Tag Archives: Quebec notarial records

This week’s crème de la crème — May 21, 2022

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Gail Dever

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 →

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Ancestry updates Quebec notarial records collection

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Gail Dever

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

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Gail Dever

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

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Gail Dever

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 →

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Ancestry continues to update Quebec notary collection

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Gail Dever

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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How to order a notary record from the Quebec Archives after finding it in an index on Ancestry

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Gail Dever

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 →

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This week’s crème de la crème — August 26, 2017

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Gail Dever

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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Ancestry updates ‘Quebec Notarial Records’ collection

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Gail Dever

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 →

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This week’s crème de la crème — July 15, 2017

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Gail Dever

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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Your top 15 online genealogy collections in 2016

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Gail Dever

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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