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==Online Records==

==Seigneurial System==

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The '''French king's grants to original seigneurs''' are in:  

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A '''map with the names of the original seigneurs, their successors in 1791, and the boundaries of the original seigneuries''' is in:  

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Detailed maps and land descriptions of the '''seigneuries along the Saint Lawrence River''' are in:  

===Types of Seigneurial Records===

Seigneurial records include:  

Some '''land grant and fealty and homage records''' are summarized in:  

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'''''Aveux and dénombrements''''' for the Saint Lawrence River Valley are transcribed in:  

::Describes each seigneury, lists its farms, and gives the names of the habitants. Has information on approximately 7,400 farms (more than 98 percent of the seigneury farms in Québec during the French régime). Includes indexes of the names of the seigneurs and habitants.

===Notarial Records  ===

{{Tip|In [[Quebec Genealogy|Quebec]], deeds and other documents about land transfers between individuals are in the notarial records. (See also [[Quebec Notarial Records]].)}}  

*Notaries ''(notaires)'' have registered '''all types of contracts since 1626'''.  

*Notarial records after 1900 are only available to the person involved or the person’s legal representative who may request copies from the judicial district office that has the records. Addresses of the judicial offices are given in Marthe Faribault-Beauregard’s ''La Généalogie: Retrouver ses ancêtres''. Current addresses of the district offices are listed in annual editions of ''the Canadian Almanac and Directory''.

==== Index  ====

::Since 1997 the ''Chambres des notaires'' has collaborated with the Archiv-Histo Society to produce the Parchemin Project (''Banque Parchemin''), an index to the files ''(greffes)'' of deceased Quebec notaries. The database is searchable online (in French) or by a set of CD-ROMs held by major research repositories. You can search the database by key word (''mot-clé'') such as your ancestor’s surname, or by the name of a local notary. There is also a map-related feature for determining the name of a notary who worked in your ancestor’s locale. The database includes other types of papers prepared by notaries, besides land-related documents. Presently the period of the documents in the database is 1635 to 1800, but the Society’s own data bank holds millions more, and they will assist you:  

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Several manuscript records relating to crown lands are at the National Archives of Canada, the Archives nationales du Québec, and online through FamilySearch.

::This book is a transcription of information from land patents. It is an especially good source to begin with if you are looking for English-speaking settlers. It gives the date of the patent and the county, township, and lot number where the grant was located. The index at the end of the volume is alphabetical only by the first letter of the surname.  

::Includes records for the years between 1842 and 1867, when Canada East (Québec) was part of the Province of Canada.  

==Registration Offices, 1841--==

The Jésuit Estates were the properties owned by the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus. These lands were confiscated by the Crown following the conquest of Canada by the British and were located entirely in Québec. These lands were first rented and then sold separate from the Crown Lands in Québec. The records for this are in the Archives nationales du Québec (series-QBC-18-20).  

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