An overview of Genealogy Quebec’s historical collections and tools: Drouin registers, LAFRANCE, obituaries and more.
Getting started with Genealogy Quebec’s legacy tools: your first search in the LAFRANCE, tracing a line through marriages, and tips for searching more effectively.
The legacy Census 1881-1901 tool indexes 5,012,907 individuals from the 1881 and 1901 Quebec censuses and the 1881 Ontario census, searchable by every census field.
A three-step method for tracing your line from marriage to marriage with the LAFRANCE, shown through an example that leads back to a first immigrant in 1668.
The Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies bring together 660 genealogies produced in the 20th century. See how to search their marriages and browse their folders.
The Men and Women series, the Histor file and other directories in the Drouin Great Collections, and how to find the original record of a listed marriage.
The Acadia – Families tool holds 171,246 family files based on original Acadian records. Learn what they contain, the period covered and how to read them.
The Postcards tool holds around 256,000 postcards from Quebec and the surrounding area, front and back, indexed by the names of the sender and the recipient.
The Notarized documents tool holds 83,000 Quebec notarized documents from the 19th and 20th centuries, indexed by type, names, notary, date and place, with digitized originals.
The Connolly File indexes 6,839,262 baptism, marriage and burial records from Quebec and part of the US, from 1621 to today. Learn how to search it and find the original record.
The NBMDS tool indexes over 1.2 million baptism, marriage and burial records, mostly from Quebec. See which regions it covers, how to search it and how to find originals.
Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997 gathers Quebec marriage and death forms from all religious denominations. Learn how to trace the matching parish record in the Drouin Collection.
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