church French Saint John)Montréal (United Church French Sauveur)
Montréal (United Church French Summerlea)Montréal (United Church Hospital Mission)Montréal (United Church Hungarian)
Montréal (United Church Inspector Mission)Montréal (United Church Italian of the Redeemer)Montréal (United Church La Croix)
Montréal (United Church Livingstone)Montréal (United Church Main Memorial)Montréal (United Church Mount Royal)
Montréal (United Church Mountain Street)Montréal (United Church North End)Montréal (United Church Norwood)
Montréal (United Church Port de Montréal)Montréal (United Church Private Chapel)Montréal (United Church Rockfield)
Montréal (United Church Rosedale)Montréal (United Church Saint Columba House)Montréal (United Church Saint Cuthbert)
Montréal (United Church Saint Georges)Montréal (United Church Saint Giles)Montréal (United Church Saint Giles)
Montréal (United Church Saint James)Montréal (United Church Saint Luke)Montréal (United Church Saint Mark)
Montréal (United Church Shaw Memorial)Montréal (United Church Westminster Central)Montréal, Rosemont (United Church Central)
Montréal, Rosemont (United Church First)Montréal-Est (St-Octave)Montréal-Est (United Church)
Montréal-Nord (Ste-Gertrude)Montréal-Nord (St-Vital)Montréal-Sud (United Church)
Montréal-West (United Church)Mont-Royal (United Church First)Pointe-aux-Trembles (Crèche St-François-d’Assise)
Pointe-aux-Trembles (Filles Consolatrices du Divin Cœur)Pointe-aux-Trembles (Pères Capucins)Pointe-aux-Trembles (United Church, Française Évangélique)
Pointe-Claire (Ste-Jeanne-de-Chantal)Pointe-Claire (United Church, Lilly Memorial)Pointe-Fortune (United Church)
Princeville (St-Eusèbe-de-Stanfold)RichardvilleRigaud (Jardin de l’Enfance)
St-Albert-de-WarwickSt-AlfredStandon (St-Léon)
St-AnselmeSt-BenjaminSt-Benoit-Labre
St-Cœur-de-Marie (Mégantic)St-Côme-KennebecSt-Cyprien (Dorchester)
St-Cyrille-de-WendoverSte-Anne-de-Bellevue (United Church Union)Ste-Claire (Dorchester)
Ste-Clotilde (Dorchester)Ste-Clotilde-de-HortonSt-Edmond-de-Grantham
Ste-Élisabeth-de-WarwickSte-Hélène-de-ChesterSte-Jeanne-d’Arc (Drummond)
St-Elzéar-de-LinièreSt-Éphrem-de-TringSte-Séraphine
Ste-Sophie (Ste-Sophie-d’Halifax)St-Eugène-de-GranthamSt-Évariste-de-Forsyth
St-Ferdinand (St-Ferdinand-d’Halifax)St-Frédéric (Beauce)St-Germain-de-Grantham
St-Hubert (St-Jean-Eudes)St-Jean-Baptiste-Marie-VianneySt-Lambert (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur)
St-Lambert (United Church)St-Laurent (United Church Saint Andrew)St-Léonard (St-Léonard-de-Port-Maurice)
St-LucienSt-Majorique-de-GranthamSt-Nicéphore
St-Norbert-d’ArthabaskaSt-Paul-de-ChesterSt-Pierre-Baptiste
St-Rémi-de-TingwickSt-RosaireSts-Anges
St-ValèreThetford Mines (St-Alphonse)Thetford Mines (St-Maurice)
Tingwick (St-Patrice)Vallée-JonctionVictoriaville (Ste-Victoire)
Ville-Émard (St-Jean-de-Matha)Warwick (St-Médard)Westmount (Ascension of Our Lord)
Westmount (United Church Saint Andrew)Wickham 

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Over 2.8 million deaths added to the LAFRANCE on Genealogy Quebec

2,802,719 deaths from the Deaths 1926-1997 collection have been imported into the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These deaths cover all of Quebec from 1926 to 1997.

Death of James Gordon Canning on March 18, 1943. As the source documents for the records of this collection do not contain information regarding the place of death of the individual, it is their place of residence that is displayed at the top of the certificate.

Prior to being imported into the LAFRANCE, these records were subjected to a verification process, and hundreds of thousands of corrections were applied to the name and location fields.

Trace your ancestors with the millions of historical documents available on Genealogy Quebec starting today!

Name standardisation and the resemblance function

Our main motivation for importing these records into the LAFRANCE is its superior search engine, which is equipped with name standardisation and the resemblance function.

When searching in the LAFRANCE, name standardisation ensures that a name is associated with all of its variants. For example, a query for an individual with the surname Gauthier will prompt the search engine to look through the database for any mention of the name Gauthier as well as all of its variations, such as Gautier, Gaulthier, Gotier, etc. Thus, it is not necessary to search for each variant of a name individually when using the LAFRANCE, as was the case when using the Deaths 1926-1997 tool.

