3,810
edits
→Introduction: Added PRDH database
m (→Original Copies of Church Records: edited link) |
(→Introduction: Added PRDH database) |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
Because of rights-of-privacy laws, the public does not have access to civil copies of parish registers from 1900 to the present. | Because of rights-of-privacy laws, the public does not have access to civil copies of parish registers from 1900 to the present. | ||
Some of the information missing from church records is available in '''notarial records'''. Léon Lalanne was a notary for the entire Eastern Townships area between 1799 and 1815. His records included wills and marriage contracts. To find out more about his records, see "Availability" in [[Quebec Notarial Records]]. | Some of the information missing from church records is available in '''notarial records'''. Léon Lalanne was a notary for the entire Eastern Townships area between 1799 and 1815. His records included wills and marriage contracts. To find out more about his records, see "Availability" in [[Quebec Notarial Records]]. | ||
The University of Montreal has created the [http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/home PRDH data base] from parish and other records prior to 1800. All the catholic certificates of baptism, marriage and burial of Quebec and the Protestant marriages 1621-1849. $, but there is a free index which gives names, years, and parishes. | |||
== '''Catholic Church Records''' == | == '''Catholic Church Records''' == | ||