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Lesson 1: Introduction to Quebec Genealogy

Why Québec records are so rich, how to read names (spelling variants, dit names) and seven principles for reliable genealogical research.

Kim Kujawski

10/23/2026

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New search features on Genealogy Quebec

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.

09/17/2026

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New: Add a spouse to your searches

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.

05/22/2026

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New: Find records faster in the Drouin Collection

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.

05/13/2026

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My Folders: Organize Your Research

Learn how to save the records you find on Genealogy Quebec into custom folders and organize them by person, family, place, parish, lineage or research project.

03/06/2026

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Canadian citizenship by descent in 2026: how to prove your lineage

Learn how to build a documented chain of records linking you to your Canadian ancestor, and how to turn your online finds into the certified copies IRCC requires.

02/26/2026

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35 parishes re-digitized + 33% off for the Holidays

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.

12/16/2025

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Ontario Genealogy Records on Genealogy Quebec: A Treasure Beyond Borders

Nearly five million Ontario records and images on Genealogy Quebec: parish and civil records, obituaries, headstone photos, the 1881 census and Drouin archives.

11/13/2025

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Just added: 140,000 new Canadian obituaries

140,000 obituaries from across Canada have been added, including 65,000 Acadian obituaries from the Viateur Robichaud Collection and 2,800 from Alberta.

10/31/2025

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New Parish Registers — and 25% Off to Access Them!

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.

09/24/2025

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New on PRDH: marriages from 1862 to 1871

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.

09/10/2025

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Quick Start Guide

The basics for getting started on Genealogy Quebec: types of ancestry, a three-step method built on marriage records, and how to use Basic and Advanced Search.

08/12/2025

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Discover the new Advanced Search on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

05/29/2025

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New Birth, Marriage and Death Records on Genealogy Quebec

Over 87,000 records have been added: La Prairie baptisms and burials, records from synagogues in Montreal, Quebec and Sherbrooke, and French-Canadian obituaries.

11/29/2024

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Collections and Records Available on Genealogy Quebec

A detailed look at each Genealogy Quebec collection: number of documents, period and regions covered, source quality rating and how to access the collection.

11/13/2024

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How to use Genealogy Quebec’s search engine

How to use the Genealogy Quebec search engine: Basic and Advanced Search, filters, reading your results and tips for finding the original record behind an entry.

09/25/2024

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227 Parishes Redigitized and 25% off on Genealogy Quebec

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.

06/11/2024

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More Drouin Collection Rescanning and 25% Discount on Genealogy Quebec

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.

03/29/2024

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Massive PRDH-IGD Update: Over a Million New Files

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.

01/31/2024

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Genealogy and LGBTQ+ families

The clues that can reveal LGBTQ+ ancestors in historical records, and the challenges of representing non-conventional families in a family tree today.

01/09/2024

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More Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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.

11/20/2023

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LAFRANCE Update: 32,000 new baptisms on Genealogy Quebec

32,000 baptism records from Acadia and Quebec have been added to the LAFRANCE, which brings together 11 million birth, marriage and death records.

11/16/2023

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Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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.

09/14/2023

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New historical documents on Genealogy Quebec!

Over 75,000 historical documents have been added, including old newspapers, the 1940-1941 Quebec Mining Directory, newspaper clippings and archival fonds.

08/13/2023

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“It’s too long”: a look at the double surname in Quebec

Since the 1981 reform, Quebec women can pass their surname on to their children. A look at the double surname and why women choose to pass it on, or not.

07/26/2023

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LAFRANCE Update: 18,500 New Records on Genealogy Quebec

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.

07/05/2023

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Choosing the Right DNA Test: A Comprehensive Guide

Autosomal or deep DNA: what each type of DNA test can reveal about your ancestors, and which one to choose depending on your genealogy research goals.

06/16/2023

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Over 100,000 new historical documents on Genealogy Quebec

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.

03/24/2023

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Growing your Family Tree: Key Documents for Genealogy

Church and civil records, obituaries, headstones and censuses: what each type of historical document contributes when you set out to grow your family tree.

03/16/2023

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Quebec Women Farmers’ Circles and their relationship with feminism

Founded in 1915, the Women Farmers’ Circles were Quebec’s first women’s association. A look at their history and their complicated relationship with feminism.

03/10/2023

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Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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.

03/08/2023

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Demystifying women’s history in Quebec

The Clio Collective’s Quebec Women: A History sheds light on the ordinary women found in our family trees. What it offers genealogists and where it falls short.

12/06/2022

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Over 65,000 obituaries added on Genealogy Quebec

More than 65,000 obituaries published online and in newspapers, covering various regions of Quebec and Canada, have been added to the Obituary Section.

