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 == '''Catholic Church Records'''  ==
-Roman Catholic parish registers are the most accurate and helpful of all the French Canadian genealogical sources. These registers contain baptism, marriage, and burial records from 1621 to the present. Between 1679 and 1993, all parishes in Québec were required to send duplicate copies to the civil archives. This duplication has ensured that a vast majority of vital records from Quebec survive to the present day.
 '''The Family History Library Collection'''&nbsp; The Family History Library has microfilm copies of the following:
 *All Catholic registers from 1621 to 1877,
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 '''The Drouin Collection''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1091 The Drouin Collection 1621-1967] ($) (Ancestry) is available online. This French-Canadian collection has over 15 million genealogical and vital records entries microfilmed by the Institut Généalogique Drouin. The Drouin Collection is made up of six smaller collections. For more details see [[The Drouin Collection: Six Databases|"The Drouin Collection: Six Databases"]]
-'''Quebec Records '''[https://www.quebecrecords.com Drouin Collection on Quebec Records (Drouin Institute)] ($) (Drouin Institute) is available online by subscription. Baptisms and deaths are indexed (1621 through 1849) and marriages (1621 through 1913).
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-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.
-=== Original Copies of Church Records  ===
-The original civil copies of most parish registers are held in the regional branches of the Archives Nationales du Québec. Extracts of the records before 1900 can be requested. Application forms are available at any regional branch. Send the completed form to the branch holding the records. See [[Quebec Archives and Libraries]] for more information and addresses of the regional branches. The civil copies of most parish records were microfilmed by the Institut Généalogique Drouin through about 1940.&nbsp;&nbsp; These microfilm have now been scanned and are available at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.ca.]&nbsp;&nbsp; They are arranged by parish, then by year or groups of years.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most records have an index at the end of each year or group of years.&nbsp; Ancestry has also indexed the records, but the indexes presently do not allow Soundex searches or searches for parents' names.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is possible to access the records by parish, then by year or groups of years, without using the indexes.
+===National Archives===
+The original civil copies of most parish registers are held in the regional branches of the '''Archives Nationales du Québec'''. Extracts of the records before 1900 can be requested. Application forms are available at any regional branch. Send the completed form to the branch holding the records. See [[Quebec Archives and Libraries]] for more information and addresses of the regional branches. The civil copies of most parish records were microfilmed by the Institut Généalogique Drouin through about 1940.&nbsp;&nbsp; These microfilm have now been scanned and are available at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.ca.]&nbsp;&nbsp; They are arranged by parish, then by year or groups of years.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most records have an index at the end of each year or group of years.&nbsp; Ancestry has also indexed the records, but the indexes presently do not allow Soundex searches or searches for parents' names.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is possible to access the records by parish, then by year or groups of years, without using the indexes.
+===University of montreal
 For earlier records (1621 through 1799), the University of Montreal's [http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/accesLibreBD.htm#RepertoireDesActes Quebec and French Canadian Genealogy Database] is a paid subscription service that allows users to instantly search all registers. The university (for research into demography) has each person numbered and all appearances of each individual (subject, witness, parent, child, etc.) are linked together. This is a database only.&nbsp; While it is based on parish and other original records, it&nbsp; does not have links to those original records.&nbsp;&nbsp; A number of&nbsp; burials for individuals dying after 1799 have been added to this database.&nbsp; Generally these are individuals born before about 1750.&nbsp;