A Timeline for Quebec Records: What to Use When (John Fisher) VT-FCGS Mbr # 2

INTRODUCTION People of French-Canadian and Acadian descent are fortunate in having ancestors who are among the best documented people in the world. French-Canadian pedigrees are primarily constructed on the basis of marriage records and can usually be extended ten to fifteen generations in every line back to the immigrant ancestor. In many cases, the parish or village of origin in France can also easily be found. All that is needed to begin a search are the names of a couple married in Quebec and an approximate date of marriage.

A Little Summary for beginning your research in Vermont 1. Collect all known information from your family etc. 2. Vermont Vital Records - Births, Marriages and Deaths FamilySearch - 1760 to 1956 Ancestry - 1909 to 2008 Microfilm at VT-FCGS - 1760 to 1940 a. Vital records from town registers of births, marriages, and deaths from 1760 b. The content and completeness of the records varied by town. c. The present vital registration law was enacted in 1857. d. A centralized registration system was established in 1919. e. They were transcribed to index cards in 1930's and later microfilmed. f. Time periods: 1760-1870, 1871-1908, 1909-1941, 1942-1954, 1955-1979, then yearly starting in 1980. g. The indexers for Ancestry and FamilySearch made many transcription errors. 3. Census - See Ancestry and FamilySearch 4. VT-FCGS - Marriage, Baptism, Burial & some Cemetery records in the 44 volumes of Vermont Diocese Parishes that we have published. 5. Check your local town & city records. 6. Obituaries - VT-FCGS - 1980 thru 1990 - Check our computer index and refer to our card file VT-FCGS - 1990 thru 2000 - Check out computer index and refer to our Obit books VT-FCGS - 2002 thru 2011 - Check the Burlington Free Press file on our computers Check your local library

History of French Parish Records -- (From NosOrigines website) 1539 - The Ordinance of Villers-Cotterets forced the priests to keep records of baptisms. 1579 - The order of Blois extended this obligation to marriages and burials. 1667 - The Code Louis requires the register in duplicate, one remaining in the parish, the other being sent to the nearest court office. 1736 - Parish records are routinely kept in duplicate.

Drouin History & Products Drouin History - Created in 1899 by Joseph Drouin, the Drouin Genealogical Institute (Institut genealogique Drouin in French) was first known as the company Les Généalogies Drouin, before taking its definitive trade name in 1913. From 1899 to 1937, the lawyer sold more than 1,500 family genealogies.

The Drouin Institute reached its peak under the management of Gabriel Drouin, the son of Joseph. From 1938, he gave himself the goal of microfilming most of Quebec Vital Records for all religions. His team put on index cards the data that were accumulated over the years. The results of this huge undertaking are now available on several formats: the Kardex, the series of 2366 microfilms, the Dictionnaire national des canadiens-français (the Red Drouin or the National Dictionary of French Canadians) and the two series known as the Masculine (the Men Series) and the Feminine (the Women Series) (also known as the Blue Drouin, presented by men and by women).

When Gabriel Drouin died in 1980, his heirs found they could not continue the business. They had to sell a part of the family assets to Americans (AFGS RI).

The genealogist Jean-Pierre Pepin got involved at that time. He restarted the Drouin Institute to reclaim its credibility in an effort to keep most of Drouin

data in Quebec.

PRDH Products PRDH - Programme de recherche en demographie historique or in English; Research Program in Historical Demography. Demography - The study of statistics of a population In 1966, at the University of Montreal by Hubert Charbonneau & Jacques Legare - Input 690,000 baptism, marriage and burial info from 153 parishes. Added civil records and data from genealogical works. * This remarkable tool has been used for a wide variety of research projects involving scholars from many disciplines – Medicine, history, linguistics, anthropology, biology, genetics, and genealogy. * Many different genealogical products have been made available these past 32 years using the PRDH database. Constantly being updated with new information.

