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

39,745 births, 22,209 marriages and 17,460 deaths were added through this update.

What is the Connolly File?

The Connolly File is an index of births, marriages and deaths from Quebec and parts of the United States and Canada covering a period spanning from 1621 to 2021. It is developed and maintained by the Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est.
The tool contains over 6,839,262 birth, marriage and death records.

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

You will find more information about this collection as well as research tips and best practices in this article on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

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.

Quebec

St-Jean-Baptiste de Sherbrooke
Births 1884-1940 : 9135 records
Marriages 1884-1940 : 1659 records
Deaths 1884-1940 : 4138 records

Waterville Church of England
Births 1856-1942: 1070 records
Marriages 1875-1942: 210 records
Deaths 1846-1943: 469 records

St-Eugène-de-Grantham
Births 1879-1940: 2586 records
Marriages 1881-1940: 472 records
Deaths 1880-1940: 1230 records

Quebec Civil Registration
Births 2021 : 127 records
Marriages 2021 : 6150 records

St-Ludger comté de Frontenac
Births 1897-1940: 2892 records
Marriages 1897-1940: 376 records
Deaths 1897-1940: 874 records

St-Chrysostome de Châteauguay
Births 1840-1940: 10860 records
Marriages 1841-1990: 2546 records
Deaths 1840-1940: 4265 records

Wickham, Drummond county, St-Jean-l’Évangéliste
Births 1865-1940: 3248 records
Marriages 1865-1940: 505 records
Deaths 1865-1940: 1498 records

St-Félix-de-Kingsey, Drummond county
Births 1842-1940: 5784 records
Marriages 1842-1940: 1070 records
Deaths 1842-1940: 2057 records

United States

St. Roch de Fall River MA
Marriages 1865-1982: 1667 records

Auclair Funeral Home, Fall River MA
Deaths 1894-1992: 2929 records

St. Joseph, Attleboro MA
Births 1870-1995: 4043 records

Lewiston ME, St. Patrick
Marriages 1876-1978: 2350 records

Notre Dame, Waterville ME
Marriages 1903-1980: 2161 records

Sacred Heart, Waterville ME
Marriages 1901-1980: 2571 records

Our Lady of Holy Rosary, Richmond VT
Marriages 1857-1932: 472 records

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

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

Over the past year, 17,037 family files and 37,029 baptism, marriage and burial records have been added to the collection.

What is the Acadia – Families tool?

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

In total, this tool contains 158,832 family files. Currently, these cover a period that spans from the beginning of the Acadian colony to the end of 1849. In addition, 37 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 300,934 dates). Links to the original church documents pertaining to the baptisms, marriages and burials mentioned in the file are also usually available.

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 49 million images and documents today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

The registers of 90 non-Catholic parishes from the Outaouais and Laurentides regions of Quebec have been added to the Drouin Collection Records, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These registers, acquired from the Quebec Family History Society, contain over 40,000 images and cover up to 1979.

Here are the parishes that were added in this update.

These new images may be browsed with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec in the Drouin Collection Records under the Québec/Registres non-catholiques 1760-1979/ folder.

The Drouin Collection Records tool is a collection of images of parish registers (baptisms, burials and marriages) that covers all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States.

This massive collection contains the entirety of Quebec’s civil registration from 1621 to the 1940s, which encompasses the vast majority of individuals who lived in the province during that period, making it an invaluable tool for genealogical research.

You can browse all of these registers as well as tens of millions of documents of genealogical and historical interest with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec right now!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

In 2021, we added more than a million documents and images allowing you to trace your ancestors on Genealogy Quebec, including birth, marriage and death records, headstones, city directories, death notices, memorial cards, historical newspapers and much more!

Thanks to these additions, the Genealogy Quebec website now offers some 49,877,724 images and files which allow you to trace your family’s history in the province and the surrounding area, from the beginnings of the colony to today.

Here is a more detailed overview of the year’s additions.

LAFRANCE

• 31,586 new birth, marriage and death records from Quebec, Ontario and New-Brunswick. (Details)
• Addition of 1,700,000 marriage records dating from 1850 to today, from the NBMDS tool and Connolly File. (Details)

More information on the LAFRANCE

Browse the LAFRANCE (subscription required)

Obituary section

• 43 new cemeteries from Quebec (Details)
• 115,000 new online obituaries
• 5,350 new memorial cards (Details)
• Over 500,000 new death notices from Quebec, Ontario and the United States (Details)

More information on the Obituary section

Browse the Obituary section (subscription required)

Connolly File

• 74,789 new baptism, marriage and burial records (Details)

More information on the Connolly File

Browse the Connolly File (subscription required)

