Category Archives: Quebec

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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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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