In addition to name standardisation, the LAFRANCE is equipped with the resemblance function, which allows searching for a name and any other name that resembles it with a single query. The resemblance function differs from name standardisation as it not only includes all of the variants of a name, but also all of the names that are similar to it in terms of pronunciation and spelling. For example, with the resemblance function activated, a search for Gauthier, which will include all of the variants listed earlier, will also include the names Gonthier, Vauthier, Gouthier, Authier as well as their numerous variations.

Centralization

An obvious benefit of adding these records to the LAFRANCE is the centralization of the website’s documents within a single database. This allows our subscribers to carry out more efficient and rapid searches on the site, without having to jump around between collections.

In addition to the records added today, the LAFRANCE contains:

  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
  • 2,580,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1926 to today
  • 1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
  • 80,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1969 to today
  • 140,000 Ontario marriages from 1850 to today
  • 38,000 marriages from the United States
  • 3,000 Quebec Protestant marriages from 1850 to 1941
  • 68,000 miscellaneous baptisms and burials from 1862 to 2019

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Connolly File update: 29,549 new BMD records on Genealogy Quebec

An update has been applied to the Connolly File, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

17,095 births, 4514 marriages and 7978 deaths from Quebec and the United States were added through this update.

What is the Connolly File?

The Connolly File is an index of births, marriages and deaths from Quebec and French-speaking parts of the United States and Canada covering a period spanning from 1621 to today. It is developed and maintained by the Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est.
The tool contains over 6,868,849 birth, marriage and death records.

You may browse the Connolly File with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

You can trace your ancestors with the Connolly File as well as tens of millions of other documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Update details

Here is a more detailed overview of the update.

Granby Notre-Dame 
M: 1844-1940: 3261 records

Ste-Cécile de Frontenac
B: 1889-1940: 2561 records
M: 1889-1940: 402 records
D: 1889-1940: 1022 records

St-Germain-de-Grantham
B: 1857-1940: 7496 records
M: 1857-1940: 1268 records
D: 1857-1940: 3387 records

St-Luc, Grosse-Ile, Montmagny
B: 1834-1936: 403 records
M: 1834-1936: 42 records
D: 1834-1936: 835 records

Church of England, Grosse-Ile, Montmagny
B: 1840-1922: 127 records
M: 1840-1922: 16 records
D: 1840-1922: 487 records

As well as over 12,500 records from the United-States.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

22,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

Over 22,000 obituaries have been added to the Obituary Section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

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

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

Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec and start tracing your ancestors today using over 50,000,000 genealogical and 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 2.95 million obituaries published online from 1999 to today.
  • Newspaper obituaries, which now contains over 1,332,000 newspaper obituaries published between 1860 and today
  • Tombstones, 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

Over 2.4 million marriages added to the LAFRANCE on Genealogy Quebec

2,483,450 marriages from the Marriages 1926-1997 collection have been imported into the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These marriages cover all of Quebec from 1926 to 1997.

Jean Charest and Michèle Dionne’s marriage, from the Marriages 1926-1997 collection, as presented on the LAFRANCE

Prior to being imported into the LAFRANCE, these records were subjected to an exhaustive verification process, and hundreds of thousands of corrections were applied to the name, date and location fields.

Trace your ancestors with the millions of documents available on Genealogy Quebec starting today!

Name standardisation and the resemblance function

Our main motivation for importing these records into the LAFRANCE is its superior search engine, which is equipped with name standardisation and the resemblance function.

When searching in the LAFRANCE, name standardisation ensures that a name is associated with all of its variants. For example, a query for an individual with the surname Gauthier will prompt the search engine to look through the database for any mention of the name Gauthier as well as all of its variations, such as Gautier, Gaulthier, Gotier, etc. Thus, it is not necessary to search for each variant of a name individually when using the LAFRANCE, as was the case when using the Marriages 1926-1997 tool.

Click on the image above to test out the LAFRANCE‘s name standardisation

In addition to name standardisation, the LAFRANCE is equipped with the resemblance function, which allows searching for a name and any other name that resembles it with a single query. The resemblance function differs from name standardisation as it not only includes all of the variants of a name, but also all of the names that are similar to it in terms of pronunciation and spelling. For example, with the resemblance function activated, a search for Gauthier, which will include all of the variants listed earlier, will also include the names Gonthier, Vauthier, Gouthier, Authier as well as their numerous variations

Centralization

An obvious benefit of adding these records to the LAFRANCE is the centralization of the website’s documents within a single database. This allows our subscribers to carry out more efficient and rapid searches on the site, without having to jump around between collections.

In addition to the records added today, the LAFRANCE contains:

  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
  • 1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
  • 80,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1969 to today
  • 140,000 Ontario marriages from 1850 to today
  • 38,000 marriages from the United States
  • 3,000 Quebec Protestant marriages from 1850 to 1941
  • 17,000 miscellaneous Quebec marriages from 2018 and 2019
  • 68,000 miscellaneous baptisms and burials from 1862 to 2019

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

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

Over 65,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

More than 65,000 obituaries have been added to the Obituary Section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These obituaries were published online and in newspapers. They cover various regions of Quebec and Canada and date from the 20th and 21st centuries.

