The Drouin Genealogical Institute announced today it has acquired Planète Généalogie, a genealogical research website that offers more than 29 million images and files.
Planète Généalogie is a genealogical research website that provides various collections and databases. The databases include parish registers, GEDCOM files, tombstones, death cards, telephone directories, and obituaries. These collections pertain to the province of Quebec as well as part of Canada and the United States. The website is available in French only. The various subscription options for Planète Généalogie can be found here. 
What does this mean for Genealogy Quebec?
The Drouin Institute’s long-term plan is a gradual transition of Planète Généalogie’s content to its website, Genealogy Quebec. This transition begins today with the addition of the several new collections on Genealogy Quebec, which are available with a one-day, one-month, one-year subscription.
21,481 parish register images have been added to the Drouin Collection Records, under the Registres (Quebec et Ontario) folder:
- Marie-Médiatrice-de-toutes-les-Grâces (Ottawa) 1956-2007
- Ste-Jeanne-d’Arc (Ottawa) 1923-2000
- St-Barthélémy (Joliette) 1929-2010
- St-Cuthbert (Berthier) 1770-2008
- St-Tite-des-Caps (Champlain) 1940-1994
- St-Viateur (Berthier) 1909-2009
- Vanier (St-Charles) 1908-2008
75 000 images have been added in the Great Collections section:
- Patrimoine familial, 100 new family genealogies. 55,904 images added.
- Fonds d’archives: Fonds Arcand. 3,066 images added. This is a collection that pertains to the Arcand family.
- Généalogies familiales, Cité Saint-Michel coat of arms. 90 images added.
- Autres documents. 15 094 images added. Various historical documents, including a collection dating from the 1940-1950s, named Mes Fiches. Mes Fiches was a monthly publication that focused on various subjects about the Catholic church.
What will happen to Planète Généalogie?
The Planète Généalogie website will remain available for at least another year. Once a closure date has been selected for the website, the Drouin Institute will gradually remove the subscription options, starting with the yearly subscription. This will allow the website’s subscribers to extend their subscription up until the website’s closure.
