Category Archives: Quebec

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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New Quebec legislation will allow adopted people to learn names of biological parents and grandparents

Posted on June 4, 2024 by Gail Dever

Starting June 8, under a change in legislation, any adult who has been adopted in Quebec will be able to know the names of their biological parents — and perhaps even grandparents — whether the parents like it or not, … Continue reading →

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Family Search indexes almost 80,000 Quebec Catholic church records

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Gail Dever

FamilySearch recently indexed 79,535 records in the Quebec Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 collection. These records can be searched by name and location. While most of these images are in French, the index is in English, French or any other language … Continue reading →

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Quebec City Archives marks 100th anniversary

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Gail Dever

Les Archives de la Ville de Québec is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and will mark the occasion with several outdoor exhibits and on-site lectures in the provincial capital. A one-minute video about the anniversary, featuring an actor portraying … Continue reading →

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Descended from these New France settlers? If so, you may be related to a number of celebrities

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Gail Dever

If you’re descended from Zacharie Cloutier a French colonist who settled in the Beauport area of Quebec near modern-day Quebec City in 1634 and his wife, Sainte (Xainte) Dupont, or Jean Guyon du Buisson, a French colonist and his wife, … Continue reading →

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New book on notaries in New France

Posted on February 26, 2024 by Gail Dever

Quebec historian and genealogist Marcel Fournier’s new book, Notaires en Nouvelle-France : Histoire et biographies, 1621-1763, about the history of notaries under the French Regime in New France, will be in book stores next Monday, March 4. The 260-page book … Continue reading →

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Huge update on PRDH — More than one million new files

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Gail Dever

The Drouin Institute this morning made one of its largest updates to one of the most important databases for Quebec research — the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH – Research Programme in Historical Demography). A subscription to PRDH-IGD.com now provides access … Continue reading →

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Anglican Church donates land for future site of Montreal memorial to Irish Famine immigrants

Posted on October 20, 2023 by Gail Dever

The Anglican Church has donated the parcel of land near Victoria Bridge in Montreal to memorialize 6,000 Irish immigrants who died in the city more than a century-and-a-half ago. The site at the Black Rock Monument will eventually be turned … Continue reading →

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Location of land owned by early European settlers in New France can now be viewed thanks to extensive research and Google Earth

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Gail Dever

Do you remember the emotional moment on Who Do You Think You Are? when Tom Bergeron stood on what had been his ancestors’ land on Île-d’Orléans in Quebec? If your ancestors are also among the earliest European settlers on Île-d’Orléans … Continue reading →

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Geneanet needs volunteers to help build Filles du roi family tree

Posted on July 27, 2023 by Gail Dever

An estimated 20 million Canadians and Americans are descended from one of more of the Filles du roi who were sent to New France in the mid-1600s. From 1663 to 1673, 770 Frenchwomen settled in Canada. Their marriages led to … Continue reading →

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