You will find, in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections (more information), a folder titled Fonds d’archives (Archival fonds), containing the genealogical and historical archives of several collaborators of the Drouin Institute. These archives contain documents of all kinds; family genealogies, photos of individuals, buildings and streets, digitizations of historical works, family histories, maps, as well as many other types of documents and archives.
It is truly a gold mine of information and documents for Quebec history and genealogy enthusiasts. This most recent update pertains to the André-Hurtubise, Gaston-Dupuis and Yvan-Beaulieu Fonds. You can consult them in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections under the “14 – Fonds d’archives” folder.
Other documents
Some 2000 images were also added in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, under the “18 – Autres documents” (Other documents) folder.
These folders contain the archives of notary Joseph Dionne dating from between 1741 and 1779 (Dionne_Joseph_1741-1779 folder), as well as a book about the descendants of Guillaume Roux, authored by Sylvain Croteau and André Roux (ROUX_Descendants_of_Guillaume folder).
Comments on the LAFRANCE
A comment field has been added to the LAFRANCE certificates, in which you will find complementary information related to the record. These comments are added by our team during the indexing process of the records. The comment field may be used, for example, to highlight a mistake made by the priest in the record.
Example of a certificate with comment, from GenealogyQuebec.com’s LAFRANCE
The comment field may also be used to bring attention to various details in the record, such as an unusual cause of death.
The LAFRANCE is an index with a link to the original document of ALL Catholic baptisms and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861, as well as ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1918. In addition, ALL Protestant marriages recorded in Quebec between 1760 and 1849 are also available on the LAFRANCE. You can start using the LAFRANCE today by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec!
BMD Cards
In order to facilitate browsing and searching on GenealogyQuebec.com, the Kardex and Loiselle File have been merged into a single collection, BMD Cards, containing baptism, marriage and burial cards from Quebec, Ontario and the United States.
In addition to the Kardex and Loiselle files, this collection contains Ontario BMD cards, BMD cards sorted by cities or families, and death cards organized by family name, provided by the Quebec Family History Society.
You can browse this collection with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
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 Loiselle File
The Loiselle File is a collection of marriage cards produced by priest Antonin Loiselle as part of his personal research. In total, this collection contains 1 044 434 marriage cards that pertain to about 100 different parishes.
The tool covers all of Quebec as well as Fall River, MA and Manchester, NH from 1621 to the mid 20th century.
The Loiselle File is navigated similarly to the Drouin Collection Records. The documents are organized in a file tree containing over 16 000 folders. Within these folders, the cards are sorted in alphabetical order of the husband and wife’s first names. A search for Abraham should be conducted within the first few cards of the folder, while a search for Zénophile should be made within the last cards.
The marriage cards contain the following information: the first and last names of the husband and wife as well as last names of the parents or previous spouse. In most cases, a date and location will be given for the marriage. Additional information may also be present, such as the residence of the spouses or the parents.
The Kardex
The Kardex is a directory of marriage cards complementary to the Men and Women series. The cards pertain to Catholic and Protestant marriages as well as notarized documents.
The Kardex covers from 1621 to around 1950 for Quebec, Ontario as well as a small part of the United States.
The Kardex is navigated similarly to the Drouin Collection Records. The documents are organized in a file tree.
The Kardex marriage cards contain the following information: the name and first name of the spouses as well as the name of the parents, or the name of the previous spouse.
In most cases, the date and location of the marriage may also be included. Additional information may be present in the card.
To better understand the structure of the Kardex cards, here is an example:
Bertrand, Joseph Alfred Émile – Husband
(Bertrand), Antoine Wilfrid – Father of the husband
St-Aubin, Rose Anna – Mother of the husband
Michaud, Marie Lise Irène – Wife
(Michaud), Joseph Adolphe – Father of the wife
Bernard, Marie Lise Elisa – Mother of the wife
St-Louis de France de Montréal – Parish in which the marriage was celebrated
12 juin 1915 – Marriage date
Fonds Fabien
The Fonds Fabien is a repository of 102,000 baptismal, marriage and burial cards from Ontario and the Outaouais region of Quebec. The cards generally contain the name of the subject(s), their parents, the date, as well as the place of recording of the event.
The cards are sorted in a file tree structure by the surname of the subject of the card (the baptized, the deceased, or the bride or groom).