BMD Cards

• Over 30,000 cards referring to hundreds of thousands of births, marriages and deaths (Details 1, 2, 3)

More information about the BMD Cards tool

Browse the BMD Cards tool (subscription required)

Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections

• 31 new historical newspapers totaling for over 100,000 images (Details 1, 2)
• 35,000 new mariage records from the Directeur de l’État Civil du Québec dating from 2018 and 2019 (Details)

More information on the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections

Browse the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections (subscription required)

City Directories

• Addition of the years 1915 to 1978 of Montreal’s Lovell City Directory, 150,000 new images

More information about the City Directories tool

Browse the City Directories tool (subscription required)

Acadia – Families

• Collection update: 11,453 new family files (Details)

More information on the Acadia – Families tool

Browse the Acadia – Families tool (subscription required)

Drouin Institute’s Blog

Our team continues exploring various topics of genealogical and historical interest on our blog. Here is what we published in 2021.

• Genealogy and care work by Audrey Pepin
• Quebec’s civil registration is 400 years old by Marcel Fournier
• Priests, the moral authority of New France by François Desjardins
• Women in Quebec’s toponymy by Audrey Pepin
• Our slave-owning ancestors, Part 1 and Part 2 by Cathie-Anne Dupuis
• The omission of women in family trees, Part 2 and Part 3 by Audrey Pepin
• Quebec birth, marriage and death records by François Desjardins
• What connects the names Routhier and Lavallée? by Bertrand Desjardins

To conclude, the Drouin team would like to wish you health, happiness and many genealogical discoveries in 2022, and thank you for the trust you have placed in us for now more than 10 years.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

9,000 images referencing hundreds of thousands of baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in Montreal have been added to the BMD Cards, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

The collection covers the following periods:

• Non-Catholic baptisms 1760 to 1899
• Catholic Marriages 1850 to 1899, A to D surnames
• Civil marriages 1969 to 1975
• Non-Catholic marriages 1760 to 1925
• Catholic burials 1642 to 1850, A to B surnames
• Non-Catholic burials 1768 to 1925

Images from this collection contain references to original records that you can also find on Genealogy Quebec in the Drouin Collection Records.

To demonstrate the process of finding an original record, we will be using John Nicholson’s burial which can be found in this new collection.

The directory gives us all the information necessary to find the original document of this burial: the name of the subject as well as the year and the parish of registration of the event.

John Nicholson was buried in 1817 and his burial is recorded in the Anglican Garrison register in Montreal.

We must now head to the Drouin Collection Records and find the folder pertaining to this register for 1817. Inside it, we will find the original record.

In addition to these new documents, the BMD cards contain some 2.3 million baptism, marriage and burial cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.

You will find more information about this collection on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

You can browse the BMD cards collection as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

New articles on the Drouin Institute’s blog

Genealogy and care work by Audrey Pepin
Priests, the moral authority of New France by François Desjardins
Women in Quebec’s toponymy by Audrey Pepin
Our slave-owning ancestors part 1 and part 2 by Cathie-Anne Dupuis
The omission of women in family trees by Audrey Pepin
Quebec birth, marriage and death records by François Desjardins

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

25 historical newspapers have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

Here are the newly added newspapers:

Le Soleil (Québec) (1909, 1939, 1940 and 2005)
Hebdo-Progrès (St-Léonard et Rosemont) (1984)
La Parole (Drummondville) (1991 et 1992)
La Santé (Montréal) (1969 and 1970)
La Voix de l’Est (1971, 1976 and 1979)
La Voix de Wolfe (Ham-Nord) (1969 and 1970)
Le Canada-Français (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) (1971 to 1973)
Le Courrier d’Orsainville (Québec) (1969)
Le Monde Illustré (Montréal) (1887 to 1900)
Le Pharillon (Gaspésie) (1979 and 1980)
Le Progrès Dimanche (Chicoutimi) (1966)
Le Quotidien (Chicoutimi) (1982)
Le Richelieu Agricole (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) (1981 and 1982)
Le Riviera (Sorel) (1960 to 1962)
Le Samedi (Montréal) (1946)
L’Écho (Louiseville) (1986 and 1987)
L’Écho Abitibien (Val d’Or) (1987)
L’Électeur (PLQ) (1967, 1968, 1971 to 1976)
Les Nouvelles Saint-Laurent News (1985 and 1986)
L’Horizon (Joliette) (1970 and 1972)
Notre Temps (Montréal) (1951, 1952, 1957 to 1960)
Perspectives Dimanche Matin (Montréal) (1974 and 1975)
The Richmond News (Richmond) (April 30th 1897, May 7th 1897 and December 18th 1914)
The Watchman (Lachute) (1919 to 1922)
Ville de Val-Bélair (January 28th, 1966)

You will find these 33,900 new images in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, under the “23 – Journaux Anciens” folder. These 25 publications add to the many newspapers already available in the section:

You may browse these documents as well as 49 million images and files of genealogical and historical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

27,153 headstones from 43 cemeteries in Quebec have been added to the Obituary section, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

The Obituary section now contains over 730,000 headstones.

