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Research

Archives of the Notaries of Quebec covering 1800s-1900s    
Archives of the Notaries of Quebec from origin to 1935    The official archives of Quebec notaries (grouped together in what are called the “registries” of notaries) include all the acts they write during their professional life. These documents affect many aspects of social activity: family life (marriage contracts, wills, inventories after death, donations, guardianship and guardianship), land issues (sales, concession contracts, leases) and other subjects of economic interest. (receipts, obligations). These are unique sources which are of great interest for historical and genealogical research.

Catalog of documentary resources at the Quebec Genealogy Society .... The articles are indexed by subject, author and title in the fields of genealogy, history and heraldry.    Articles from the Quebec Genealogy Society

Global Genealogy for Quebec     The links in this section are to useful, searchable online genealogical and historical information for those researching their Quebec roots. Most links are free online resources ( free ) however there are also links to some commercial resources ($) that were recommended by satisfied users.
Historical Canadian Newspapers Online - Many of them    Links to historical Canadian newspapers that are freely available on the Internet.

Quebec Obituaries from 1999 and up Jul 2015    This database contains 1,685,650 obituaries beginning in 1999 from more than 250 internet sources.
QUEBEC PARISHES by Alpha, Chronological, Region & Diocese - Click on ParishesParroises    Baptisms, marriages, burials, censuses and parishes in Quebec

ROOTSWEB - Search the QUEBEC RESEARCH LIST Archives     Ancestry.com webpage set for searches on "QUEBEC-RESEARCH".
The NOBILITY in New France - 17th, 18th and 19th centuries - 187 pages   
Acadian and French Canadian Genealogy by John P.DuLong     Web site dedicated to French genealogical research focused primarily on Acadian (also known as Cajun) and French Canadian genealogical research, but includes Creole, Métis, Huguenot, Foreign French, French, Belgian, and Swiss research as well.
Canada - France Archives Online    
Churches of Quebec in Photos     Welcome to the website of the Quebec Inventory of worship, a project of the Council of the religious heritage of Québec, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Communications. This site provides access to a fact sheet and photographs for each of the inventoried buildings or places of worship of different religious traditions erected before 1975. To access photographs or information on places of worship of the inventory, you can use one of our three search engines.
Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne - Hire an Expert    Website offers search service called Histoquest and they will do extensive genealogical searches for a fee.
Drouin Institute Microfilms - Good list of Notaries    The collection of 2,366 microfilms of the Drouin Collection contains vital records Catholics and other denominations of Quebec, from its origins to 19401942 for all until August 1968 for Hull and Gatineau, Ontario until June 1968 Ottawa, Acadia and the United States; The collection also includes microfilm notaries and various documents.
Marlene Simmons - Quebec and Eastern Townships Page    Quebec genealogy poses some interesting problems, especially in the Eastern Townships that were largely settledby English-speaking people whose roots go back into the New England states. In an effort to help clear up some of these problems, the author indexed over 630,000 church, cemetery, census, and newspaper articles. To view the indexing, click on the Churches Indexed link at the top of the page.
Monteregie - [South of Montreal] Links to Cities, Libraries,Societies, Cultural Institutions etc    Links to websites re: cities, libraries, societies and cultural institutions.
Monteregie - [South of Montreal] Links to Cities, Libraries,Societies, Cultural Institutions etc    Montérégie is an administrative region in southwest Québec. This webpage provides information about the cities and weblinks andor email addresses for further research.
Montreal 1666 Census     1666 Census listing the 627 inhabitants at that time and their occupations (in French). A key at the bottom of the census list gives the English translation of the occupations.
NEHGS - French Canadian Genealogy Guide   
PRDH Online Includes reconstituted families up to 1799    Computerized population register, consisting of biographical records of all individuals of European origin who lived in the St. Lawrence Valley. Paid Subscription Website.
Quebec to United States SURNAME CHANGES    List of French surnames cross-walked to the names adopted after migration to the US
Tanguay Dictionaire - Online     Genealogical Dictionary, Canadian families
Wikipedia - Notable Franco-Americans     List of notable French Americans by occupation, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

Database

Index of L'Ancetres 1974-2011 the Journal of the Société de généalogie de Québec   
Currently 1,597 articles are compiled in a database, from number 1 in 1974 to number 296 in 2011. The main purpose
of the Analytical Index is to help the researcher. Thus it first groups together the articles relating to the
genealogy and regional history.

Search the MIGRATIONS DATABASE - All in French and covering Carignan Regiment, Ships, Genealogies, Fille du Roi and Marins Mar 2019    This site is intended to provide you with free information on your ancestors thanks to the many volunteers on both sides of the Atlantic.

