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.
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You can browse these marriages as well as tens of millions of genealogical and historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
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Some 5000 documents have been added to the BMD cards tool, one of 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These documents are from the Société d’histoire de la Seigneurie de Monnoir located in Marieville, Québec. Here are the details:
Collection Monast 2186 family and BMD cards.
Fiches St-Sulpice 1134 marriage cards from the St-Sulpice parish in Lanaudière.
Recensement (census) 1765 de St-Mathias 226 handwritten cards pertaining to residents and the content of their farms.
St-Joseph-de-Chambly 279 baptism, marriage and burial cards from the St-Joseph-de-Chambly parish, 19th century.
Généalogie et fiches (Genealogies and cards) 1078 family cards, Dominique Lague’s genealogy, and death cards from the Chambly region.
These new documents may be browsed with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
What is the BMD cards collection?
The BMD cards tool is a repository of baptism, marriage and burial cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
This tool contains the Antonin Loiselle, Kardex and Fabien fonds, as well as Ontario BMD cards, BMD cards sorted by cities and families, adoption cards, and death cards sorted by family name, provided by the Quebec Family History Society.
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 place where applicable.
This screenshot shows the path to follow in order to find cards relating to members of the Gobert family.
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!
Donating documents to the Drouin Institute
Whether you are a genealogist or a history enthusiast, you probably have accumulated a lot of information and documents over the years.
The Drouin Genealogical Institute, whose mission is the preservation and democratization of the historical and genealogical heritage of Quebec, is constantly looking for documents and data to add to the collections available on Genealogy Quebec.
If you would like to donate your documents and ensure their preservation and access for future generations, please contact us at contact@institutdrouin.com.
We are mainly interested in the following types of archives:
List of electors
Censuses
Birth, marriage, and death registers
Obituaries
Baptism, marriage, and burial directories
Headstone pictures
City directories
Property assessment rolls (List of land owners)
Memorial cards
Wedding photos (with names)
Postcards
Newspapers
Boarding school registers (Adoption, nurseries, hospices, orphanages, schools, convents)
Other historical documents with a high density of names
On May 20, 2011, the Drouin Genealogical Institute completed its digital shift by launching Genealogy Quebec, providing online access to more than 100 years of historical data accumulated over the course of its existence.
When it launched, Genealogy Quebec offered ten collections totaling 34 million images and files.
Genealogy Quebec’s homepage from 2011 to 2014
The website has evolved quite a bit over the past 10 years!
Genealogy Quebec’s homepage today
But much more than just the design has changed. Indeed, millions of new documents and images have been added over the last decade. Here is an overview of what is available on Genealogy Quebec today.
The LAFRANCE
The LAFRANCE is an index with link to the original document of births, marriages and deaths from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia and the United States. It contains:
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918
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 Quebec BMD records from the 20th and 21st century
You may browse the LAFRANCE with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
This tool is an index of most of the marriages and deaths recorded in Quebec between 1926 and 1997, all religious denominations included. The original document is available for the marriages.
You may browse the Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997 tool with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Obituary section
This section contains all of the obituaries and headstones available on the website. It contains:
2.6 million Canadian obituaries published online between 1999 and today
1,250,000 obituaries published in Quebec and Ontario newspapers between 1945 and today
97,000 memorial cards published between 1860 and today
712,000 tombstones from Quebec and Ontario cemeteries
You may browse the Obituary section with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
12 additional tools and collections
In addition to the collections mentioned above, Genealogy Quebec members have access to 12 additional tools containing various types of documents. These include notarial records, postcards, birth, marriage and death directories, city directories, censuses, family genealogies as well as archival funds containing historical documents and photos of all kinds.
You will find a list of all of the website’s tools at this address.
In total, Genealogy Quebec now offers more than 49 million images and documents allowing you to retrace the history of your ancestors in Quebec and the surrounding areas. Subscribe now to get access!
To all of our subscribers, whether you’ve been with us for a day or 10 years, thank you! It is through your support that we have been able to develop and grow our collections, and thus participate in the preservation of the historical heritage of Quebec and French Canadians.
