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.
PRDH-IGD now covers all French-Canadian individuals and families who lived in Quebec up to 1861, adding 738,696 records, 544,537 individuals and 94,264 families.
50,000 images from the registers of 64 Quebec parishes have been rescanned at two to three times the resolution of the previous version, for much clearer reading.
32,000 baptism records from Acadia and Quebec have been added to the LAFRANCE, which brings together 11 million birth, marriage and death records.
80,000 images from the registers of 60 Quebec parishes have been rescanned, bringing the total of rescanned Drouin Collection images to over a million.
Over 75,000 historical documents have been added, including old newspapers, the 1940-1941 Quebec Mining Directory, newspaper clippings and archival fonds.
18,500 baptism, marriage and burial records from Acadia and Protestant parishes in Quebec have been added to the LAFRANCE, which holds close to 11 million records.
Over 100,000 images have been added to the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections, including the Écho Abitibien from 1950 to 1980, the Fonds André Hurtubise and Fonds Philippe Beaudry.
135,000 images from the registers of 158 Catholic and Protestant parishes in Quebec have been rescanned at a resolution two to three times higher than the previous copy.
More than 65,000 obituaries published online and in newspapers, covering various regions of Quebec and Canada, have been added to the Obituary Section.
Around 2.6 million parents of the spouses, named in the 1926 forms and in those from 1975 to 1993, have been added to the index of the Marriages 1926-1997 collection.
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