Inside the folders, the cards are sorted alphabetically by the first name of the male subject. For example, an Albert will be found within the first cards and a Zénophile within the last.
Adoptions (Montréal, St-Donat)
The Adoptions (Montreal, St-Donat) folder contains adoption cards from the St-Donat parish located in Montreal. These cards include the name and dates of birth and baptism of the adopted child, the names of the adoptive parents and godparents, the date of adoption, and sometimes additional information on the individuals mentioned such as occupation and residence.
Adoption cards are sorted alphabetically by the first letter of the adoptive father’s last name. Within the folders, the cards are also in alphabetical order. For example, a Gauthier will be among the first few cards in the G folder, and a Gonthier among the last.
OUIMET, M-Gertrude Chantal – Adopted child
(OUIMET), Robert – Adoptive father
Monique Carmel – Adoptive mother
N 20-08-1964 – Date of birth
B 30-08-1964 – Date de baptism
P Marcel Carmel – Godfather
M Gertrude Bilodeau – Godmother
A 03-06-1975 – Adoption date
Confirmations Drouin-Kardex
The Confirmations Drouin-Kardex folder contains cards referring to confirmations made in Quebec in the 17th century. The cards are sorted by the last name of the confirmed person. The folders containing the cards are identified by the surnames they contain. For example, the L’Abbé-Lucas folder will contain all the cards associated with individuals whose last name is contained between L’Abbé and Lucas, alphabetically speaking. It will therefore contain all the Lavoie, Livernois, Lozon, etc.
Décès 1845-1855 – QFHS
The Décès 1845-1855 – QFHS folder contains death cards dated between 1845 and 1855 and relating to individuals of Catholic or Protestant faith who lived in or around the province of Quebec. These cards are from the Quebec Family History Society.
The cards are sorted by the last name of the deceased individual.
Fiches (familles)
The Fiches (familles) folder contains baptism, marriage and burial cards relating to various Quebec families, specifically the Briand, Giguère, Hurtubise, Pellerin, Pepin and Pimparé dit Tourangeau families.
The cards contain various details such as the names, dates and places related to the events listed.
Fiches (villes)
The Fiches (villes) folder contains baptism, marriage and burial cards relating to individuals who lived in the city of Châteauguay or in the counties of Arthabaska and Beauharnois.
The cards are sorted in folders according to the surname of the subject.
Fiches BMS (Ontario)
The Fiches BMS (Ontario) folder contains baptismal, marriage and burial cards from various regions of Ontario.
The cards are sorted according to the surname of the subject.
Finding the original church record used to create a BMD card
Your subscription to Genealogy Quebec gives you access to the Drouin Collection Records, which contain all of Quebec’s parish registers from 1621 to the 1940s as well as many parish registers from Ontario, Acadia and the Northeast of the United States.
Most of the cards available in the BMD Cards tool refer to original parish documents; it is therefore possible, in many cases, to find the original document from the information contained in a card.
We will use Patrick Nagh and Albertine Ménard’s marriage card, found in the Fonds Fabien, to demonstrate the procedure to follow to find an original document in the Drouin Collection.
In the BMD Cards, the name Joseph is often represented by the letter “J.”, as is the case here for Albertine’s father.
Patrick Nagh and Albertine Ménard’s marriage card indicates that the marriage was celebrated in St-François d’Assise Parish in Ottawa, which happens to be one of the Ontario parishes available in the Drouin Collection Records.
Once in the Drouin Collection Records, you will notice that the various registers are organized in a file tree structure. We begin by opening the Ontario folder, as the marriage we are interested in was recorded in that province. Following that, we must locate the St-François d’Assise parish.
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 Ottawa’s parishes, they are listed under the city’s name.
St-François d’Assise is found under the Ottawa folder.
Once inside the correct folder, we must navigate to the right year, which will give us access to all the images associated with the register for that specific year. It is important to know that in general, the images are listed in chronological order within a folder.
This means that the first image in the folder will contain the first events recorded during that year, which are usually the ones from January. Similarly, the last few images in the folder will hold the records from the end of the year.
Since Patrick Nagh and Albertine Ménard’s marriage was celebrated on the 3rd of April, it’s likely that the marriage record will be found among the first few images.
And so, we were able to find the original document pertaining to a BMD card using the tools available on GenealogyQuebec.com.