11/15/2022

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German migration to New France

Hans Bernhardt, Georg Stems, Léonard Créquy, Johann Deigme: these Germanic immigrants to New France appear in the registers of Notre-Dame de Québec and Charlesbourg.

09/21/2022

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Marriages 1926-1997 update: 2.6 million individuals added

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.

09/08/2022

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The German presence in Quebec

Claude Crégheur opens his series on German immigration to Quebec: why German ancestors are hard to trace, what “German” meant, and the two main types of immigration.

08/24/2022

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Quebec death records and burials – The best online sources

The best free and paid online sources for finding a Quebec death record or burial, from the beginnings of the colony in 1621 to today, and what each one contains.

08/16/2022

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Quebec birth records and baptisms – The best free and paid sources

The best free and paid online sources for finding Quebec birth records and baptisms from 1621 to today, and what each collection or website contains.

08/10/2022

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Quebec marriage records – The best free and paid sources

The best free and paid sources for finding Quebec marriage records, from the beginnings of the colony to today, and what each collection or website contains.

07/28/2022

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New historical newspapers available on Genealogy Quebec

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.

06/13/2022

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Drouin Collection rescanning on Genealogy Quebec

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.

05/09/2022

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40,000 new marriages available on Genealogy Quebec

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.

04/11/2022

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Genealogy and women’s history

How records and family trees shed light on women’s living conditions, their undervalued roles such as midwifery, and how genealogy can serve feminist emancipation.

02/22/2022

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200 new cemetery directories on Genealogy Quebec

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.

02/21/2022

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Trace my roots – Geolocated genealogical tours

Trace my roots offers self-guided geolocated tours of your ancestors’ lands, monuments and burial sites, by bike, car or on foot, illustrated here with the Boucher family.

01/26/2022

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90 new parishes on Genealogy Quebec

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.

01/11/2022

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Genealogy and care work

What care work is, how genealogy can be a form of it when women take care of their family and its bonds, and why care can be part of feminist emancipation.

11/17/2021

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25 historical newspapers added to Genealogy Quebec

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.

11/15/2021

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Quebec’s civil registration is 400 years old

How Quebec’s civil registration evolved from 1621 parish registers to the Directeur de l’état civil, and why records after 1994 are closed to researchers.

11/01/2021

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Priests, the moral authority of New France

Parish records from the LAFRANCE show how New France priests judged, praised or scorned their parishioners, adding color well beyond the usual standard formulas.

10/13/2021

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43 new cemeteries on Genealogy Quebec

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.

10/04/2021

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Useful links

Five useful resources for Quebec and Acadian research: Genealogy Quebec, the PRDH-IGD, the Fichier Origine, Trace my roots and Acadian.org, and what each one offers.

09/23/2021

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Lovell’s Montreal City Directory now available up to 1978 on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

09/22/2021

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New birth, marriage and death records on Genealogy Quebec

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.

08/09/2021

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Women in Quebec’s toponymy

Women account for less than 10% of Quebec place names honouring a person. A review of Femmes et toponymie, de l’occultation à la parité and what it offers genealogists.

07/30/2021

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Our slave-owning ancestors, part 2

Blacksmiths, merchants and nobles: burial records show that people from every social class in New France enslaved First Nation and Black individuals, from Gaspésie to Detroit.

Cathie-Anne Dupuis

07/14/2021

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Our slave-owning ancestors, part 1

From the sisters of the Congregation to King Louis XV, parish registers show that Native and Black slaves were owned across every social class in New France.

Cathie-Anne Dupuis

07/07/2021

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Micromatt-IGD digitization service

Plans, old books, microfilms or historical archives: what Micromatt digitizes with the Drouin Institute, and how the Institute covers half the cost of some projects.

06/29/2021

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New documents on Genealogy Quebec and how to donate archives to the Drouin Institute

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.

06/14/2021

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Donating documents to the Drouin Institute

The Drouin Institute welcomes donations of genealogical and historical documents to add to the Genealogy Quebec collections. Here are the types of archives it seeks.

05/18/2021

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Six historical newspapers added to Genealogy Quebec

Six historical newspapers, including Le Franco-Canadien, Le Richelieu and Le Canada-Français, have been added to the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections.

05/17/2021

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The omission of women in family trees – Part 3

How can genealogy become more feminist? Non-sexist vocabulary, search tools sorted by women’s names, matrilineal research and diaries kept for future generations.

05/11/2021

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LAFRANCE update: 31,586 new records from Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick

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.

