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THE DROUIN COLLECTION: | |||
Drouin Collection 1621-1967 at Ancestry.ca. When searching these databases, be creative in the spellings as well as the various focuses in searching for an ancestor. The French language has many possible spellings for a name, as well as there are errors in the indexing. | |||
This French-Canadian collection has over 15 million genealogical and vital records entries; they were microfilmed by the Institut Généalogique Drouin. In Quebec, under the French Regime, there were two sets of records kept: a copy for the civil government archives and a copy for the ecclesiastical church archives. The Drouin collection is a civil copy of these entries. Please note that the cutoff date of this collection is in the early 1940s; only a small percentage of entries were covered from 1948 to 1967. | |||
This collection is divided into six databases: 1. Quebec Vital and Church Records, 1621-1967 2. Ontario French Catholic Church Records, 1747-1967, 3. Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954, 4. Acadia French Catholic Church Records, 1670-1946, 5. Quebec Notarial Records, 1647-1942, and 6. Miscellaneous French Records, 1651-1941. For details about these six databases, see "The Drouin Collection: Six Databases" at https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/The_Drouin_Collection:_Six_databases . | |||
'''Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954''': This database only contains the French Catholic parish records from the United States; in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Pennsylvania. The types of records include baptisms, marriages, and burials as well as confirmations, dispensations, censuses, statements of readmission to the church, and so on. They are written mainly in French, as well as English, Latin, and Italian. | |||
'''Archives of the Archdiocese of Boston'''<br>2121 Commonwealth Avenue<br>Brighton, MA 02135-3193<br>Telephone: 617–254–0100, ext. 108<br>Fax: 617–783–4564 <br>Internet: http://www.rcab.org/Archives/HomePage.html <!--{12085458910670} --> | '''Archives of the Archdiocese of Boston'''<br>2121 Commonwealth Avenue<br>Brighton, MA 02135-3193<br>Telephone: 617–254–0100, ext. 108<br>Fax: 617–783–4564 <br>Internet: http://www.rcab.org/Archives/HomePage.html <!--{12085458910670} --> | ||