History, families and genealogical curiosities from Quebec and beyond.
Learn how to build a documented chain of records linking you to your Canadian ancestor, and how to turn your online finds into the certified copies IRCC requires.
Nearly five million Ontario records and images on Genealogy Quebec: parish and civil records, obituaries, headstone photos, the 1881 census and Drouin archives.
The clues that can reveal LGBTQ+ ancestors in historical records, and the challenges of representing non-conventional families in a family tree today.
Since the 1981 reform, Quebec women can pass their surname on to their children. A look at the double surname and why women choose to pass it on, or not.
Autosomal or deep DNA: what each type of DNA test can reveal about your ancestors, and which one to choose depending on your genealogy research goals.
Church and civil records, obituaries, headstones and censuses: what each type of historical document contributes when you set out to grow your family tree.
Founded in 1915, the Women Farmers’ Circles were Quebec’s first women’s association. A look at their history and their complicated relationship with feminism.
The Clio Collective’s Quebec Women: A History sheds light on the ordinary women found in our family trees. What it offers genealogists and where it falls short.
Hans Bernhardt, Georg Stems, Léonard Créquy, Johann Deigme: these Germanic immigrants to New France appear in the registers of Notre-Dame de Québec and Charlesbourg.
Claude Crégheur opens his series on German immigration to Quebec: why German ancestors are hard to trace, what “German” meant, and the two main types of immigration.
The best free and paid online sources for finding a Quebec death record or burial, from the beginnings of the colony in 1621 to today, and what each one contains.
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