04/19/2021

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Quebec birth, marriage and death records

Where Quebec birth, marriage and death records come from, how to use them to trace a family line generation by generation, and where to find them online.

03/31/2021

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[Legacy Tools] Quick start guide

Getting started with Genealogy Quebec’s legacy tools: your first search in the LAFRANCE, tracing a line through marriages, and tips for searching more effectively.

03/10/2021

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The omission of women in family trees – Part 2

What are the consequences of leaving women out of family trees? A look at family identity, historical memory and the specific case of Indigenous women in Canada.

03/03/2021

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500,000 new obituaries on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

02/08/2021

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What connects the names Routhier and Lavallée?

Who were Basile Routhier and Calixa Lavallée, where did their ancestors come from, and how did they create O Canada in eight days, first performed in 1880?

01/13/2021

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The omission of women in family trees – Part 1

Why are women less present than men in genealogical research in Quebec? How surnames, marriage and historical records have made female lineages harder to trace.

12/30/2020

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42 057 new headstones on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

11/16/2020

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Slavery as witnessed through New France’s parish registers

How to find traces of Native and Black slaves in New France’s parish registers, where the word slave rarely appears and status must often be deduced from wording.

Cathie-Anne Dupuis

11/02/2020

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LAFRANCE update : New Protestant records on Genealogy Quebec

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.

10/19/2020

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26 392 parish register images added to Genealogy Quebec

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.

10/05/2020

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56 376 new headstones on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

08/31/2020

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Witnessing history through parish registers: The 1885 smallpox epidemic

The 1885 Montreal smallpox epidemic as seen in parish registers and period newspapers: the first victim, resistance to vaccination and political tensions.

08/03/2020

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Witnessing history through parish registers: Smallpox in the colonial era

How smallpox, known as petite vérole or picote, appears in Quebec’s colonial parish registers: First Nations, premature births, Acadian exiles and British soldiers.

07/07/2020

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The Genealogy Quebec Forum

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.

06/02/2020

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Witnessing history through parish registers: The cholera epidemic of 1832-1834

The 1832-1834 cholera epidemic in Quebec as seen in period newspapers and parish records: Grosse-Île, mass burials, and the toll in both cities and countryside.

04/13/2020

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Witnessing history through parish registers: The French and Indian War, Part 2

From the Battle of the Plains of Abraham to the 1760 capitulation, what parish registers reveal about the Conquest and the new settlers it brought to Quebec.

02/21/2020

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Witnessing history through parish registers: The French and Indian War, Part 1

What parish registers reveal about the French and Indian War before the Plains of Abraham: French soldiers, First Nations allies and villages attacked in 1759.

02/05/2020

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15,409 newspaper obituaries added and 30,424 Drouin Collection images re-digitized on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

12/09/2019

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From Pascal to Noël: The impact of the calendar on your ancestors’ names

Why so many ancestors named Noël, Pascal or Toussaint? Quebec baptisms from 1621 to 1849 show how the religious calendar shaped the names given to children.

10/28/2019

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New records from New Brunswick and the State of New York now available on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

09/30/2019

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23 historical newspapers and 30 000 memorial cards were added to Genealogy Quebec’s collections!

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.

09/16/2019

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Understanding the linguistic variation in your ancestors’ names

Guyon became Dion and Hervé became Harvey: why your ancestors’ first and last names vary in the archives, and how to track down every mention of them.

08/19/2019

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BMD Cards (Baptisms, Marriages, Burials)

What the BMD Cards tool contains (Loiselle File, Kardex, Fonds Fabien, adoptions and more), how the cards are sorted, and how to find the original record.

07/30/2019

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The PRDH website is celebrating its 20th anniversary!

The PRDH website, launched in 1999 by the Université de Montréal, turned 20. Learn how its population register was built and how it was extended to 1849.

07/09/2019

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43 164 baptism, marriage and burial records have been added to the NBMDS tool on GenealogyQuebec.com!

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.

06/24/2019

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French-Canadian “dit names” and nicknames

French-Canadian dit names can replace an ancestor’s surname from one record to the next. Learn where they come from and how to search for them without missing records.

06/05/2019

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The LAFRANCE now contains ALL of Quebec’s Catholic baptisms and burials up to 1861!

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.

04/15/2019

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50 000 new baptism and burial records added to the LAFRANCE on Genealogy Quebec

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.

02/18/2019

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83 000 Ontario marriages and 53 300 marriages from the United States have been added to Genealogy Quebec

The NBMDS tool now includes 83 000 marriages from Ontario parishes and about 53 000 from New England, transferred from the Planète Généalogie website.

