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Parish/Town Guides to the Province of Quebec - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Online edition of this book by Robert J. Quintin. Revised and augmented edition. Pawtucket, RI, 1993, 63pages. Designed to prevent wasting time looking for your ancestor in the wrong town at the wrong time. This guide will save you many hours of research by helping you focus on the correct parish in the correct town during the correct time period. Four different lists designed to make your genealogical research in Québec much easier. This book contains 1) a chronological listing of pre-1901 Catholic Churches, 2) an alphabetical listing of parishes by town, 3) an alphabetical listing of parishes by the patron saint of that parish and 4) an alphabetical listing of parishes by county. Subscription required. -

The Notaries of French Canada 1626-1900 - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Lists notaries alphabetically, chronologically and by the area served. Subscription required. -

Companions of Champlain: Founding Families of Quebec, 1608-1635 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Drawing on primary and reliable secondary sources, this work provides readers with a concise historical overview of the founding of Quebec and French-Canadian culture. It also supplies readers with the research tools necessary to link their family lines with those of the original 18 pioneer families who inhabited Quebec during the lifetime of the city’s founder, Samuel de Champlain. -

Ecclesiastical Authorizations for Permission to Marry: 15 April 1757 to 1763 (Quebec) - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Contains a listing (with supporting evidence) of those people wishing to marry in Quebec who must prove that they are not currently married to someone in France. Each candudate had to prove that he was not married either by religious testimony or, more often, the testimony of a friend. Subscription required. -

French Migration to North America = Emigration Francaise en Amerique du Nord - (Book - Amazon.ca) : Everyday life descriptions of the French early settlers to North America describing everything from the turbulent wars of France in the late 1500's and early 1600's to the dominance of these French descendants in Quebec culture today and their integration into many eastern and Midwestern United States towns.
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Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This book is intended to help researchers locate their Catholic ancestors in Quebec. The bulk of this work consists of county-by-county lists of parishes within the Province of Quebec, and all known Catholic parishes are listed to 1900. Each list gives the names of all the parishes within that county, arranged in order of formation, with the date of the oldest records for that parish. A reference letter and name after the parish indicates the compiler and publisher of a marriage register for that parish, or whether the marriages for that parish may be found in the important Loiselles Marriage Index. The compiler has also included a few Protestant parishes and marriage indexes. -

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France - (Book - Amazon.ca) : The authors deliver an in-depth account of the history of one of the oldest cities in North America and how it went from an administrative center to a cultural icon.
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