Genealogy Quebec news: new collections, new search features and announcements from the Institute.
Genealogy Quebec’s advanced search now offers search by mention, exact, similar or extended matching for each person, collection selection and priority for original documents.
Advanced Search now lets you add the spouse of the person you are looking for, helping the engine target records tied to a couple, such as their marriage or their children.
A new feature lets you search for a parish, city, year or surname in folder and file names across Genealogy Quebec’s folder-based collections, including the Drouin Collection.
16,000 images from the registers of 35 parishes in Quebec and Acadia have been re-digitized in high definition, including Caraquet, Memramcook, Shippagan and Tracadie.
140,000 obituaries from across Canada have been added, including 65,000 Acadian obituaries from the Viateur Robichaud Collection and 2,800 from Alberta.
91,000 new images from the registers of 39 parishes in the Cornwall region of Ontario, spanning the 18th century to the 1990s, are now in the Drouin Collection Records.
Over 75,000 Catholic marriage records from Quebec, 1862 to 1871, are now on PRDH-IGD, and more than 85% of the spouses now have their own family file.
Advanced Search now lets you add birth, marriage, death, residence and publication events to your queries. Here is how to turn it on and where to send feedback.
Over 87,000 records have been added: La Prairie baptisms and burials, records from synagogues in Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke, and French-Canadian obituaries.
51,000 images from the registers of 227 Quebec parishes have been rescanned at a resolution two to three times higher than the previous copy, for clearer reading.
83,000 images from the registers of 72 Quebec parishes have been rescanned, bringing the total of rescanned Drouin Collection images to over 1.3 million.
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