02/08/2019

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Genealogy Quebec user guide

How to subscribe to Genealogy Quebec, manage your subscription, recover your password, start your research and ask the Expert Help team a specific question.

01/22/2019

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[Legacy Tool] Censuses (1881-1901 Quebec and Ontario)

The legacy Census 1881-1901 tool indexes 5,012,907 individuals from the 1881 and 1901 Quebec censuses and the 1881 Ontario census, searchable by every census field.

01/10/2019

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30 000 baptism and burial records added to the LAFRANCE

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.

12/12/2018

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Acadian genealogy – Researching your Acadian ancestors

Resources for tracing your Acadian ancestors: Acadian registers in the Drouin Collection, the Acadia – Families database and free sites such as Genealogie-Acadienne.net.

11/21/2018

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Massive PRDH-IGD update, now nearly twice as many individuals in the database!

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.

09/06/2018

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What is Genealogy Quebec?

Genealogy Quebec brings together the Drouin Institute’s collections: over 100 million images and documents covering Quebec and parts of Ontario, the US and Acadia.

08/17/2018

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What your ancestors can tell you about your life expectancy

Why do women dominate the list of native-born French-Canadians who reached age 97 before 1850? Biological factors, heredity and the remarkable Lizotte family.

08/16/2018

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Genealogy Quebec, now in a library near you!

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.

08/03/2018

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How far back can you research your ancestry in Quebec?

Quebec’s oldest surviving parish records date from 1621. Learn how to trace your line back to your family’s first immigrant, then go further with the Fichier Origine.

06/21/2018

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The King’s Daughters and the PRDH database

Who the King’s Daughters who came to New France between 1663 and 1673 were, and how the PRDH-IGD database can show whether one of them is among your ancestors.

05/09/2018

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The first French-Canadian centenarians in Quebec

By linking baptism and burial records, the PRDH establishes the exact age of Quebec’s first centenarians. The first five were women, one of whom lived to 107.

04/10/2018

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Even More New Content on Genealogy Quebec!

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.

03/22/2018

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Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD: the similarities, differences, and why you should subscribe to both

Genealogy Quebec and PRDH-IGD are two Drouin Institute research websites. Here is what each one contains and the exclusive features offered to members of both.

03/09/2018

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The PRDH’s Web Address Has Changed!

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.

03/07/2018

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Last names in Quebec: the influence of the pioneers

The small number of founding immigrants still shapes Quebec last names today. Learn why one surname can come from several pioneers and how to find your own.

02/27/2018

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Immigration from Old to New France

Why did France send so few settlers to Canada in the 17th century? As a result, the French-Canadian population grew from only about 10,000 immigrants.

02/14/2018

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Quebec obituaries

How to find a Quebec obituary, online or in Genealogy Quebec’s collections, which include newspaper obituaries from Quebec and Ontario published since 1860.

01/29/2018

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City directories and phonebooks

The City directories tool offers digitized directories from Quebec and Ontario, including Montreal’s Lovell. Learn how they are organized and what each section contains.

01/24/2018

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Books on Family Genealogy in Québec : 3 Essentials to Discover

Three books for your Québec genealogy research: the province’s great families, a guide to tracing your ancestors, and the origins of Québec family names.

01/23/2018

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Genealogy Outside of Québec : How to Find Your Québécois Ancestors

Over a million Quebecers left the province between 1840 and 1930. Here are the resources for tracing those ancestors in the United States and elsewhere in Canada.

01/23/2018

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The 1621-1967 Drouin Collection : Differentiating Religious and Civil Genealogy

How the 1621-1967 Drouin Collection brings together Church and government records, and what separates religious genealogy from civil genealogy in your research.

01/06/2018

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Quebec Marriage Records Search : Key to Tracing Your Genealogy

Quebec’s marriage records help you trace family ties. Learn which tools search them and how to find a record even when a surname was spelled differently.

01/06/2018

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Establishing your ancestry and finding your ancestors using Genealogy Quebec

A three-step method for tracing your line from marriage to marriage with the LAFRANCE, shown through an example that leads back to a first immigrant in 1668.

12/19/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies

The Drouin Institute’s Family Genealogies bring together 660 genealogies produced in the 20th century. See how to search their marriages and browse their folders.

11/30/2017

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The Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections

Archival fonds, old newspapers, the Dictionnaire Jetté, the original PRDH and land records: a tour of the folders in the Drouin Institute’s Miscellaneous Collections.

11/30/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Drouin Institute’s Great collections

The Men and Women series, the Histor file and other directories in the Drouin Great Collections, and how to find the original record of a listed marriage.

