The Drouin Institute yesterday updated one of the most important databases for Quebec research — the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH – Research Programme in Historical Demography).
All Catholic marriages celebrated in Quebec from 1862 through 1871 are now available online at PRDH-IGD.com, adding more than 75,000 records to the database.
Of the 150,000 spouses mentioned in these marriages, more than 85 percent have been integrated into the PRDH family reconstructions. They now each have their own family file, in addition to appearing in their parents’ file.
PRDH-IGD is a database of all Catholic baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in Quebec between 1621 and 1861 – and now up to 1871 for marriages – as well as a genealogical dictionary of families commonly known as “Family reconstructions.”
Without a subscription to PRDH, you can usually do some things for free. Just click on the public access link on the home page to see what’s available. (Yesterday, the public access in both English and French wasn’t working.) It’s also possible your public library provides full access to the site.
