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.
23 historical newspapers, from The Quebec Gazette (1832 to 1836) to Midi-Presse (1954), and 30,000 memorial cards join the Miscellaneous Collections and Obituary section.
43,164 baptism, marriage and burial records from 21 Mauricie parishes, dated 1846 to 1999 and provided by the Société généalogique de Shawinigan, join the NBMDS tool.
The LAFRANCE now holds all of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials up to 1861, after adding some 652,502 records from 422 parishes in a project begun in 2015.
The February update adds 34 116 Catholic baptisms and 15 145 burials from 1850 to 1861 to the LAFRANCE. Only two parishes remain to complete this period.
The NBMDS tool now includes 83 000 marriages from Ontario parishes and about 53 000 from New England, transferred from the Planète Généalogie website.
The December update adds 22 503 Catholic baptisms and 7 086 burials recorded in Quebec between 1850 and 1861 to the LAFRANCE, along with user-suggested corrections.
The 1825-1849 family reconstructions add 787 675 individuals and 94 444 families to the PRDH-IGD, nearly doubling the number of individuals in the database.
GenealogyQuebec.com is now available in a dozen Quebec libraries. See the list and how to ask your local library to carry Genealogy Quebec and the PRDH.
New content, partly from Planète Généalogie: 34 775 files in the Kardex, 2852 Dictionnaire Jetté files and 15 913 images of parish registers in the Drouin Collection Records.
The PRDH website now lives at prdh-igd.com. The old address redirects automatically, and your saved links still lead to the same page under the new domain.
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