Six 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 available newspapers:
Le Franco-Canadien (1893 to 1899) Le Richelieu (1935 to 1969) Le Richelieu agricole (1978 to 1980, 1983 and 1984) Le Richelieu agricole et Dimanche (1986 and 1987) Le Richelieu Dimanche (1987) Le Canada-Français (various years between 1888 and 1987)
You will find these 72,841 new images in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, under the “23 – Journaux Anciens” folder. These six publications add to the many newspapers already available in the section:
Chesterville Record
Commercial Gazette (Montréal)
Daily Witness (Montréal)
La Chronique de la Vallée du St-Maurice
La Minerve
La Semaine (Québec)
La Tribune Canadienne (Montréal)
La Vie Illustrée (Montréal)
La Voix Du Peuple (St-Jean)
L’Action Canadienne
L’Alliance (St-Jean)
L’Avant-Garde
L’Avenir de Quebec
Le Carillon (Québec)
Le Castor (Québec)
Le Charivari (Québec)
Le Courrier (St-Jean)
Le National (Montréal)
Le Progrès du Golfe
Le Protectionniste (St-Jean)
Le Semeur Canadien (Montréal)
Le Trésor des Familles (Québec)
L’Écho d’Iberville
L’Essor (St-Jean)
L’Obligation (Montréal)
L’Opinion Publique (Montréal)
L’Union de Woonsocket
L’Union des Cantons de l’Est (Arthabaskaville)
Midi-Presse (Montreal)
Paris-Canada (Montréal)
The Advertiser
The Canadian Jewish Review
The Dominion Illustrated News (Montréal)
The Inquirer (Trois-Rivières)
The Quebec Gazette
You may browse these documents as well as 49 million images and files of genealogical and historical interest by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
More new content on Genealogy Quebec! This time in the Obituary section, which contains all the obituaries, memorial cards and tombstone pictures available on the website.
Memorial Cards
5,350 memorial cards have been added to the Obituary section, which now contains a total of 97,802 cards. You can search this collection by name or first name of the deceased as well as by date of death.
Most of these cards pertain to individuals who died in Quebec between 1860 and today. You can browse this collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Internet obituaries
A new milestone is within reach in the Internet Obituaries section, with close to 2,600,000 death notices now available. As the name suggests, this section contains obituaries from various online sources and covers all of Canada from 1999 to today.
This collection is updated monthly and is equipped with a search engine allowing you to browse obituaries by name, date, or via the text of the notice.
All these documents can be browsed in the Obituary section, where you will also find, in addition to memorial cards and internet obituaries, 710,000 indexed photos of headstones and 1,250,000 death notices from Quebec and Ontario newspapers. More information about the Obituary section can be found on the the Drouin Institute blog.
Subscribe to Genealogy Quebec to have access to the Obituary section as well as 14 other tools totaling nearly 47 million images and files!
An update has been applied to the Connolly File, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
19,219 baptisms, 13,249 marriages and 42,321 burials 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 2020. It is developed and maintained by the Société de généalogie des Cantons-de-l’Est. The tool contains over 6,750,000 birth, marriage and death records.
An update has been applied to the Acadia – Families tool, one of the 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
Some 11,453 family files were added through this update.
What is the Acadia – Families tool?
The Acadia – Families tool contains 141,795 family files based on original Acadian records.
Currently, these records span from the beginning of the Acadian colony to the end of 1849. In addition, 33 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 are available on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
The files compile the information available about a family unit. They usually contain the names and first names of the parents, the first name of the child, the dates of birth and/or baptism, death and/or burial, and marriage (a total of 263,905 events), as well as the parish. Links to the original church documents pertaining to the baptisms, marriages and burials mentioned in the file are also often available.
Family file from the Acadia – Families tool. The blue links lead to the original documents.
Over 500,000 newspaper obituaries from Ontario, Quebec and the United States have been added to the Obituary Section, one of 15 collections available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
Here is a list of the sources (place or publication) of these new death notices:
Brockville, Ontario
Chesterville, Morrisburg and Winchester, Ontario (mostly 2003 to 2007)
Evening Citizen, Ottawa, Ontario (1949)
Journal de Montréal, Quebec
Journaux de Tampa Bay, Florida (2000s)
Valleyfield, Quebec (2000s)
La Nouvelle, Ontario (2001)
Le Carillon d’Hawkesbury, Ontario (1980s and 1990s)
Le Droit d’Ottawa, Ontario (21st century)
Le Quotidien de Chicoutimi, Quebec (1999 to 2006)
Le Reflet, Lachute, Quebec
Massena Observer, New York (2002 to 2005)
Northern Times, Kapuskasing, Ontario (1990s and 2000s)
Ogdensburg and Watertown, New York
Ottawa Citizen, Ontario (1990 to 2018)
Cornwall Standard Freeholder, Ontario (1904 to 2017)
Sudbury Voyageur, Ontario (1980s, 1990s and 2000s)
The Glengarry News, Ontario
The Vision, Prescott Russell County, Ontario
Women Dixon Institute, Cornwall, Ontario.