11/30/2017

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Quebec mortality rate under the French regime

Under the French Regime, a quarter to a third of children died before age 1. PRDH data put figures on the mortality conditions your ancestors lived through.

11/29/2017

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Drouin Institute Acquires Planète Généalogie, New Content on Genealogy Quebec!

The Drouin Institute acquires Planète Généalogie and its 29 million-plus images and files. First transfers: 21 481 parish register images and 75 000 Great Collections images.

11/16/2017

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Relationships with Family : Calculating and Understanding the Different Degrees of Kinship

How to calculate a degree of kinship by going back to the common ancestor, from first-degree links between parents and children to first cousins and beyond.

11/16/2017

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Founding Families of Québec : A History Lesson on the Origins of Our Ancestors

From Louis Hébert to the families Robert Giffard recruited, learn who Québec’s founding families were and how they settled its cities and villages.

11/16/2017

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Genealogy and surnames : What Your Name Says About your Family’s History?

Professions, places of origin, settlers from France and Great Britain: learn where Québec surnames come from and how to trace the history of your own.

11/05/2017

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Parish Registers : A Reliable Resource for Tracking Down Your Ancestors

Baptisms, marriages and burials: learn what Québec’s parish registers contain, why they are reliable and where you can consult them to trace your ancestors.

11/05/2017

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What is PRDH-IGD?

PRDH-IGD lists nearly 3.2 million Catholic records from Quebec between 1621 and 1861 and links each person to their family. See how to navigate its files.

10/19/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Acadia – Families collection

The Acadia – Families tool holds 171,246 family files based on original Acadian records. Learn what they contain, the period covered and how to read them.

10/09/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Postcards collection

The Postcards tool holds around 256,000 postcards from Quebec and the surrounding area, front and back, indexed by the names of the sender and the recipient.

10/06/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Notarized documents collection

The Notarized documents tool holds 83,000 Quebec notarized documents from the 19th and 20th centuries, indexed by type, names, notary, date and place, with digitized originals.

10/06/2017

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Twenty five children in 27 years: A look at our ancestors’ fertility

Married at 16 in Sorel in 1778, Josephe Coron Dauphinais had 25 children in 27 years, and only five reached adulthood. A real case showing how fertile our ancestors were.

10/03/2017

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[Legacy Tool] The Connolly File (births, marriages, deaths)

The Connolly File indexes 6,839,262 baptism, marriage and burial records from Quebec and part of the US, from 1621 to today. Learn how to search it and find the original record.

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[Legacy Tool] The NBMDS tool (births, marriages, deaths)

The NBMDS tool indexes over 1.2 million baptism, marriage and burial records, mostly from Quebec. See which regions it covers, how to search it and how to find originals.

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[Legacy Tool] The Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997 collection

Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997 gathers Quebec marriage and death forms from all religious denominations. Learn how to trace the matching parish record in the Drouin Collection.

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[Legacy Tool] The Obituary section

The Obituary section brings together Internet and newspaper obituaries, memorial cards and tombstones. See what each subsection holds and how to search it effectively.

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[Legacy Tool] The LAFRANCE (Births, marriages, deaths)

The LAFRANCE holds over 10,940,000 records from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia and the United States. Learn how its three search engines, name tools and search tips work.

10/01/2017

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The Drouin Collection

The Drouin Collection holds images of Quebec’s parish registers from 1621 to the 1940s, along with many other documents. Here is what each of its folders contains.

10/01/2017

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Is It Possible to Find Your Ancestors as an Adopted Child?

Finding your biological roots as an adopted person is possible, but the steps differ depending on whether you were adopted in Québec or abroad. Here is where to turn.

09/18/2017

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How to Explain a Family Tree to Your Child

Start with relatives they know, tell stories about ancestors and turn the tree into a detective game. Simple tips to help your child understand their family tree.

09/18/2017

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Ancestry family tree: Differences Between Ascending and Descending Genealogy

Ascending genealogy starts from you and traces your ancestors; descending genealogy starts from an ancestor and follows their line. Learn the differences and how to choose.

08/11/2017

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7 Resources to Use to Find a Baptismal Record

LaFRANCE, the Drouin Collection, the Little BMDs, the Connolly File, genealogical societies, BANQ and LAC: seven resources for finding a baptismal record in Québec and beyond.

08/11/2017

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Filling out a Family Tree: Where Do You Start Your Research?

Question your relatives, gather old family papers, consult church records and organize your data: the first steps to take when you start filling out a family tree.

08/03/2017

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Do You Need to Study Genealogy to Make a Career out of It?

Genealogy isn’t taught in Québec, but there are university programs in France, workshops in Québec and three certified titles to have your skills recognized.

08/03/2017