Category Archives: Quebec

Pope Leo XIV related to Justin Bieber, Pierre and Justin Trudeau, and Madonna

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Gail Dever

Thanks to researchers at American Ancestors and the Cuban Genealogy Club of Miami, Pope Leo XIV’s ancestry can be traced as far back as the early 1500s to Louis Boucher de Grandpré, who was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Louis was … Continue reading →

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Irish Ambassador to Canada visits historic immigration depot, Grosse-Île, in Quebec

Posted on June 13, 2025 by Gail Dever

The Irish Ambassador to Canada John Concannon posted on X yesterday that he had visited Grosse-Île in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. The island was the site of an immigration depot which housed predominantly Irish immigrants coming to Canada … Continue reading →

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MesAïeux/YourFolks website from Quebec moving soon to MyHeritage

Posted on April 13, 2025 by Gail Dever

At the end of this month, MesAïeux.com, a bilingual family history website and service specializing in French Canadian genealogy, will migrate to MyHeritage’s website. Last September, MyHeritage announced it had acquired MesAïeux. Founded in 2004 and based in Quebec City, MesAïeux.com … Continue reading →

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Ancestry updates Quebec’s Drouin Collection of baptisms, marriage and burial records

Posted on January 19, 2025 by Gail Dever

On Thursday, Ancestry updated their index of the Drouin Collection of baptisms, marriages and burials in Quebec, from 1621 to 1941. With more than 41 million records, this is an essential collection to research if your relatives lived in Quebec. … Continue reading →

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Stanley Diamond, founder of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, passes away

Posted on December 22, 2024 by Gail Dever

Stanley Diamond, the founding president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, passed away on December 18. He was 91 years old. He was also the founder and executive director of Jewish Records Indexing – Poland, a searchable online database. Many … Continue reading →

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Presentations on YouTube about Irish heritage in Quebec City

Posted on December 5, 2024 by Gail Dever

Irish Heritage Quebec has posted seven presentations on its YouTube channel that will interest those with relatives who lived in and near Quebec City. The Quebec City Irish and World War II by Joe Lonergan This presentation is about a … Continue reading →

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New birth, marriage and death records on Genealogy Quebec

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Gail Dever

The Drouin Institute has added more than 87,000 births, marriages and burials/deaths to Genealogy Quebec. A collaboration with the Société d’histoire de La Prairie-de-la-Magdeleine has enabled the institute to add all of La Nativité de la Sainte-Vierge de Laprairie de la Magdelaine (Notre-Dame) parish’s baptisms and burials from 1862 to … Continue reading →

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Concordia University alumni archives now available on Internet Archive

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Gail Dever

If one or more of your relatives attended Concordia University in Montreal, you may want to check out their new online archival collection. The university has been rebuilding its alumni archives, created from donations from past students and their relatives, … Continue reading →

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MyHeritage acquires Quebec genealogy company MesAïeux.com

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Gail Dever

MyHeritage announced today the acquisition of MesAïeux.com, a family history service specializing in French Canadian genealogy. The website is available in French and English, and the English side of the site is called, MyFolks. MesAïeux.com offers an online family tree builder … Continue reading →

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Quebec death registers, 1926-1997, on Ancestry

Posted on July 2, 2024 by Gail Dever

Ancestry has added the collection, Quebec, Canada, Death Registers 1926-1997, to its website. The collection is an index of information derived from a government death register produced in Quebec between 1926 and 1997. Images of the original documents used to … Continue reading →

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