The PRDH website is celebrating its 20th anniversary! It was in the summer of 1999 that the Université de Montréal’s Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) launched the website, with the goal of sharing the genealogical information compiled by the PRDH with the public.
Produced in collaboration with Maison Gaëtan Morin éditeur, and thanks to a grant from the Fonds de l’autoroute de l’information, an initiative of the Government of Quebec aimed at increasing the presence of French-language content on the Internet, the website was the latest step in an already 20 year old process of making the PRDH data available outside of the academic fields.
The PRDH database takes the form of a computerized population register, composed of biographical files on all individuals of European ancestry who lived in the St. Lawrence Valley. The file for each individual gives the date and place of birth, marriage(s), and death, as well as family and conjugal ties with other individuals. This basic information is complemented by various socio-demographic characteristics drawn from documents: socio-professional status and occupation, ability to sign his or her name, place of residence, and, for immigrants, place of origin.
Over the years, the PRDH has become an evolutionary and multi-purpose database, available for queries regarding various human populations in general and that of Quebec in particular. It is a truly interdisciplinary information system.
Baptism certificate from the PRDH website
The project relies on exhaustive gathering of data from the parish registers of old Quebec. By systematic attribution of baptism, marriage, and burial certificates to the respective individuals – a “family reconstruction” made on the basis of names and family ties – people are identified and their biographies established. Thus, the PRDH contains the personal history of the Quebec ancestors of all French-Canadians and is of interest to a broad public.
Individual file from the PRDH-IGD website
That is why the PRDH inaugurated, in 1980, a series of publications intended for the general public – directory of baptisms, marriages and burials in 47 volumes covering the French Regime, CD-ROM extending this directory to the whole of the XVIIIth century, Genealogical dictionary of families from the origin of the province to 1765 on Cd-Rom -, culminating with the opening of the website in 1999. The sale of these various products derived from its academic activities has provided the PRDH with revenues that have always been reinvested in the project.
Constantly corrected when necessary and enriched over time, the PRDH site quickly became the reference for 17th and 18th century genealogy in Quebec. Moreover, the PRDH established a fruitful collaboration with the Drouin Genealogical Institute about ten years ago to pool their resources and expertise to extend the coverage of the PRDH database to the 1840s. Assisted by a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) obtained for the establishment of an integrated infrastructure of historical micro-data of the population of Quebec (IMPQ), the PRDH directory has now been extended to 1849, tripling the number of civil records in the database.
Family file from the PRDH website
Today, PRDH-IGD.com contains more than 2.5 million records and offers researchers, as well as amateur and professional genealogists, one of the most comprehensive database of its kind.
You can start using this incredible database right now by subscribing here!
And for a more in depth explanation of the database’s structure, as well as tips on how to best use the website, you’ll want to read this article on the Drouin Institute blog.
The 1741 Montreal city census has just been added to PRDH-IGD.com, thanks to the generous contribution of author and genealogist Marcel Fournier.
In addition, every individual listed in this census has been identified and linked with their PRDH-IGD Individual file.
These 553 new records can be viewed now with a subscription to PRDH-IGD.com.
What is PRDH-IGD.com?
PRDH-IGD is a directory of ALL vital events (baptisms, marriages and burials) recorded by the Catholic church in Quebec and French Canada from 1621 to 1849, as well as a genealogical dictionary of families. The PRDH-IGD database contains over 2 500 000 records.
What makes PRDH-IGD unique is how these records are connected to one another through genealogical links, which we refer to as Family Reconstructions. In addition to the baptism, marriage and burial files, PRDH-IGD contains individual and family files.
Any individual mentioned in a BMD record from the database is attributed an individual file. Similarly, any married couple mentioned in a BMD record gets their own family file, which lists all of the couple’s children.
To learn more about PRDH-IGD, you can read this article on the Drouin Institute blog.
You may also be interested in this article, which explains the similarities and differences between GenealogyQuebec.com and PRDH-IGD.com.
PRDH-IGD and Genealogy Quebec in a library near you!
Several libraries and genealogical societies now offer free-access to Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD, mainly in Quebec but also in the rest of Canada and the United States. Contact your local library or genealogical society to see if free access to the websites is available!
Libraries and genealogical societies tend to rely on suggestions and demand when selecting resources to add to their catalog. As such, the best way to have your local institution provide Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD access is simply to ask them to!
