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.
By linking baptism and burial records, the PRDH establishes the exact age of Quebec’s first centenarians. The first five were women, one of whom lived to 107.
The small number of founding immigrants still shapes Quebec last names today. Learn why one surname can come from several pioneers and how to find your own.
Why did France send so few settlers to Canada in the 17th century? As a result, the French-Canadian population grew from only about 10,000 immigrants.
How to find a Quebec obituary, online or in Genealogy Quebec’s collections, which include newspaper obituaries from Quebec and Ontario published since 1860.
Three books for your Québec genealogy research: the province’s great families, a guide to tracing your ancestors, and the origins of Québec family names.
Over a million Quebecers left the province between 1840 and 1930. Here are the resources for tracing those ancestors in the United States and elsewhere in Canada.
How the 1621-1967 Drouin Collection brings together Church and government records, and what separates religious genealogy from civil genealogy in your research.
Quebec’s marriage records help you trace family ties. Learn which tools search them and how to find a record even when a surname was spelled differently.
Under the French Regime, a quarter to a third of children died before age 1. PRDH data put figures on the mortality conditions your ancestors lived through.
How to calculate a degree of kinship by going back to the common ancestor, from first-degree links between parents and children to first cousins and beyond.
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