The Obituary section

The Obituary section is home to all of the obituaries, memorial cards and headstones available on Genealogy Quebec. It is divided in 4 sub-sections.

Internet obituaries

This section contains obituaries published online by various Canadian newspapers and funeral homes between 1999 and today. As of October 2021, the collection contains over 2,630,000 obituaries and is being updated monthly.

Newspaper obituaries

This section contains over 1,250,000 death notices published in newspapers from Quebec, Ontario and the United States between 1860 and today.

Memorial cards

This section contains 97,800 memorial cards published between 1860 and today. Most of these cards pertain to individuals who died in Quebec.

Headstones

This section contains 730,000 indexed pictures of headstones from various cemeteries in Quebec and Ontario. Here is a list of the cemeteries available in the collection.

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

You can browse the Obituary section as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical significance by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

The years 1915 to 1978 of Lovell’s Montreal City Directory have been added to the City Directories tool, one of the 15 collections offered to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

In total, 150,000 new images are now available to subscribers of the website.

Lovell’s Montreal City Directory

The Lovell is a municipal directory of the city of Montreal and its surroundings published since the 1840s. It contains, among other things, a list of residents sorted by street and address, a list of residents in alphabetical order, a list of merchants and professionals as well as a list of various institutions.

On Genealogy Quebec, the Lovell is presented in a tree structure in the City Directories tool. Every year, from 1843 to 1978, is divided into a series of subfolders:

• Introduction – Contains the cover page, a preface, as well as a table of contents
• Index to Streets, Avenues, Lanes – An index of the streets, avenues and lanes of the city
• Index to Miscellaneous – An index of miscellaneous institutions (shops, religious and governmental buildings, schools, etc.) by name
• Index to Page Advertisers – An index of advertisers who paid for a full page advertisement
• List of Line Advertisers – An index of advertisers who paid for a small advertisement
• Advertisers Business Classified Directory – Advertisers indexed by type of of services offered
• Street Directory – An index of residents and businesses, sorted by street and address
• Alphabetical Directory – An index of residents and businesses, sorted by name
• Places in the neighborhood of Montreal outside city limits – A shorter, less detailed version of the city directory for neighborhoods of Montreal that weren’t inside city limits at the time
• Miscellaneous directory – An index of traders and professionals organized by the types of services they offer

Within these folders, another series of subfolders divides the images by letter, in alphabetical order. For example, to find the address of a Desjardins ancestor, you must go to Alphabetical Directory and open the “D” folder under the desired year.

The City Directories tool also contains the Marcotte, which is the Lovell‘s equivalent for Quebec City.

You can browse the Marcotte and Lovell directories as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

16,767 baptism, marriage and burial cards have been added to the BMD cards tool, one of 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These cards cover the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Iberville regions from 1900 to 1970.

You can browse them with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec in the BMD cards tool, under the ” Fiches (villes)/District judiciaire d’Iberville/ ” folder.

What is the BMD cards tool?

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

The documents in this collection are organized in a tree structure. In the majority of cases, the cards are distributed in alphabetical order according to the last name of the subject of the card or the name of the location where applicable.

You will find more information about this collection on the Drouin Institute’s blog.

You can browse the BMD cards collection as well as tens of millions of other documents of historical and genealogical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

Original document linked to 1919 marriages in the LAFRANCE

Most of the 1919 marriages available in the LAFRANCE are now linked with their original church document.

To view the document, open the record certificate and click on the link located at the top right corner of the certificate.

More information about the LAFRANCE

The LAFRANCE is a research database of millions of birth, marriage and death records from Quebec, Ontario and the United-States. It currently 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

For more information about the LAFRANCE, visit the Drouin Institute’s blog.

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

35,000 marriages from the Directeur de l’État Civil du Québec are now available in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.

These marriages, originally published on the Directeur de l’État Civil’s website, cover the years 2018 and 2019.

Browsing the DECQ marriages

To browse the DECQ marriages, head over to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections and open the “31 – Mariages DECQ” folder.

Inside it, you will find a list of folders. The marriages are listed in alphabetical order according to the last name of the husband or wife.

For example, in order to find the marriage of a Nadeau, simply go to the N folder and browse the list of marriages alphabetically listed there.

You can browse these marriages as well as tens of millions of genealogical and historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!

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The Drouin team