You can do so by calling or visiting the library, and letting the librarian or person in charge know about the websites. Some libraries even allow you to suggest resources through an online form.
43 164 baptism, marriage and burial records from 21 parishes of the Mauricie region have been added to the NBMDS tool, one of the 16 collections offered to Genealogy Quebec subscribers.
These records extend from 1846 to 1999 and were provided by the Société généalogique de Shawinigan. You can visit their website at http://www.histoireshawinigan.org/.
These new records can be consulted right now in the NBMDS tool (requires a subscription to Genealogy Quebec).
What is the NBMDS tool?
The NBMDS tool is an index of Catholic and Protestant baptism, marriage and burial records, mostly from the province of Quebec. The tool contains over 1.2 million records and is divided in 3 sections; baptisms, marriages, burials.
The regions covered by the tool are:
The Bas-St-Laurent region (1727 to 2011)
The Laurentides region (1727 to 2011)
The Outaouais region (1727 to 2011)
The Mauricie region, specifically the Shawinigan region (1846 to 1999)
The city of St-Hubert (1727 to 2011)
The marriage section also contains some 120 000 marriage records from the United States and Ontario, dated from between the 17th century and the end of the 20th century.
You will find more information about the NBMDS tool as well as search tips and best practices in this blog article.
Maple Stars and Stripes – French-Canadian genealogy podcast
Want to learn even more about the NBMDS tool? Do not miss a comprehensive overview of this collection in the latest episode of the Maple Stars and Stripes podcast, featuring Bertrand Desjardins and Sandra Goodwin.
The Drouin genealogical Institute is proud to support the Société de généalogie Saint-Hubert and its brand new website Clergenealogie.org, a free genealogical research website focusing entirely on members of the clergy. Clergenealogie.org currently lists over 128 000 members of the clergy who lived between the 16th century and today. You can explore this incredible database for free by registering at this address: https://clergenealogie.org/newacctform.php
“Some researchers estimate that over 120 000 young women and men in French America have dedicated their lives to religious service from the beginnings of New France to the present day. Their contribution to society is significant; they have worked in the fields of education, health and helping the most deprived (orphans, disabled, elderly, patients with intellectual disabilities, etc …) in addition to their religious functions.
The birth of these people is overwhelmingly recorded in baptismal records. But anyone who tries to follow the lives of these children to reconstruct the story of a family often loses their trace. Their religious commitment, regularly involving a name change, often “separated them from the world”. The vow of chastity they pronounced prevented them from getting married, leaving us with no marriage records to track them. Information about their deaths is often difficult to find, as religious communities sometimes have their own cemeteries and registers. They have become the “forgotten in genealogy”. ”
All of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1918 have been added to the LAFRANCE, one of the 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com‘s subscribers!
This update represents the addition of 11 167 marriage records to the database.
About the LAFRANCE
The LAFRANCE, one of 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers, is a detailed index with link to the original document of ALL Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1621 and 1918, ALL Catholic baptisms and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861 as well as ALL Protestant marriages celebrated in Quebec between 1760 and 1849.
You can start tracing your ancestors on the LAFRANCE by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec right now!
Finding the original document associated with a 1918 marriage
When you view a marriage certificate on the LAFRANCE, an image of the original parish document is usually associated with it.
In the case of Quebec’s 1918 Catholic marriages, the association between the certificate and the image will be made within the next few weeks. In the meantime, you will need to refer to the Drouin Collection Records to view the original document.
To do so, start with the marriage certificate for which you want to find the original document. We will use the marriage of Charles Emile Fillion and Yvonne Boucher on June 18, 1918 in Matane as an example.
We begin by opening the Drouin Collection Records tool and clicking on the “Québec” folder, which contains every parish register recorded in the province of Quebec between 1621 and the 1940s.
It is then a question of finding, within the folders, the parish in which the desired marriage was recorded. In our case, the parish is Matane, as indicated in the marriage certificate. We will find it under the “M” folder.
Opening the 1918 folder under Matane provides us with the list of images pertaining to the Matane register for that year. The images are sorted in chronological order; the first images will contain the January records, while the last few images will contain the December records. Since the marriage we are looking for was recorded on June 18th, we know that it will be found around the middle of the image series.