ADHEMAR Database of Montreal Properties & Owners 1642 to 1805   
Changes in both the counties, villages and settlements of Quebec    The following database contains information on villages and communities where families settled in Lower Canada and Quebec from 1760 onward. This document will assist researchers seeking to find the names ( past and current ) of these settlements.
Eastern Townships BMD's - 1831 to 1878 Sherbrooke Newspapers    Cemetery records for Quebec organized by historical county.
Francogene Database by Denis Beauregard     - His Total DB is on our Computers
Hemmingford,Quebec Cemetery Records     Consists of a database of over 6,000 records from 20 area cemeteries.
Marriage, baptism and burial records of St. Luce of Frenchville, Maine    The Ste Luce Church Registers. The Fr. Henri Dionne years, 1843-1860
The following links describe the databases and transcriptions extracted from the Ste Luce registers:
•Baptisms, January 1843 - January 1860
•Marriages, January 1843 - January 1860
•Burials, January 1843 - January 1860
•Abjurations
•Confirmations, August 1844 & July 1850
•1858 parish censuses, December 1857 - January 1858

Parchemin Info from Pierre Benoit    Notarial database of old Québec (1635-1784)
Parchment is an almost complete inventory of notarial minutes of an entire people, from its origins until 1784.
From 1635 until 1784, the end of the French regime, all deeds: marriage contracts, sales, wills, probate inventories, etc. have been fully and carefully stripped, essentially, verified and entered on computer format.

Quebec Cemeteries    Allows for search by county or by surname.
Search about 200 Protestant Churches in Quebec    Search births, marriage and death records.
Voyageurs (In English - Travellers) Database     Allows you to search the database using the following fields: Name; Occupation; Parish; Destinations andor Date of Contract.

DNA

French Heritage DNA Project    The French-Canadian Heritage Society of California and the Southern California Genealogical Society are proud to announce the French Heritage DNA Project which will include anyone with French heritage including but not limited to French, French-Canadian, Acadian, Cajun, Metis, and all our other cousins. This project is dedicated to the several hundred founding ancestors who came primarily from France in the 17th century and from whom most of us with French-Canadian heritage descend.
Jacques Beaugrand Website - Very Interesting    Site, written in French, with information about and to promote DNA genealogy.

History

The Jesuit Relations - Online     This site contains the entire English translation of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites-published by The Burrows Brothers Co. throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume.
1837-38 The Patriot Rebellion - Quebecers Prosecuted, Exiled and Hung    List of the 108 Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838–39

ARCHIVE of the Monastery of the Augustines in Quebec    For more than 375 years, the Augustinians were the guardians of unsuspected treasures. Thanks to this heritage preserved in the archives center and in the museum reserve, the Monastery is a unique place of memory as well as an exceptional research center for discovering the history of the Augustines and that of Quebec society.

Carignan Regiment - Filles du Roi - Acadia - Ships and much more    Info on the Carngnan regimnet, Filles du roy and Filles a marier.


French Voyageurs Reenactment - 2 min (VIDEO)    YOU TUBE VIDEO - lives and task of the voyageurs
New France Archives Online    In 2004, to mark the 400th anniversary of the French presence in North America, France and Canada re-created their singular adventure and sparked new interest in their shared history by putting documents online reproduced in their entirety using the latest digitization technologies, and making them accessible to a broad public.

Old Montreal - Info of the 75 Streets of Old Montreal - Use Chrome Browser to translate    Old Montreal has some 75 streets, squares or docks, the oldest of which were opened more than three hundred years ago. Here you will find a list of all public spaces, presented in alphabetical order. You can also create a smaller list or one sorted by opening date or by type of route.

QUEBEC FRENCH LANGUAGE info - Oct 2019    Etiology of the French language as spoken in Quebec
Register of the Patients of Hospital of Quebec City 1689-1760 - Search using FIND    A record of more than 42,000 patient admissions recorded by the
nuns of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec between June 1, 1689 and October 10, 1760.

SEARCH THE ARCHIVES OF NEW FRANCE View the original letters and documents of the King, Governors, Generals etc    In 2004, France and Canada re-created their singular adventure and shared history by put documents online reproduced in their entirety using the latest digitization technologies, making them accessible to a broad public.

Ships and Passengers that came to New France   
The Founding Families of New France in the Paris Archives by Jean-Paul Macouin - An Online book of references to Parisian notary records for pioneers of New France    An Online book of references to Parisian notary records for pioneers of New France
The Great Recruitment of 1653 and 1654    Under the leadership of Jeanne Mance , Maisonneuve happening in France in 1651 recruit settlers soldiers. A hundred men and a dozen women undertake to cross

Angelique and the Burning of Montreal - Denyse Beaugrand-Champagne     This site will take you back to the Montréal of 1734 and its daily way of life. You will discover how a colonial city functioned, its people, its housing and its constant fear of fires.
Chambly Historical Society - 1681 and 1831 Census and much information; St Mathias 1765     History of Fort Chambly.
French Canada History Websites    
Mississquoi Museum -Contains many maps of the area    Missisquoi Museum features exhibitions and education programmes which explore the many individuals and events that contributed to the historic development of Missisquoi County.
NosOrigines Database - Great for the 1600s and 1700s    History of church records and civil status & other resources.

