The Drouin Institute launched its new blog yesterday to promote the resources it offers on the subscription-based GenealogyQuebec and PRDH websites.
Already available on the blog are posts on:
What is the PRDH?
The LAFRANCE
The Obituary section
Marriages and Deaths 1926-1997
The Petit NBMDS
The Connolly File
The Kardex
The Loiselle File
Notarized documents
Postcards
Acadia – Families
Bertrand Desjardins is working on a monthly series of articles for the blog about Quebec genealogy and demography. He holds a Ph.D. in demography from the Université Lumière-Lyon 2 and is the author of numerous scientific publications on the study of the populations of Quebec and Canada. His first article for the blog is Twenty five children in 27 years: A look at our ancestors’ fertility.
Baptisms and burials
The Drouin Institute announced in its e-newsletter that 11,922 Catholic baptism records 1850-1861 and 6,335 Catholic burial records 1850-1861 had been added to the website, GenealogyQuebec.
The more than two million obituaries published across Canada, from 1999 to almost present day, are free to access.