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1980 to 1990 - Began Publishing 47 volumes of BMD, censuses, etc (1621 to 1765) - Grouped by town, and then by baptisms, marriages and burials (names as written) - Laprairie Quebec is No. 271, chronological list; great if many family members in town - Cost about $4,700.00 All Quebec Vital Records 1621-1765 in a printed format. Vol. 1-7 (1621-1699; census and other lists, no. 6; index, no. 7) Vol. 8-17 (1700-1729; index, nos. 16-17) Vol. 18-30 (1730-1749; index, nos. 29-30) Vol. 31-45 (1750-1765; index, nos. 43-45) Vol. 46-47 (records omitted previously, censuses 1760, 1762 and 1765) 1983 - The Rene JETTE book of Quebec Families published. 1621 to 1730 (Cost about $100.00) - Similar to Tanguay but more accurate 2000 - Dictionnaire Genealogique de Quebec Ancien CD - Quebec Families 1621 to 1765 - I call it the Jette CD About $300.00 (Now Standardized Names) 2001 - PRDH Website - A searchable database - 1621 to 1799 (Now Standardized Names) - expanded with 45, 000 burials of the 1800-1850 period - $25.00 for 200 HITS - Free public access - with limited information 2002 - PRDH CD - A searchable Database of data for 1621 to 1799 (Now Standardized Names) - (Cost VT-FCGS $983.00 plus a computer purchase) 2012 - LaFrance Website - Drouin and PRDH data ($100.00 a year for 150 Hits a day.) - Links to the actual records 1621 to 1825 (Each is a Hit) - Many other databases, such as 1926-1996 Quebec marriages & deaths - A complete index of all marriages up to 1911 - Index of all baptisms and burials up to 1849 - Over 2, 225, 000 catholic acts of Quebec

Commonly Called Tanguay Acronym/Citation DGFC Title Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes Years Covered 1621-1765 Type of Records Reconstructed Families Language French Type of Media Book - 7 Volumes A Monumental Work!! Where Available VT-FCGS Library and Internet: http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/ Publisher/When Monsignor Cyprien Tanguay - Published 1871 to 1890 Content • Volume 1 covers families before 1700.

• Volumes 2 to 7 cover families until 1765. A few lines can reach about 1880. • Throughout the 7 volumes they are many gems such as a list of Surnames &

Variations in Vol. 7 page 495; France Provinces; Quebec Parishes and many more.

• The LEBOEUF COMPLEMENT is a book of corrections to Tanguay.

Comment This was the original "Bible" of French Canadian genealogy and is still used. It is easy to use and if you use it; use the Leboeuf Complement, and verify your data with another resource like Jette or Drouin. Genealogies compiled from the archives of 161 parishes. Useful appendices include: 1) a comprehensive list of "dit" names; 2) lists of the 528 parishes founded in Quebec by 1871; 3) an alphabetical list of French villages in 1631; and 4) names of whites married to female natives.

Commonly Called Red Drouin Acronym DNCF Title Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais Years Covered 1621-1765 Type of Records Marriages Language French Type of Media Book Where Available VT-FCGS Library Publisher/When Drouin Institute (about 1958) our library book published in 1986 Content • Volumes 1 and 2: Marriages of Quebec, and ancestors of Acadians who

moved to Quebec • They trace family lines from father to father ending with the first settler. • Volume 3: Historical Part. Usually, not reliable (articles written to give

prestige to our ancestors)

Comment Has many mistakes; not recommended

Commonly Called Loiselle Acronym Loiselle Title Loiselle Marriage File Years Covered 1621-1935 Type of Records Marriage records Language French Type of Media Microfiche Where Available VT-FCGS Publisher/When Antonin Loiselle - Our microfiche pub in 1985 Content About 1,000,000 marriages from 520+ parishes. Covers the marriage records in

Quebec, Madawaska County in New Brunswick, and Manchester and Hillsboro, New Hampshire, Up to about 1963

Comment We have both the Male and Female Index files. If you cannot find your marriage in the Blue Drouin, try Loiselle (Indexed by surnames)

Commonly Called Blue Drouin Acronym RAMCF Title Repertoire Alphabetique des Mariages des Canadiens Francais Years Covered 1621-1936/42 Type of Records Marriages in alphabetic order Language French Type of Media Large Blue books (64 each) and microfiche (559 for Males and 601 for Females) Where Available VT-FCGS has microfiche indexes by Males and Females Publisher/When Drouin Institute about 1990; Pepin and then AFGS, RI Content Over 1 million marriages. Fiche has 2 parts, search in both for Pre & Post 1880 Comment An excellent resource. One should always start here for Quebec marriages.