Quebec History & US Migrations    Texts, readings documents and other information re: the immigration history of Canada.
Regiment de Meuron    This list consists of names of soldiers and officers of the Meuron regiment present in Lower Canada between 1813 and 1816 only.

The Raid On Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704    Raid On Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704. The website includes stories told from all sides.
Wikipedia Franco American    Wikipedia entry describing historical and current information about Americans of french descent.

Maps

Map of the Charlesbourg Seigneury    Image of this map

Boucherville Map of 1724    Can download map through SCRIBD service.
Maps    Some online cadastral maps

Quebec INFOLOT    Click on Acces Gratuit & accept license & Je Souhaite & after entering the Lot Number, the land is displayed

Quebec Land Registry website    A complex website. You need to Logon with Credit Card info; transactions are $1.00 US

Searchable map of the old Quebec Counties     Page includes historical maps of old Quebec counties. You can move your mouse over the maps to find additional information about the original owners (marriagesoccupationstransfers). Some maps have web links to relevant pages with more information.
Use Google Maps to search an area of Quebec    In the Satellite view you can also look at buildings and get fairly accurate addresses

Forum

Maple Stars and Stripes PODCASTS - AUDIO blogs for French Canadian research Oct 2014    Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast was created as a way to share tips and tricks that might make it easier to research your French-Canadian family here in America as well as to trace them back in Quebec. We’ll discuss ways to make it easier to move around in French-language records, especially if you’re not a native French speaker, as well as take a look at different record groups, repositories, history, geography, culture, and methodology particular to French-Canadian genealogy.

Library

Library and Archives Canada - Ancestor Search - Genealogy & Family History - Immigration - Grosse Iles - and more Sept 2015   
Bibliotheque & National Archives of Quebec    National Library and Archives of Quebec
Bibliotheque & National Archives of Quebec     Search the Pistard Archives - English - READ ONLY
Bibliotheque & National Archives of Quebec     Non-Catholic BMD in the Montreal area etc...
Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadian and Quebec Paintings etc    In March 2002, with the assistance of funds from the Government of Canada, Library and Archives Canada acquired more than 4,000 works of art in a single purchase from one private collector—Mr. Peter Winkworth. This acquisition is one of the largest ever made by the federal government; it is certainly the largest single purchase ever undertaken on behalf of Library and Archives Canada.

Bibliotheque & National Archives of Quebec     Search the Pistard Archives by SURNAME - Do SEARCH here
Eastern Townships Resource Center -     Website of the Eastern Townships Resource Centre located at Bishop’s University (2600 College Street, Sherbrooke, Quebec).

Montreal Libraries - Catalog of Resources    

General

Find Your Ancestors Notary Documents with new Ancestry Index    In a joint news release issued in French on Friday to announce the online release of Quebec notary Index records on Ancestry, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and Ancestry shared some of the statistics represented now in the collection.

French Canadian Disease prompts US warning    Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)Some U.S. doctors are urging patients to get tested for a potentially deadly genetic disease they say was passed down from French-Canadian forefathers.familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)

French Canadian Genetic Diseases - Pancreatitis, Cholesterol, Triglycerides    A new study finds that people of French-Canadian descent are more likely to have a genetic disease called Familial Chylomicronemia Syndrome, or FCS. This disease puts them at greater risk for acute pancreatitis – a painful, sometimes fatal condition. Researchers say the study shows the need for more and better screening – and effective treatment.

Genealogy Ensemble - Genealogy Together    We are a group of friends in Montreal, Quebec who meet on a regular basis to discuss our genealogy research and brick walls. Together, we offer suggestions and share ideas. We tell stories and talk about everything from new websites, books, local archival centres, genealogy societies, and conferences to new technology, and genealogical proof standards. Our ancestors came from Canada, the British Isles, France, Scandinavia, the United States, Italy, and many other countries.

Maison Gabriel    Info re visiting Maison Saint-Gabriel

Marcel Fournier    Marcel Fournier presents in his personal pages his activities in the fields of history and genealogy as well as a list of his main publications.

McCord Museum Pics of Old Montreal    McCord Museum Collection of prints, paintings, watercolors, ink on papers


OUR FRENCH CANADIAN ANCESTORS by Thomas Laforest - Index of the 30 Volumes    We want to share our discussions with you. By doing so and working together, we hope to help you discover your ancestors.

Eastern Townships BMD's - 1831 to 1878 Sherbrooke Newspapers   
Francogene Database of Denis Beauregard    The entire database is on our computers at the library.
French and Québécois Cultural Connections - Frances Chevalier PhD    List of helpful links for research.
How to Get Notary Records from Montreal    Vermont French Canadian Genealogical Society HANDOUT

Class taught on 31 October 2015 by John Fisher-Poissant
Library and National Archives, Quebec (BANQ)    This organization is the primary government repository for genealogical (and other historical) records.
Surveyor General of Québec    Click CONSULTER & accept license & Keep zooming into the area you are searching; the final area has Lot Number

Vermont French-Canadian Genealogy Society    Membership organization specializing in French-Canadian genealogy, offering library and research facilities.