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.
47,383 images from four Quebec newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette and La Frontière de l’Abitibi, have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections.
66,522 images from the registers of 72 Catholic and Protestant parishes in Quebec have been rescanned at a resolution two to three times higher than the previous copy.
More than 40,000 marriages from 2019, 2020 and 2021, first published by the Directeur de l’État Civil, are now in the Drouin Collection Records, sorted by spouse surname.
Cemetery directories from 200 locations in Quebec and its surroundings, totalling 4,900 images, have been added to the BMD Cards with lists of the individuals buried there.
Registers from 90 non-Catholic parishes in the Outaouais and Laurentides regions, over 40,000 images up to 1979, have been added to the Drouin Collection Records.
25 historical newspapers, including Le Soleil, Le Monde Illustré and The Watchman, have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections, totalling 33,900 images.
27,153 headstones from 43 cemeteries in Quebec have been added to the Obituary section, which now holds over 730,000 indexed headstone photos from Quebec and Ontario.
The years 1915 to 1978 of Lovell’s Montreal City Directory, 150,000 new images, are now in the City Directories tool, with a guide to finding an ancestor’s address.
16,767 BMD cards from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Iberville (1900-1970) have been added, and most 1919 marriages in the LAFRANCE are now linked to their original document.
Some 5000 documents from the Société d’histoire de la Seigneurie de Monnoir are now in the BMD cards, along with how to donate your archives to the Drouin Institute.
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