After browsing through a few images, we are able to find the original document pertaining to Charles Emile Fillion and Yvonne Boucher’s marriage.
If you’ve ever done genealogical research in Quebec, chances are that you’ve encountered “dit names”, which are secondary family names associated with a primary name, sometimes even replacing it.
These abound in the nominative history of ancient Quebec. Their origins are multiple: military nicknames, nicknames related to a physical characteristic or to the place of origin, names of fiefs among nobles, mother’s name, father’s name, etc. Some go back to the early ancestors, others are introduced by descendants; some are transmitted, others not; some are specific to the entire family line, others only concern a subset.
The result of this is that an individual may be identified under a nickname or secondary surname at any time, with no way real way to predict when.
Example from GenealogyQuebec.com’s LAFRANCE, an individual bearing the “dit name” “Bellefleur” in addition to “Pelletier”
In the context of genealogical research, “dit names” can be seen as a second family name given to an individual.
To illustrate the phenomenon, we can use Roy dit Desjardins, a frequent “dit name” combination. If you come from the Roy dit Desjardins line, your ancestors may have been named Desjardins, Roy and Roy Desjardins over the generations, which can be confusing if you are not familiar with the concept of “dit names”. Your ancestors could have alternated between one or both of these names over the records, for seemingly no reason!
Which is why you will find, on PRDH-IGD.com and GenealogyQuebec.com‘s LAFRANCE, a window dedicated to “nickname / dit name” associations. This window is located directly in the search engine.
When you enter a surname in the search engine, you will see the “dit names” associated with this last name according to their frequency in the database. This tool is particularly useful since it can allow you to trace a line of individuals who have held different family names over the generations. For example, if you do not find the marriage of the parents of your ancestor Pierre Desjardins, you will know that it is possible for Pierre Desjardins’ father to be named Roy on his wedding record, allowing you to trace the record in question more easily.
“Dit names” in the context of genealogical research
“Dit names” can help you as well as hinder your genealogical research, hence the importance of being familiar with the concept.
On the one hand, “dit names” represent, in a record, an additional source of information to identify an individual. That is, an individual with a “dit name” will be easier to identify over the various records, as the combination of the two names should distinguish it from other individuals with more common names.
For example, if you are looking for an ancestor by the name of Pierre Tremblay, you may have difficulty distinguishing him from the dozens of other Pierre Tremblay who are his contemporaries. On the other hand, if your ancestor is named Pierre Tremblay dit Boucher, it should be much easier to identify him in the records as it is a more recognizable and unique name.
However, “dit names” can also be an obstacle in your search for your French-Canadian ancestors, especially if you do not take them into account when doing your research.
Let’s use Roy dit Desjardins as an example of a common “dit name”. If you descend from the Roy dit Desjardins line, your ancestors could have been named Desjardins, Roy, and Roy Desjardins over the generations.
If you are not familiar with the “dit name” concept and are looking for records pertaining to your ancestor Pierre Roy, your research may omit several records where he is identified as Pierre Desjardins. This is why it is important to search for the both surnames individually when your ancestor has a “dit name”.
The PRDH-IGD (subscribe to PRDH-IGD) and GenealogyQuebec’s LAFRANCE (subscribe to Genealogy Quebec) search engines give you the ability to search for two last names at a time for a single individual. You can either search for both or one of the 2 names entered. To do so, select either “AND” or “OR” in the drop down menu located between the two name fields.
The search engine will then find all the individuals with one or/and the other of the selected names, which ensures you do not miss any records pertaining to your ancestor.
Name-nickname associations in the LAFRANCE and on PRDH-IGD.com
Wondering what combinations of surnames and “dit names” were most common at the time of your ancestors?
You can find out thanks to this free tool made available to you by Genealogy Quebec:
Simply enter the name you are interested in to obtain a list of all the names associated with it in one of the 3.6 million records contained in the LAFRANCE. These are listed in alphabetical order, and the frequency of each combination of names in the database is also indicated.
Two new collections of historical documents were added to the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections, one of the 16 tools available to GenealogyQuebec.com subscribers.
These new documents contain judicial records from the Trois-Rivières region dating back to New France, as well as notarized contracts from the Cornwall region of Ontario.
