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Understanding Quebec Catholic Records (view source)
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They are written in French, sometimes in Latin, but as they are written according to some rules and in a specific format, it becomes easy to recognize the main parts of each record and the information they contain. You can read this article about [[Quebec Languages]] to get started. They are also handwritten, and some priests were not much more educated than their parishioners; their handwriting and spelling may be difficult to read. You can usually get decipher them by reading other surrounding records written by the same hand. | They are written in French, sometimes in Latin, but as they are written according to some rules and in a specific format, it becomes easy to recognize the main parts of each record and the information they contain. You can read this article about [[Quebec Languages]] to get started. They are also handwritten, and some priests were not much more educated than their parishioners; their handwriting and spelling may be difficult to read. You can usually get decipher them by reading other surrounding records written by the same hand. | ||
===Places=== | |||
As for the events, the priests were referring to their own "territories" in the records, that is, parishes and dioceses. Unless another type of place is specifically mentioned, like a seigneurie or a city, it should be assumed that the places mentioned are parishes. Many parishes in Quebec have the same name, and it is important to consider the geographical location of each parish, and also the year of their coming into existence, before attributing the origin of a person to a specific parish. People did not travel far in those days, and certainly not forward in time. | |||
Since parishes are communities of people, their size and location evolved, according to the movement, the growth and the density of the population. Parishes started as missions in remote areas, served by the priest of another parish, before becoming a parish of their own. As a parish becomes too large in population, or when the parishioners begin to find that the church is simply too far from where they live, other parishes are detached from the original one. Therefore, the name of the parish in the records does not necessarily reflect the geographical location we would assign to them nowadays. | |||
===Names=== | |||
===Events=== | ===Events=== | ||
====Baptisms==== | ====Baptisms==== | ||
The following information can be found in baptism records, depending on the time period of the record<ref>Bouchard, G. & LaRose, A. (1976). La réglementation du contenu des actes de baptême, mariage, sépulture, au Québec, des origines à nos jours. Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, 30(1), 67–84. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.7202/303510ar</nowiki></ref>, and also on the accuracy of the priest and how close he followed the rules. | |||
====Marriages==== | ====Marriages==== | ||
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====Burials==== | ====Burials==== | ||
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