83,000 images from the registers of 72 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity. To this day, over 1.3 million Drouin collection images have been rescanned and are available exclusively on Genealogy Quebec. Comparison between the old and new versions of the Drouin Collection’s images. Source: Drouin Collection Records, GenealogyQuebec.com The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous copy, which ensures great legibility. Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers ..read more

It is our great pleasure to announce one of the most important updates ever made to PRDH-IGD! A subscription to PRDH-IGD.com will now give you access to all French-Canadian individuals and families who lived in Quebec from the very beginnings of the French colony to 1861! This massive update adds over a decade of coverage to the database, and represents the addition of 738,696 vital records, 544,537 individuals and 94,264 families. Comparison between François Ladouceur and Esther Meunier’s Family File before and after&n ..read more

Over 50,000 historical documents have been added to the Drouin Miscellaneous Collections, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers. The Drouin Miscellaneous Collections contain an assortment of images, documents, books, photos and directories of historical and genealogical interest. You can browse this tool at this address. Trace your ancestors with tens of millions of genealogical records by subscribing to Genealogy Quebec today! Clarence Cross collection – Family files 37,000 family files from Eastern Ontario, containing in ..read more

Increasingly, we hear about family models that diverge from heterosexual and cisgender1 norms. The rights of LGBTQ+ individuals to form a family (and to access various methods allowing them to have children) are indeed recent, and the political events of the last few months demonstrate that these rights are still precarious. Certain groups, often associated with the far-right, seek to challenge the rights of queer2 individuals, especially those who are transgender (Massoud, 2023; Beaulieu-Kratchanov, 2023). These groups claim an international fight against the “homosexual agenda” and consider ..read more

80,000 images from the registers of 64 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity. To this day, over 1,200,000 images from the Drouin collection have been rescanned on the website. Comparison between the old and new versions of the Drouin Collection’s images. Source: Drouin Collection Records, GenealogyQuebec.com The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous version, which ensures great legibility. Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as ..read more

80,000 images from the registers of 60 Quebec parishes have been rescanned on Genealogy Quebec to improve their clarity. To this day, over a million images from the Drouin collection have been rescanned on the website. Rescanned images. Source: Drouin Collection Records, GenealogyQuebec.com The resolution of these new images is two to three times higher than that of the previous version, which ensures great legibility. Browse all of Quebec’s parish registers as well as millions of historical documents by subscribing to Genealogy ..read more

Over 75,000 historical documents have been added to Genealogy Quebec‘s collections. These include newspapers, directories, obituaries and other documents of historical and genealogical interest. Trace your ancestors and discover your family history with tens of millions of historical documents on Genealogy Quebec today! Here is a more detailed overview of the documents added with this update. Historical newspapers (11,239 documents) L’Artisan (Montréal), magazine of the insurance company Société des Artisans Canadiens-Français from 1905 to ..read more

Over 110,000 birth, marriage and death cards have been added to the BMD Cards collection, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers. These are non-Catholic births, marriages and deaths from the St-François judicial district, which encompasses most of the Eastern Townships. They can be consulted in the BMS non-catholique, district St-François and Sépultures non-catholiques, district de Huntingdon folders, which can be found in the Fiches BMS (villes) folder at this address. You can browse the BMD cards&nb ..read more

When one is interested in one’s ancestry and reconstructs a lineage through genealogical research, one also sees the history of the transmission of family name(s). This may seem insignificant to us, because for a long time this history was obvious: the question of the transmission of the family name did not really arise, since the family name of the father was systematically given to the children. There was no need to think about it.  But in 1981, the reform of the civil code, and more precisely of family law, allowed Quebec women to give their family name to their children. Suddenly, th ..read more

18,500 new baptism, marriage and burial records are now available in the LAFRANCE, one of 15 tools available to Genealogy Quebec subscribers. These new records are from Acadia as well as Protestant parishes in Quebec. Burial record of John Alexander Graham in Montreal, added in the latest LAFRANCE update. Source: Record 13332939, LAFRANCE, GenealogyQuebec.com The LAFRANCE contains close to 11 million birth, marriage and death records from Quebec, Ontario, Acadia and the United States. With it, you’ll be able to trace your ..read more