Trois-Rivières – Judicial records from New France
3909 images of historical judicial documents from the Trois-Rivières region have been added to the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections. You will find these images under the folder “27 – Trois-Rivières (Jurisdiction)”
Here is what you will find in these new documents:
Royal and Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Trois-Rivières (1655 – 1757)
Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Cap-de-la-Madeleine (1659-1685)
Seigneurial Jurisdiction of Batiscan (1662, 1742-1753)
Champlain District Court of Justice (1762-1764)
Minutes of the notary Jacques Latouche (1664-1669)
These archives contain details and judgments surrounding the various civil and criminal cases undertaken by these courts over the highlighted periods.
2673 images of notarized contracts from the Cornwall region of Ontario are now available in the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections, under the folder “26 – Contrats notariés de l’Ontario“.
These notarized documents date from the 1860s to the 1980s. Most of these contracts are wills and letters of administration concerning the estate of a deceased person.
What are the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections?
The Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous collections contain a mix of images, documents, books, pictures and directories of historical and genealogical significance.
Fonds d’archive (Archival fonds): Contains various archival fonds obtained from different sources and authors.
Archives municipales (Municipal archives): Contains the municipal archives of multiple Quebec cities. Can be browsed by city or by type of document.
Dictionnaire Jetté: The Jetté dictionary is a genealogical dictionary published in 1983. It covers the Quebec population of French origin.
PRDH: The original 47 PRDH volumes, which contain all Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials from Quebec for the 1621-1765 period. 300 000 records in total.
Autres documents (Other documents): Contains various archives and documents of historical and genealogical interest.
Lignes de vie (Lifelines): Contains lifelines organized by family name.
Journaux anciens (Old newspapers): Contains digitized old newspapers.
Lignées généalogiques (Genealogical charts): 2358 genealogical charts from the Planète Généalogie website
Statuts de la province de Québec: A variety of legal documents pertaining to adoptions, name changes and inheritances. The documents are sorted by the subject’s family name.
Contrats notariés de l’Ontario (Notarized documents from Ontario): 2673 images of notarized documents from the Cornwall region in Ontario, dated from between 1860 and 1990.
Trois-Rivières (Juridiction): 3909 images of judicial documents (juridiction royale et seigneuriale) from the Trois-Rivières region from the New-France era, 1655 – 1764.
This section is organized in a file tree. The names of the folders are used to identify and describe their content.
You can browse the Drouin Institute’s miscellaneous Collections with a subscription to Genealogy Quebec at this address.
4 new historical newspapers are now available on Genealogy Quebec!
You will find these 4696 new images in the Drouin Institute Miscellaneous Collections under the “23 – Journaux anciens” folder. These 4 newspapers join the Union de Woonsocket (1935-1971) and Union des Cantons-de-l’Est (1867-2008), already available on the website.
L’Avant-Garde (1896-1898)
L’Avant-Garde was a political newspaper published in the Quebec City area starting from 1896. Conservative in nature, this newspaper was dedicated to protecting the French-speaking Catholic communities of Canada.
L’avenir de Québec (1893)
L’Avenir was a daily newspaper founded in Quebec City on May 27, 1893 by J. C. Langelier. It ceased publication shortly after, in July 1893.
Le Canada-Français (1961-1963 and 1968)
Le Canada-Français is a daily newspaper from the St-Jean-sur-Richelieu region which is still published to this day.
The Advertiser (1856-1861)
The Advertiser, and Eastern Townships Sentinel was a newspaper founded in 1856 by Lucius Seth Huntington and published in Knowlton, Estrie. It was the very first newspaper published in the region.
New GenealogyQuebec.com user guide
A new version of the user guide is now available on our blog at this address.
You will find instructions on how to subscribe, log in, recover your password and access tools as well as useful links and guides for each tool. You will also find a concise overview of the period, regions and types of documents covered by each of Genealogy Quebec’s tools (a subscription is necessary to access these collections) :
We are happy to announce that we have completed the addition of ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials from the 1850-1861 period to the LAFRANCE. This project, which debuted in 2015, represents the addition of some 652 502 baptism and burial records from 422 different parishes.
The LAFRANCE now contains:
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic marriages from 1621 to 1917
ALL of Quebec’s Protestant marriages from 1760 to 1849
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms from 1621 to 1861
ALL of Quebec’s Catholic burials from 1621 to 1861
68 401 Quebec Catholic baptisms and burials from between 1862 and 2019
For a grand total of 3 755 659 parish records from the province of Quebec.
