Guardianships, burials, coroner lists, land requests, baptisms, marriages, burials, deeds, probates, prisoner lists, parish censuses, court records. Here you can find the following:
Register of interments in Mount Hermon Cemetery, 1848-1904
Parish censuses of Notre-Dame-de-Québec
Tutorships and curatorships in the judicial district of Montréal, 1791-1807
Coroners’ inquests in the judicial districts of:
Beauce, 1862-1947, Charlevoix, 1862-1944, Montmagny, 1862-1952,
Québec, 1765-1930 and Saint-François (Sherbrooke), 1900-1954
Preliminary inquiries in the judicial district of Québec, 1897-1927
Events of 1837-1838: In the footsteps of the Patriots
Applications for free grants of land to families with 12 living children, 1890-1905
Inventories after death in the judicial district of Rimouski (CN 101), 1822-1918
Inventories after death in the judicial districts of Québec, Charlevoix, Beauce, Montmagny and Kamouraska, 1785 -1955
Inventories after death in the Montréal area, 1791-1840
List of transcriptions of notarial acts
Marriage contracts in the Charlevoix region, 1737-1920, and the Saguenay region, 1840-1911
Marriage contracts in the Québec City area, 1761-1946
Jail logs of Québec City prisons in the 19th century
Non-Catholic baptisms in the Montréal area, 1766-1835
Non-Catholic burials in the Montréal area, 1767-1899
Non-Catholic marriages in the Montréal area, 1766-1899
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Some of the major records sources that can be used for genealogy research in Quebec include:
- Church records of births, marriages, and deaths (1670-1993)
- Birth, marriage, and death records by the government (1964-present)
- National census records recorded every 10 years starting in 1851
- Provincial censuses recorded as early as 1666
- Land records kept by the towns and counties from the time they were settled
- Probate records kept by the local courts (1626-present)
- Newspapers written in many areas and time periods that contain information such as notices of marriages, notices of death, and obituaries
- Town and county histories about the settlers and their families
- Naturalization and citizenship records recorded by the courts since 1794
- Ship passenger lists, tax lists, and town records