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== <!--{12091743841950} --><!--{12091743841951} -->'''PROTESTANT CHURCH&nbsp;RECORDS'''  ==

Protestant church records are not as extensive as the Catholic records. Clergy of legally recognized Protestant groups were required to send duplicate copies of their church records to the civil archives. They did not always do it. Also, baptisms and marriages performed by some non-Catholic clergy were not recognized by civil authorities until 1825 or later. Beginning in 1825, the registers of various denominations were "authenticated" (given legal authority) by the legislative assembly. Many Protestant registers contain less information than the Catholic records. For example, many marriage records do not list the parents of the bride or groom. Information missing from church records may be found in censuses; in land records; or in marriage contracts, wills, and deeds included with notarial records. See the "Census," "Land and Property," and "Notarial Records" sections of this outline. To find birth, marriage, and burial records of non-Catholic groups, look in: Broadhurst, R. Neil. ''A Checklist of Registers of Protestant and Jewish Congregations in Québec''. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Kintracers, 1994. ([http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library] book 971.4 K23br.) It includes a brief history of non-Catholic groups in Québec. Civil copies of Protestant records before 1900 have been microfilmed. The microfilms are available at the [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library] and at major archives and libraries in Canada and New England. To find a record, look in the Place Search of the [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library Catalog] under QUEBEC, [COUNTY], [TOWN] - CHURCH RECORDS. The civil copies of many Protestant records were microfilmed by the Institut généalogique Drouin through about 1940. These microfilm have now been scanned and are available at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.ca.]&nbsp;&nbsp;Ancestry has also indexed the records, but the indexes presently do not allow soundex searches or searches for parents' names. It is possible to access the records by parish, then by year or groups of years, without using the indexes.<br>

The original civil copies 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 the "Archives and Libraries" section of this outline for more information and addresses of the regional branches. Because of rights-of-privacy laws, the public does not have access to civil copies of church records from 1900 to the present. However, you may be able to get an extract from the original church record. A few of the large Protestant churches in Montréal, the city of Québec, and the Eastern Townships still retain some of their records, but most denominations have placed their records in the conventional, synodal, or diocesan archives. The following is a list of major record repositories or headquarters for the most prominent Protestant churches in Québec. To locate addresses of parishes, write to:

'''Anglican Diocese of Montreal''' 1444 Union Avenue <br>Montréal QC CANADA H3A 2B8 <br>Telephone: 514-843-6577 Diocese of Québec<br>31 rue des Jardins <br>Québec QC CANADA G1R 4L5 <br>Telephone: 418-692-3858 The Anglican Diocese of Québec has its archives at Bishop's University. See the "Archives and Libraries" section of this outline for the address.  

'''Canadian Baptist Archives'''  

McMaster Divinity College <br>Hamilton ON CANADA L8S 4K1 <br>Telephone: 416-525-9140 ext 3511 === Lutheran === Lutheran Council in Canada <br>1512 St. James Street <br>Winnipeg MB CANADA R3H 0L2 <br>Telephone: 204-786-6707 <br>Fax: 204-783-7548

'''Archives of the Presbyterian Church of Canada'''<br>11 Soho Street, Suite 104 <br>Toronto ON CANADA M5T 1Z6 <br>Telephone: 416-595-1277 <br>Fax: 416-595-5656 The Eastern Townships Research Centre at Bishop's University has some original Presbyterian church registers for parishes near Sherbrooke. The Québec-Sherbrooke Presbytery of the Montréal-Ottawa Conference of the United Church of Canada also has its archives at Bishop's University. See the "Archives and Libraries" section of this outline for the address. === United Church of Canada === United Church Archives <br>Montréal/Ottawa Conference <br>c/o Centre d'archives de Montréal, de Laval, <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; de Lanaudiere, des Laurentides et de la Montérégie <br>1945 rue Mullins <br>Montréal QC CANADA H3K 1N9

'''INDEXES TO PROTESTANT RECORDS: '''Many English-speaking Protestant Canadians settled in the Eastern Townships section of Québec just north of the Vermont border. Major indexes include: *Broadhurst, R. Neil. ''Protestant Marriages in the District of Bedford, Quebec, 1804–1879''. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Kintracers, 1991. ([http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library]&nbsp;book 971.46 K2b.) For Brome, Missisquoi, and Shefford counties. *''Mariages, baptêmes et sépultures de Québec: district judiciaire de St-François (Index to Protestant Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials of the St. Francis Judicial District)''. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984. (On ten [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library] films beginning with film # 1381899, Item 2[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=58329&disp=Mariages%2C+bapt%C3%AAmes+et+s%C3%A9pult%20%20&columns=*,0,0 )] Text is in French and is&nbsp;for Compton, Richmond, Stanstead, Wolfe, and Sherbrooke counties up to 1879. A major index to Protestants in another part of the Eastern Townships is: *Vachon, Paul. ''Repertory of Births, Marriages, and Burials: The Anglo-Protestants of Megantic County 1826–1991''. Thetford Mines, Québec, Canada: Société généalogique de la région de l'Amiante, 1992. ([http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library] book 971.4575 K2r or fiche # 6125775.) Additional indexes to church records are listed in the Place Search of the [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp Family History Library Catalog] under: QUEBEC, [COUNTY] - CHURCH RECORDS See also the "Vital Records" section of this outline.