Commonly Called Drouin Microfilms/Database/Internet Acronym Title Years Covered 1621-1936/40 (says 1967 on Ancestry) Type of Records Vital records of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Language French before 1759 Type of Media Originally on Microfilm; converted to database and now on Internet at Ancestry.com Where Available AFGS, RI has the 2365 microfilms; ACGS, NH has the database. VT-FCGS has the

Ancestry Library Edition for all its members Publisher/When Drouin Institute - now AFGS, RI in US and Pierre Pepin in Canada Content 2365 microfilms covering all vital records of Quebec from beginnings to 1940, including

usually both copies (court house and catholic church copies). Some microfilms are about other places like Acadia, Ontario and some American records (mostly West French Forts).

Comment These are the original records; a primary resource. Drouin Act from Ancestry for the birth of Jean Francois Poissant on 13 Oct 1716 at St Francois Xavier parish (Laprairie, Quebec); son of Jacques Poissant dit Lasaline and Margaret Besset

Commonly Called PRDH original Acronym Title Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique Years Covered 1621-1765 Type of Records Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Language French, but very little text Type of Media Books - 47 volumes Available for $4,700.00 Where Available VT-FCGS has the 1st 24 volumes Publisher/When Gaetan Morin Content All Quebec Vital Records 1621-1765 in a printed format.

• Vol. 1-7 (1621-1699; census and other lists in vol 6; index in vol 7) • Vol. 8-17 (1700-1729; index in vol 16-17) • Vol. 18-30 (1730-1749; index in vol 29-30) • Vol. 31-45 (1750-1765; index in vol 43-45) • Vol. 46-47 (records omitted previously, censuses 1760, 1762 and 1765)

Comment Records are in chronological order by town which is handy. Data has been improved since publishing the books and is now available on CD in 1999 and is most up-to-date on the Internet The CD and Internet are searchable by name etc, however it's also very nice to see in the books, all the vitals for Laprairie (271) from its beginning by family. Years ago I copied all Laprairie pages and used them for a long time.

10 Aug 1702 baptism of Jacques Poissant at Laprairie (271)

Commonly Called PRDH digitized Acronym Title Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique Years Covered 1621-1799 Type of Records Baptism, Marriage, Burial and Census Language French Type of Media CD and Internet Where Available VT-FCGS has the CD version - Internet at: http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/ Publisher/When University of Montreal Content CD: 1621-1799

INTERNET: Last update done in 2010. The vast majority correspond to the systematic extracting of information from records of baptisms, marriages, and burials for the 1621-1799 period that came to us from 153 parishes, missions, and Catholic institutions in Quebec that kept registers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Are also part of the data some 45, 000 burials of the 1800-1850 period extracted to better death information of people born in the first half of the XVIII th century FEES are  24.95$ CA for 150 hits and up.

Comment Excellent resource

Commonly Called Jette Acronym DGFQ Title Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles du Quebec Years Covered 1621-1730 Type of Records Reconstructed Families using PRDH information Language French Type of Media Book of 1176 pages Where Available VT-FCGS Library Publisher/When Rene Jette / University of Montreal Content Baptisms, Marriages, Burials and census info. Also points to Notary marriage

contracts Comment Excellent Resource Example with 1st and 2nd marriages referencing the marriage contracts

Commonly Called Jette on CD Acronym DGQA Title Dictionnaire Généalogique du Québec Ancien Years Covered 1621-1765 Type of Records Reconstructed Families Language French Type of Media CD Where Available VT-FCGS CD Publisher/When University of Montreal Content Nearly 300 000 vital events relating to some 190, 000 people are in the Dictionnaire.

They were compiled by the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH) of the Université de Montréal. This comprehensive demographic database extracts almost all information from the parish registers: dates (year-month-day), full names including witnesses and their spouses, sex, age, marital status, occupation, kinship, places of residence and origin, etc., of every person mentioned. Quebec's early nominal censuses are also included. The full range of records covered up to 1765 includes: recantation, baptism, confirmation, hospital sick list, list of migrants, marriage, marriage contract, census, burial and marriage annulment records. All spelling variants must be checked because register entries have been transcribed exactly as recorded.

