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Tag Archives: Quebec notarial records
This week’s crème de la crème — May 21, 2022
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. BlogsNotaries of Montreal 1760-1791 by Jacques Gagné on Genealogy Ensemble. Military Monday: Documenting Canadian Military Personnel Who Were Prisoners of War During World War One or World War Two by Glenn Wright … Continue reading
Posted in Crème de la crème
Tagged AncestryDNA, DNA, Indigenous, mariners, MyHeritage, MyHeritageDNA, notarial records, photos, Poland, Quebec, Quebec notarial records, residential schools, WWI, WWII
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Ancestry updates Quebec notarial records collection
This week, Ancestry updated its Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935, collection. While the number of records, 16,529,462, remains the same, Ancestry said they added 1,518,597 new images to “index only sections of the database.” In the notarial records collection, the indexes … Continue reading
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Ancestry adds more images to Quebec notarial records collection
Ancestry last week updated its Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935, collection. While the number of records, 16,529,462, remains the same, there are now more Actes — images of actual notarial records — to look at, instead of just the Répertoires … Continue reading
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Almost 2,000 transcriptions of notarial records on Quebec mills available online
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and the Société pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de Pointe-Claire (SSPPC — Society for the Preservation of the Heritage of Pointe-Claire) have partnered together to make available online transcriptions of about 1,900 … Continue reading
Ancestry continues to update Quebec notary collection
The same way DNA test results are the gifts that keep on giving to genealogists, so is Ancestry with the Quebec notary records they continue to digitize. Yesterday, Ancestry updated and added more images to its collection, Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancestry, notarial records, notary records, Quebec notarial records
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How to order a notary record from the Quebec Archives after finding it in an index on Ancestry
Quebec’s notary documents are unique in North America, and they are incredible sources of information about ancestors. These documents can contain marriage contracts, wills, estate inventories, guardianships, leases, powers of attorney, mortgages, loans, deeds, sales, apprenticeships, and business partnerships. One … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — August 26, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs How I Found Norman Parker Smith in Online Records – Pt I and BMS2000 and BAnQ-Finding Norman Parker Smith Online – Pt II by Anna Matthews on Tripping Over My Roots. Kingston Trip – … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, BMS2000, citations, digital library, DNA, FamilySearch, Genealogy Gophers, Google Books, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Maine, MyHeritage, Ontario, Quebec notarial records
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Ancestry updates ‘Quebec Notarial Records’ collection
If you didn’t find any notary records for your Quebec ancestor when Ancestry first introduced its fabulous Quebec Notarial Records, 1637-1935, last fall, now may be the time to take another look. Ancestry has updated the collection. While there doesn’t seems … Continue reading
This week’s crème de la crème — July 15, 2017
Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Missing Canadian Census Images – a Workaround by Lorine McGinnis Schulze on Olive Tree Genealogy. French Canadian Marriage Contracts by Arlene Eakle on AK’s Genealogy Research. New Brunswick & Quebec Update … Continue reading
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Tagged AncestryDNA, archives, blogs, Canadian census, cemeteries, DNA, Irish, Jewish, Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal, Library and Archives Canada, Loyalists, New Brunswick, Quebec, Quebec notarial records, social media, technology, Twitter, United Empire Loyalists
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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016
Looking back over the past twelve months at what captured genealogists’ attention, it seems this was not the best year for exciting new Canadian collections. With the exception of Library and Archives Canada’s ongoing digitization of Canadian Expeditionary Forces service … Continue reading
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Tagged aboriginal, Alberta, Algonquin, Ancestry, British, Canadian Expeditionary Force, CEF, directories, Eastern Townships Archives Portal, Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Find A Grave, First Nations, Geneanet, homesteading, Irish, Italian, Library and Archives Canada, looking back, Maine, McGill University, newspapers, notarial records, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Quebec notarial records, theses, Upper Canada, Vatican, Vatican library, War of 1812, WWI
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