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Canada    Quebec

Guide to Quebec ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Quebec Wiki Topics
Beginning Research
Guided Research Research Strategies Record Finder
Record Types
Biography Business Records & Commerce Cemeteries Census Church Records Civil Registration Court Records Directories Emigration & Immigration Genealogies Land & Property Loiselle Marriage Index	Military Records Naturalization & Citizenship Newspapers Notarial Records Obituaries Online Records Periodicals Probate Records Rivest Marriage Index School Records Vital Records
Quebec Background
Québécois Word List Gazetteers Historical Geography History Languages	Maps Names, Personal Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary For Further Reading
Ethnicity
Cultural Groups First Nations	Jewish Records
Local Research Resources
Archives & Libraries Societies Family History Centers

Getting Started

Getting Started with Quebec Research Links to articles on getting started with Quebec research.

Quebec Research Tools Links to articles and websites that assist in Quebec research. Quebec Research Outline Mary's Genealogy Treasures - great research resource Originis. Stories of parishes, baptisms directories, marriages and burials, census, clergy biography demographic statistics. (In French) Message boards for localities in Quebec. Tracings by Sam... Quebec Map Counties Abitibi Acton Argenteuil Arthabaska Bagot Beauce Beauharnois Bellechasse Berthier Bonaventure Brome Chambly Champlain Charlevoix-Est Charlevoix-Ouest Châteauguay Chicoutimi Compton Deux-Montagnes Dorchester Drummond Frontenac Gaspé-Est Gaspé-Ouest Gatineau Hull Huntingdon Iberville Île-de-Montréal Île-Jésus Îles-de-la-Madeleine Joliette Kamouraska Labelle Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Lac-Saint-Jean-Ouest Laprairie L'Assomption Lévis L'Islet Lotbiniere Maskinongé Matane Matapédia Mégantic Missisquoi Montcalm Montmagny Montmorency No 1 Montmorency No 2 Napierville Nicolet Papineau Pontiac Portneuf Québec Richelieu Richmond Rimouski Rivière-du-Loup Rouville Saguenay Saint-François Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Jean Saint-Maurice Shefford Sherbrooke Soulanges Stanstead Témiscamingue Témiscouata Terrebonne Territoire-de-Mistassini Territoire-du-Nouveau-Québec Vaudreuil Verchères Wolfe Yamaska Extinct or Renamed Counties:  Jacques Cartier · Laval The Fur Trade In New France Major Repositories Library and Archives Canada · Salle Gagnon · Eastern Townships Research Centre · Centre d'archives de Québec et de Chaudière-Appalaches · American-Canadian Genealogical Society · Migration Routes Lake Champlain · St. Lawrence River · Chambly Canal · Champlain Canal · Halifax Road or Grand Communication Route  · Lake Champlain Trail The Seigneuries In common with much of New France (La Nouvelle-France), the territory known today as the province of Quebec (Le Québec) was first organized politically along feudal lines. Beginning in 1604, scores of concessions of land, known as seigneuries, were granted by the government to proprietors known as seigneurs. The potential for the creation of new seigneuries effectively ended in Quebec in 1763, with the English conquest, but the system remained intact, with modifications, for decades afterward. A list of all of the seigneuries of New France, with the dates of their foundation is found at Wikipedia.fr. A list of the seigneuries of Quebec is found at memoireduquebec.com. A map of the seigneuries of Quebec, made by A. E. B. Courchesne in 1923, accompanies the list. Most seigneuries had a frontage of several miles along the Saint Lawrence river and estuary (Le fleuve Saint Laurent), or along a major river, although some seigneuries surrounded large lakes. Eventually the county system introduced by the English supplanted the seigneuries for most purposes of interest to the family history researcher, but the seigneuries figure importantly in early records. Early baptismal records often refer to a newborn child's residence using the name of a seigneurie rather than a city or town.