Ontario death notices from the Cayer Collection (1960 to 2010)
These death notices are indexed by the first and last name of the subject as well as the date of death. You may browse them with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
Please note that the original document is missing for some obituaries. The missing images will be added as soon as possible.
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 2.5 million obituaries published online from 1999 to today.
Newspaper obituaries, which now contains 1,250,000 newspaper obituaries published between 1860 and today.
Tombstones, which contains more than 710,000 pictures of headstones from hundreds of cemeteries in Quebec and Ontario.
Memorial cards, which contains tens of thousands of memorial cards published between 1860 and today.
These collections are indexed and can be explored using a search engine.
You may browse these documents as well as tens of millions images and files of genealogical and historical relevance by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec.
To conclude, we would like to thank Généalogie et Archives St-Laurent and particularly Norbert Lussier, who is to thank for this incredible collection of obituaries.
Over 1.7 million marriages dating from 1850 to today have been added to the LAFRANCE, one of the 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers. These marriages were transferred from the NBMDS and Connolly File collections.
Search results from the LAFRANCE showing some of the new records
Here are the locations and periods covered by these marriages:
1,450,000 Quebec Catholic marriages from 1919 to today
80,926 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
17,002 miscellaneous Quebec marriages from 2018 and 2019
Name standardisation and the resemblance function
The LAFRANCEhas a significative advantage over the other tools available on Genealogy Quebec, as its search engine 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 any of its variations, such as Gautier, Gaulthier, Gotier, etc. Thus, it isn’t necessary to manually search for multiple variants of a name when using the LAFRANCE, unlike on the NBMDS and Connolly tools.
Standardisation of the Lavoie surname in the LAFRANCE
In addition to name standardisation, the LAFRANCE is equipped with the resemblance function, which allows you to search for a name and any other name that resembles it with a single query. The resemblance function differs from name standardisation because 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, 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
A fairly obvious benefit of adding these records to the LAFRANCE is having more documents centralized in a single tool. This allows our subscribers to carry out more efficient and rapid searches on the site, without having to jump around between collections. With that in mind, we plan to transfer a large number of documents to the LAFRANCE in the months to come.
Corrections
We took the opportunity presented by this transfer of records to systematically correct them. As such, the names of the parishes associated with the records have been standardized, numerous name entry errors have been corrected, and all duplicated records have been deleted. Therefore, the copy of these records which is currently in the LAFRANCE is of much better quality than the one previously available on the website.
In conclusion, the standardisation of names, the resemblance function, and the correction and centralization of these records has made them much easier to search and access on the site.
More about the LAFRANCE
In addition to these newly added records, the LAFRANCEcontains ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1918, ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from 1621 to 1861, ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849 as well as over 68 000 additional BMD records from 1861 to 2008. You will find more information about the LAFRANCE on the Drouin Institute’s blog.
You may browse the LAFRANCE as well as tens of millions of documents of genealogical and historical significance by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today!
Finding the original document associated with a record
For now, the marriages added to the LAFRANCE through this update are not linked to the original document from which they are sourced. However, as a Genealogy Quebec subscriber, you have access to all of Quebec’s parish registers up to the 1940s in the Drouin Collection Records. Therefore, you can find the original document associated with a record if it dates from before the mid-1940s.
To illustrate the process of finding a document in the Drouin Collection, we will use the marriage record of Clovis Desjardins and Corinne Dufour, celebrated in St-Sauveur-Des-Monts on February 4th, 1925.
Clovis and Corinne’s marriage as presented on the LAFRANCE
First, we head over to theDrouin Collection Records tool, where Quebec’s parish registers are located. You will notice that the registers are sorted by location. As the document we are trying to find was recorded in Quebec, it is in that folder that we will carry out our research. The collection that interests us, that is, the civil copy of all of Quebec’s parish registers up to the 1940s, is found under the Fonds Drouin folder.
Some parishes are listed under the name of the city they are located in, while others will be listed under the name of the parish itself. In the case of St-Sauveur-Des-Monts, the parish and the city bear the same name.
Once inside the parish’s folder, we must navigate to the correct year, which will give us access to all the images associated with that register for that specific year. It is important to know that in general, the images are listed in chronological order. This means that the first image in the folder will contain the first events recorded during the year, which are usually the ones from January. Similarly, the last few images in the folder will be those from the end of the year. As Clovis Desjardins and Corinne Dufour’s marriage took place early in the year in February, we can expect to find it among the first images of 1925.
And with that, we were able to find the source document associated with one of the newly added LAFRANCE marriages.
