Tag Archives: Drouin Institute

Drouin Institute launches new blog and updates baptisms/burials database

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Gail Dever

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 … Continue reading →

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GenealogyQuebec adds Catholic baptisms and burials, 1850-1861, and recent obits

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Gail Dever

The Drouin Genealogical Institute has made good progress on its website, GenealogyQuebec, adding more than 36,000 records to extend the LAFRANCE database of Catholic baptisms and burials another 12 years from the period, 1621-1849, to 1621-1861. They have also added … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — September 2, 2017

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Focus on an Archive: Lindsay Public Library Reference Section by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Ontario Update by Sherri on CanadaGenWeb’s Cemetery Project. Kingston Trip – Part II: Discoveries … Continue reading →

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New church records added to Drouin Institute’s Genealogy Quebec website

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Gail Dever

Good things are happening for genealogists on the Drouin Institute’s Genealogy Quebec website. They recently added 10,193 Catholic baptism records and 4,306 Catholic burial records for the period 1850 to 1861, and all Catholic marriage records for the year 1916. Looking … Continue reading →

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Big book sale at Drouin Genealogical Institute

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Gail Dever

After more than 100 years of printing books, the Drouin Genealogical Institute, based in the Montreal area, has decided to shut down this part of is business and sell all of its books at a 33 percent discount. This opportunity … Continue reading →

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Drouin Institute adds more than 150,000 obituaries to its extensive collection

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Gail Dever

I have good news and more good news. First the good news. The Drouin Institute announced it has added more than 20,000 obituaries from the 1940s to the 1980s to its website, GenealogieQuebec.com. The obituaries are from Quebec newspapers, mostly … Continue reading →

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Drouin Institute’s free online database now holds more than 1.6 million Canadian obits

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Gail Dever

The Drouin Institute has added 246,000 recent obituaries to its bilingual website GenealogyQuebec for a total of 1,685,650 Canadian obituaries, from 1999 to 2015. These obituaries are from more than 250 online sources from across Canada. Access to the obituary … Continue reading →

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PRDH adds 1.7 million Quebec BMDs to its website

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Gail Dever

The Université de Montréal’s Programme de recherche en démographie historique (Research Program in Historical Demography) — PRDH — announced yesterday it has added 1.7 million 19th-century Quebec baptism, marriage, and burial records to its website. The addition of these records … Continue reading →

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Drouin improves yearly and daily subscription services

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Gail Dever

Drouin Institute has made two improvements worth noting to its yearly and daily subscription services for its Quebec Records website. Daily You can now purchase a 24-hour access subscription to Quebec Records for $5.00, which is perfect for people who … Continue reading →

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Updates on Drouin Institute’s Généalogie Québec website

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Gail Dever

The latest updates on the Drouin Institute’s Généalogie Québec website include the following: 1. Corrected names and places from 1926 to 1945 in Marriages 1926-1997. 2. Added 2,929 mortuary cards for a total of 54,113. 3. Added 62 Protestant and … Continue reading →

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