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

Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec and start tracing your ancestors today using over 50,000,000 genealogical and 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 2,95 million obituaries published online from 1999 to today.
  • Newspaper obituaries, which now contains close  to 1,310,000 newspaper obituaries published between 1860 and today
  • Tombstones, 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

Marriages 1926-1997 update: 2.6 million individuals added

Around to 2.6 million individuals have been added to the index of the Marriages 1926-1997 collection, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These individuals are the parents of the spouses, who were not included in the index until today.

Marriages 1926-1997

This collection includes the majority of marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1926 and 1997, which represents nearly 2.5 million records. The original document can be viewed in addition to the index.

In 1975, the government started including the spouses’ parents in these marriage forms, doing so until 1993. The parents are also mentioned in the 1926 version of the form. It is these individuals that were added to the collection’s index today.

You can consult the Marriages 1926-1997 collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.

Trace your ancestors and discover your family’s history using more than 50 million images and historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

LAFRANCE update: 21,083 new records on Genealogy Quebec

21,083 new baptism, marriage and burial records are now available on the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These new records come from 19 Acadian parishes and span from 1796 to 1862.

Mariage acadien provenant de Généalogie Québec
Grégoire Leblanc and Domitile Caissy’s marriage record at Grande-Digue, added in the latest LAFRANCE update.
Source: Record 7992792, LAFRANCEGenealogyQuebec.com

In addition to these new records, the LAFRANCE contains:

  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
  • ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
  • 1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
  • 80,000 Quebec civil marriages from 1969 to today
  • 140,000 Ontario marriages from 1850 to today
  • 38,000 marriages from the United States
  • 3,000 Quebec Protestant marriages from 1850 to 1941
  • 17,000 miscellaneous Quebec marriages from 2018 and 2019
  • 68,000 miscellaneous baptisms and burials from 1862 to 2019

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

Trace your ancestors and explore your family history with over 50 million historical images and documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Finally, here is a detailed overview of the added Acadian records by year and location:

Parish / Location Type Start End Records
Acadie (St-Bernard de Neguac)b1796179982
Acadie (St-Bernard de Neguac)m1796179811
Acadie (St-Bernard de Neguac)d179617998
Barachois, Nouveau-Brunswick (St-Henri)b181218622193
Barachois, Nouveau-Brunswick (St-Henri)m18201862512
Barachois, Nouveau-Brunswick (St-Henri)d18121861368
Cap-Pelé (Ste-Thérèse)b18591862170
Cap-Pelé (Ste-Thérèse)m1860186220
Cap-Pelé (Ste-Thérèse)d1860186221
Carleton (St-Joseph)b1819181942
Carleton (St-Joseph)m181918203
Carleton (St-Joseph)d1819181911
Central Kingsclear (Ste-Anne)b18241859314
Central Kingsclear (Ste-Anne)m1824185623
Central Kingsclear (Ste-Anne)d1824185551
Charlo (St-François-Xavier)b18531862213
Charlo (St-François-Xavier)m1855186115
Dalhousie (La-Décollation-de-St-Jean-Baptiste)b1843184312
Escuminac (Stella-Maris et Baie-Ste-Anne)b18011861648
Escuminac (Stella-Maris et Baie-Ste-Anne)m1801186161
Escuminac (Stella-Maris et Baie-Ste-Anne)d1801185567
Frédéricton (St-Dunstan)b182718665083
Frédéricton (St-Dunstan)m18271861880
Frédéricton (St-Dunstan)d18271861165
Frédéricton (Ste-Anne)b18061859602
Frédéricton (Ste-Anne)m1809185977
Frédéricton (Ste-Anne)d18091855125
Grande-Digue (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-Wellington)b180018622185
Grande-Digue (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-Wellington)m18001862469
 Grande-Digue (Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation-de-Wellington)d18021862512
Johnville (St-Jean-Baptiste)b186118612
Lamèque (St-Urbain)b18401862353
Lamèque (St-Urbain)m1849186026
Lamèque (St-Urbain)d1848185314
Milltown (St-Étienne)b183818621594
Milltown (St-Étienne)m18381862255
Milltown (St-Étienne)d1853186149
Scoudouc (St-Jacques)b18501862136
Scoudouc (St-Jacques)m1852186110
Scoudouc (St-Jacques)d1855186124
Shippagan (St-Jérôme)b182418621087
Shippagan (St-Jérôme)m18241862116
Shippagan (St-Jérôme)d1824185875
St-François-Xavier (Madawaska)b18591862193
St-François-Xavier (Madawaska)m1859186129
St-François-Xavier (Madawaska)d1859186238
St-Léonard (Madawaska)b18541861324
St-Léonard (Madawaska)m1854186114
St-Léonard (Madawaska)d186018605
St-Louis-des-Français (St-Louis)b180018621411
St-Louis-des-Français (St-Louis)m18021862252
St-Louis-des-Français (St-Louis)d18021862213
m = marriage, b = baptism, d = burial

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team