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.
Six historical newspapers, including Le Franco-Canadien, Le Richelieu and Le Canada-Français, have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections.
The LAFRANCE now includes 31,586 new birth, marriage and death records from parishes in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick, with a breakdown by year and location.
Over 500,000 newspaper obituaries from Quebec, Ontario and the United States have been added to the Obituary Section, indexed by first name, last name and date of death.
42,057 headstone photos have been added to the Obituary section, bringing the collection to over 712,000 stones searchable by last name and by the text on the stone.
4,208 Quebec Protestant records have been added to the LAFRANCE: baptisms and burials from Quebec City between 1768 and 1800 and from the Anglican parish of Frelighsburg.
26,392 images join the Drouin Collection Records: the religious copy of Notre-Dame de Montréal (1705 to 1792) and registers from 73 non-Catholic Montreal area parishes.
Some 56,376 headstone pictures have been added to the Obituary section, bringing the total to over 668,000 stones searchable by last name and by the text on the stone.
The Drouin Genealogical Institute has opened its official forum, open to all: technical help with the sites, genealogy questions and a place to share your discoveries.
15,409 newspaper obituaries, mainly from the Montreal and Quebec City regions, have been added, and 30,424 Drouin Collection images were re-digitized for better readability.
The Drouin Collection Records now include the 1890 Civil War Veterans census and 3,460 more New York State images, plus later St-André parish records from New Brunswick.
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