Comment Excellent Resource and newer than Jette Book

Commonly Called LaFrance Years Covered 1621-1911* see content below for details Type of Records See Content below Language French/English Type of Media Internet: http://www.genealogiequebec.com/ Where Available VT-FCGS has a subscription to this site Publisher/When Drouin Institute; March 2012 Content ALL MARRIAGES from the arrival of the first French settlers to the year 1911

(some 788 000 acts). The acts from 1621 to 1824 include a DIRECT LINK to the image of the original document, as do a good number of the 1825-1911 acts. ALL BAPTISMS and BURIALS for the 1621-1824 period, with a link to the original (nearly 1,150,000 acts) Over 317,000 Baptisms and Burials for 1825-1849, with a link to the original. The rest of the 1825-1849 acts will be added before the end of the year. It is thus over 2, 225, 000 acts of the 17th, 18th , 19th and early 20th centuries that are now available.

Comment Our best resource todate!!

Commonly Called Fichier Origine Acronym Title Family origins of emigrants of French and Foreign origins settled in Quebec. Years Covered 1621 To 1865 Type of Records Baptism, Marriages, contracts etc Language French Type of Media Online at: http://www.fichierorigine.com/ Where Available VT-FCGS on "Other Internet Resources" webpage Publisher/When This database was developed by Marcel Fournier, Coordinator of

Fichier Origine and published by the Federation of Quebec genealogy companies for researchers of history and genealogy.

Content The computerized inventory of acts found in the project Franco-Quebec Research; the family origins of emigrants of French and Foreign origins settled in Quebec.

Comment If during your research, you find new information of the 1st immigrant family, you can email a copy of the original record with explanation, and he may put it online.

See example on next page.

POISSANT / LA SALINE, Jacques 243351

Statut Marié (married)

Date de naissance 12-07-1661 (12 July 1661)

Date de baptême 04-08-1661 (4 Aug 1661)

Lieu d'origine Marennes (Temple protestant) (Charente-Maritime) 17219

Parents Jacques POISSANT et Élisabeth Magor

Métier du père Sergent royal

Date de mariage des parents 25-03-1654 (25 Mar 1654)

Lieu de mariage des parents La Tremblade (Temple Protestant) (17452)

Date du contrat de mariage 23-07-1653 (23 Jul 1653)

Notaire Me Nicolas Aubin

Première mention au pays 1685

Occupation à l'arrivée Soldat des troupes de la Marine, compagnie de DeNoyan

Date de mariage Vers 1699

Lieu du mariage Chambly

Conjoint Marie-Marguerite Bessette

Décès ou inhumation La Prairie, 19-08-1734 (19 Aug 1734)

Remarques

Jacques abjure sa religion à Pointe-aux-Trembles, le 00-04-1685. Son père Jacques Poissant (parents omis), m.1 à Marennes (protestants), le 31-01-1638 avec Suzanne Guichard (parents omis), dont 5 enfants sont nés et baptisés dans le même lieu : Raymond, né en 1639 et décédé le 16-02-1679 ; Jacques-1, le 07-04-1641 ; Suzanne, le 06-02-1645 ; Jacques-2, le 28-11-1649 et Abraham, le 28-04-1652. Sa mère Élisabeth Magord (parents omis), m.1 à Marennes (protestants), le 17-08-1642 avec Pierre Burgnet (parents omis) ; elle est d. et inhumée à 50 ans le 16-06-1670 à Marennes (protestante), veuve de Jacques Poissant.

Identification DGFQ, p. 931 (Jette book)

Chercheur(s) Christian Siguret ; Bougrier ; John R. Fisher ; Lise Dandonneau

Copie d'acte SGCF digitized (a link to the act if available)

Date de modification 2012-01-26 (26 Jan 2012)

Commonly Called Parchemin Index and Notarial Records Title Years Covered 1626-1784 Type of Records Index of Notarial Contracts Language French (hand written) Type of Media Database; Paper copies from Quebec of Indexes and actual records Where Available National Archives of Quebec at Montreal Publisher/When Archiv-Histo about 1990 Content Dozens of various types of acts like Land sales, marriage contracts, etc. Comment The major source of notarial acts

Some typed french transcripts are available from the SGCF in Montreal (website) Index of the actual record

The handwritten record (A small example - usually 1 to 3 sheets but sometimes 14 for Inventories)