You will find these parish records under two formats in the LAFRANCE:
Original documents – a digitized image of the original parish register, as it was originally drafted.
St-Philippe parish register, sourced from the Drouin Collection
Record certificate – Every record in the database is indexed under what we refer to as a certificate. The certificate contains all the relevant information extracted from the original record such as the names, dates, roles, occupations, relationships, marital status, etc.
For more information about the LAFRANCE as well as research tips, take a look at this article on our blog.
What’s next?
The development of the LAFRANCE continues! Our focus will now be on the indexation of every Ontarian and Acadian parish register available in the Drouin Collection, as well as all of Quebec’s Protestant baptism and burial records from 1760 to 1861. Protestant marriages from the 1850 – 1861 period will also be indexed.
Here is the list of Ontarian parish registers we plan to index up to 1861:
South March
Chatham
Mattawa
South Gloucester
Orléans
Maidstone
Tecumseh
Mont-St-Patrick
Embrun
Belle-Rivière
Ottawa (St-Joseph)
Cornwall (St-Colomban)
Pakenham
Curran
Garden River (Cœur-Immaculée-de-Marie)
Pembroke (mission)
Garden River (Missions)
Wikwemikong
Lafontaine
Corkery
Pembroke (cathédrale)
Alexandria
St-Eugène
Richmond
Clarence Creek
L’Orignal
Ottawa (St-Patrice)
Ottawa (Notre-Dame)
Tilbury
Île-Drummond
Williamstown
Amherstburg (mission de la Rivière-aux-Hurons)
Eganville
St-Andrew’s West
Fitzroy Harbor
St-Raphaël
Paincourt
Amherstburg (St-Jean)
Fallowfield
St-Pierre
LaPasse
Windsor (Missions des Hurons de Detroit)
Lochiel
Windsor (L’Assomption-de-Sandwich)
Osgoode
And here is the list of Acadian parish registers that will be indexed up to 1861:
Johnville
Memramcook
Cap-Pelé
Bartibogue
St-François-Xavier
Escuminac
Golding-Grove
St-Louis-des-Français
St-Léonard
Ardouane (mission)
Charlo
Baie-des-Vents
Renous-Bridge
Baie-Verte
Scoudouc
Barachois
Loch-Lomond
Bouctouche
Dalhousie
Boujagane
Pokemouche-en-Bas
Cocagne
Pokemouche-en-Haut
Grande-Digue
Woodstock (paroisse)
Shédiac
Red-Bank
St-Charles-Borromée
Cap-Tourmentin
Bathurst-Ouest
Lamèque
Tracadie
Arichat
Acadie (St-Bernard de Neguac)
Belledune
Nash Creek (St-Bernard)
Chatham
Richibouctou
Milltown
St-Basile
Blackville
Miramichi
Frédéricton (Bureau de Santé)
Baie-Ste-Marie
Dorchester
Acadie (St-Pierre de Caraquet)
St-Anselme
Acadie (Missions)
Woodstock (Bureau de Santé)
Acadie et Gaspésie (mission d’Acadie)
Frédéricton (St-Dunstan)
Ecouipahaq
St-Andrew (paroisse)
Sunbury
Nelson
Ste-Anne-de-Restigouche
Central Kingsclear
Petitcodiac
Petit-Rocher
Sackville
Shippagan
Louisbourg
Pointe-au-Sapin
Ile-St-Jean
St-Jean (cathédrale)
Beaubassin
Argyle
Ile-Royale
Restigouche, comté de
La Baleine
Rivière-Jacquet
St-Charles-les-Mines
Shemogue
Port-Royal
Ile-du-Prince-Edouard
Acadie et Gaspésie (Registres des missionnaires)
Caraquet
Acadie (Recensements)
Frédéricton (Central Kingsclear)
Plaisance
The indexing of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials is therefore temporarily put on hold, but we will come back to it as soon as possible! We intend to index all of Quebec’s parish registers up to 1940, at a pace which will be dictated by our financial and human resources.
This massive task is entirely funded by the revenues generated from Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD.com subscriptions. We would like to thank you for the trust you place in us, without which we wouldn’t be able to preserve and share Quebec’s genealogical and historical heritage.
