Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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Institut Drouin
Published on
05/09/2022
Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

66,522 images from the registers of 72 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 now been redigitized on the website.

Before and after comparison of a rescanned Saint-Régis mission register page, much clearer after rescanning
Before and after comparison of a rescanned Hull register page: faded handwriting becomes sharp and readable

Rescanned images.
Source: Drouin Collection Records, GenealogyQuebec.com

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

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The Drouin Collection Records

The Drouin Collection Records are a collection of parish registers (baptisms, marriages and burials) covering all of Quebec and French Acadia as well as parts of Ontario, New Brunswick and the Northeastern United States, from the parishes’ opening 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.

Individual search in LAFRANCE with Desjardins as surname and Ferdinand as first name
Marriage of Ferdinand Desjardins and Anastasie Pelletier in St-Pacôme on November 17, 1868, record and LAFRANCE entry

Example of a search using the LAFRANCE

You will find more information about the LAFRANCE at this address.

Rescanned parishes

Below is a list of the parishes that have been rescanned in today’s update.

Abbotsford (St-Paul)Acton Vale (St-André)
Asbestos (United Church)Ascot (Universalist Church)
Ayer’s Cliff (United Church)Ayer’s Flat (Congregational Church)
Ayer’s Flat (Congregational Church)Brompton (Church of England)
Buckingham (St-Grégoire-de-Nazianze)Bury and Lingwick (Church of England)
Coaticook (Church of England)Compton (Church of England)
Cookshire (Church of England)Danville (Church of England)
Danville (Congregational Church)Derby Line (Universalist Church)
DeschênesDixville (Church of England)
Dudswell and Ham (Church of England)East Angus (Church of England)
Eaton (Church of England)Eaton (Congregational Church)
Fitch Bay (Church of England)Fitch Bay (Congregational Church)
Georgeville (Church of England)Hatley (Church of England)
Hereford (Church of England)Hull (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce)
Hull (Notre-Dame-de-Lorette)Huntingville (Universalist Church)
Johnville (Church of England)Kingsbury and New Rockland (Church of England)
Lac Mégantic (Church of England)Lennoxville (Church of England)
Lingwick and Bury (Church of England)Magog (Church of England)
Marbleton (Church of England)Marieville (St-Nom-de-Marie)
Melbourne (Church of England)Milby (Church of England)
Newport (Church of England)North Hatley (Church of England)
North Hatley (Universalist Church)North Hatley (Universalist Church)
Ormstown (Methodist Church Saint Paul’s)Ormstown (Townships)
RichelieuRIchmond (Church of England)
Robinson (Church of England)Rougemont (St-Michel)
Sherbrooke (Church of England)Sherbrooke (Congregational Church)
Sherbrooke, Travelling Missionnary (Church of England)Shipton (Church of England)
Shipton (Congregational Church)Stanstead (Congregational Church)
St-Damase (St-Hyacinthe)St-Denis-sur-Richelieu
St-Dominique (Bagot)Ste-Hélène (Bagot)
St-RégisSts-Martyrs-Canadiens
St-Stanislas-de-KostkaSt-Timothée (Beauharnois)
Valleyfield & St-Louis-de-Gonzague (Presbyterian Church)Valleyfield (Sacré-Cœur)
Valleyfield (Ste-Cécile)Waterville (Church of England)
Waterville (Congregational Church)Weedon
Windsor Mills (St-Philippe)Wotton (St-Hippolyte)

Genealogically yours,

The Drouin team

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Founded in 1899 by Joseph Drouin, the Drouin Genealogical Institute preserves and digitizes Quebec’s genealogical records. Its team publishes Genealogy Quebec news and practical guides here.

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