Commonly Called Pistard Acronym Title Years Covered 1626-19?? Type of Records Many notarial contracts; a giant Quebec database Language French Type of Media Online Internet database Where Available Internet: http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/recherche_simple

On VT-FCGS website Other Internet Resources page. Publisher/When Archives of Quebec Content Also photo's, indexes to major collections, etc Comment To see documents, check the box " Documents numérisés" or "Digitized Documents" The Index Record

Part of the 1st of 4 pages  

 

Commonly Called CENSUS Acronym Title Canadian Censuses Years Covered See content below Type of Records Census Language French Type of Media Internet Where Available FamilySearch and Ancestry

See also Collections Canada at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/census/ Publisher/When Content 1831 census: FamilySearch 

1851 census: Ancestry.ca | FamilySearch | Automated Genealogy 1861 census: Ancestry.ca | FamilySearch 1871 census: Ancestry.ca | FamilySearch 1881 census: Ancestry.ca | FamilySearch  1891 census: Ancestry.ca | FamilySearch  1901 census: Ancestry.ca | Automated Genealogy 1911 census: Ancestry.ca | Automated Genealogy

Comment The 1851 census was actually done in 1852. Searching for Poissant produces a large list of Poissants with Given names listed in Alphabetical Order. By clicking on a letter of the alphabet, it shows only given names beginning with that letter Example below is with the letter V

Indexed Data

Actual Census Sheet for 1852

Commonly Called BMS2000 Acronym Title Years Covered Any and all Type of Records Baptismal, marriage and burial Language French or English Type of Media Online Database Where Available Need Subscription - http://www.bms2000.org Publisher/When A group or Federation of genealogical societies of Quebec. Content Version 15 of BMS2000 counts now close to ten millions baptismal, marriage and

burial records covering from the beginning of "Nouvelle France" up to present days. Parishes : 6,864 records Patronyms/Surnames : 15,614 records Baptisms : 4,564,710 records Marriages : 3,377,783 records Burials : 2,009,332 records

Comment Cost begins at 200 vouchers for $20 Canadian BMS2000 Index

Actual record

Commonly Called Population of the French Forts of America in the XVIII th Century Acronym Title La population des forts francais d' Amerique: Repertoire des baptemes, mariages et

sepultures celebres dans les forts et les establissements francais en Amerique du Nord au XVIIIe siecle.

Years Covered 1695-1821 Type of Records Baptisms, Marriages and Burials Language French Type of Media Books - 2 vols. Church and census records from 15 French outposts on

the frontier. Where Available VT-FCGS Library Publisher/When Fairbault-Beauregard, Marthe. Montreal: Editions Bergeron, 1982 & 1984. Content 2 vols. Church and census records (1695-1821) from 15 French outposts on

the frontier. Comment Includes wives, and children and many Native Americans Sample page of Marriages at Fort Frederic for Crown Point, NY and Addison, VT

Commonly Called LaForest Acronym Title Our French Canadian Ancestors Years Covered Nouvelle France 1608-1759 Type of Records The biographies of early Quebec settlers - 6 to 9 pages each family Language English Type of Media 30 Volumes of books Where Available VT-FCGS Publisher/When Thomas J. Laforest - 1983-2000 Content Actually a translation of "Nos Ancestres" published by Father Gerard Lebel.

Translation was done by Jacques Saintonge Comment Excellent! An amazing work for our reading pleasure.

Volume XXIII has an index for the first 28 volumes Check vols XXIX and XXX for their contents There are also little gems of info within all the books, maps, stories etc.

Sample page of the book

Commonly Called Rapport of the Archives of Quebec Acronym RAPQ Title Rapport des archives de la province de Quebec Years Covered Founding of Quebec to 1975 Type of Records Historical Documents of Quebec Language French Type of Media 54 volumes Where Available On CD and computers at VT-FCGS Publisher/When 1920 to 1975 Content Varied. Lists of Voyagers is very useful Comment See French Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists in VT-FCGS Library for

an overall Index

Commonly Called Jesuit Relations Acronym Title The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents 1610 to 1791 Years Covered 1610-1791 Type of Records Annual missionary reports written by the Jesuits in New France for their superiors in

France. Language Italian, Latin and French Type of Media Books - 73 volumes (22,500 pages) Where Available Online at: http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/

See VT-FCGS website; Other Internet resources - French Canadian & Quebec section

Publisher/When Translated to English by Reuben Thwaites (1853-1913) Content Through their Relations, the Jesuits provide details of colonial life during the French

regime in Canada. Comment Very interesting reading about the beginnings of Quebec.

Easily search all 22,500 pages with one search such as COUTURE. You will find that Guillaume Couture was engaged by Father René Goupil as was mentioned several times.

Example from about 1613-1616

Commonly Called Beauregard Database Acronym GFNA Title Genealogy of the French in North America Years Covered Online - Beginning 1621 to 1721

CD on VT-FCGS computer - 1621 to 1780 Type of Records Database Language French Type of Media Online Internet and CD versions Where Available Use at VT-FCGS - Online at http://www.francogene.com/gfna/gfna/998/ Publisher/When Denis Beauregard Content The current release of the CD-ROM has mostly marriages in Quebec, Acadia,

Western French Forts and Louisiana from 1621 to 1780, nearly all linked together when relevant data is available, i.e. if there is a link to parents or children (if the parents were married before 1781).

Comment The Index (Only shows data for up to 1721 Online)

The Record

Commonly Called Canadian Biographies Acronym Title Dictionary of Canadian Biography Years Covered 1000 to 1920 Type of Records Biographies Language English Type of Media Books 14 Volumes and an Index for Vols. 1 thru 12 Where Available VT-FCGS Library Publisher/When Universities of Laval and Toronto in 1959 Content Comment Also Online at http://www.biographi.ca/index-e.html

1771-1800 (Volume IV)

BOURASSA (Bouracas, Bourasseau), dit La Ronde, RENÉ, fur-trader; baptized 21 Dec. 1688 at Prairie-de-la-Madeleine (Laprairie, Que.), son of François Bourassa, dit La Ronde, and Marie Le Ber; m. there 23 Oct. 1710 Agnès Gagné, and they had three children; m. there secondly, on 28 Sept. 1721, Marie-Catherine Leriger de La Plante, and they had five children; buried 7 Sept. 1778 at Montreal.

In the early decades of the 18th century the merchants in the English colonies were paying on the average twice the French price for beaver pelts. Tempted by these profits, René Bourassa, dit La Ronde, ventured into the extensive illicit trade between Montreal and Albany, New York. He was caught, however, and in July 1722 fined 500 livres.

By 1726 he had entered the western trade, which his father had followed over 30 years earlier. In partnership with Nicolas Sarrazin and François Lefebvre* Duplessis Faber, Bourassa dispatched canoes to the pays d’en haut in 1726. The following year he traded to Baie-des-Puants (Green Bay, Wis.), where Duplessis was commandant. Although his main focus was the western trade, in March 1729 Bourassa carried letters to New England, a trip which was often cover for illegal trade. By 1735 he was connected with business associates of Pierre Gaultier* de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. In that year Bourassa hired engagés to go to La Vérendrye’s posts at Fort Saint-Charles (on Lake of the Woods) and Fort Maurepas (a few miles above the mouth of the Red River). He himself was at Saint-Joseph (Niles, Mich.) in July but wintered with the explorer at Saint-Charles. Early in June 1736 Bourassa and four others set out for Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.). Suddenly they were captured by some 100 Prairie Sioux warriors, who claimed the French were arming their enemies. The war party was preparing to burn Bourassa at the stake when his Sioux slave girl dramatically pleaded for his life and he was released. He and his men subsequently escaped empty-handed to Michilimackinac, but the Sioux ambushed Jean-Baptiste Gaultier* de La Vérendrye’s party, which was following some miles behind, and killed its 21 members. More follows 

Commonly Called 1926-1996 Marriages & Deaths of Quebec Acronym Title 1926-1996 Marriages & Deaths of Quebec Years Covered 1926-1996 Type of Records database Language French Type of Media Database/Internet Where Available VT-FCGS bought both CD's via M. Acomb / Also on LaFrance website on Internet Publisher/When Content Marriages - see below

Deaths - see below Comment Catholic, Protestant, Civil and others

2, 457,483 Marriages with a link to the image, and 2,748,440 Deaths. Examples from the LaFrance Website Marriage

Click on square for the actual marriage record

Death

see next page for the Image of the Marriage