Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary: Difference between revisions

A supplement to Tanguay's Dictionnaire is [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=authordetails&authorno=28465&name=Leboeuf%2C+J%2E%2DArthur&columns=*,0,0 J.-Arthur Leboeuf], Complément au dictionnaire généalogique Tanguay (Supplement to Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary), 4 vols. (Montréal, families are traced to the late 1800s. Series 3 is the most complete but is not available on microfilm.

The information given in an entry may include:

* Often, an immigrant's exact place of origin in France.

Entries are in alphabetical order by the husband's name. A year in large, bold numbers indicates the beginning of a new record. (It is the year of the husband's first marriage.) The entry is a record of the husband's marriages and children.

For the English translation of common French genealogical terms and abbreviations, see “[[Quebec_Language_and_Languages#Key Words|Key Words]]” in the “Language and Languages” section of this outline.

'''''Dates'''''. Most dates have a letter in front of them. The letter “b” means a christening date, “m” means a marriage date, and “s” means a burial date.

'''''Roman Numerals'''''. Roman numerals indicate generations. A person with '''I''' beside the name is the first ancestor listed in Tanguay's Diccionnaire. '''II''' is a child of the first ancestor. '''III''' is the grandchild of the first ancestor, and so on.

The dictionary often gives an immigrant's exact place of origin in France. To trace a genealogy back to an immigrant ancestor:

* Find the name of the person's father. If only a given name is listed, the father and child had the same surname. The Roman numeral (I, II, III, etc.) by the father's name indicates the number of generations to the immigrant ancestor.  

* Find the record for the father. Look for the name of '''''his''''' father. Continue tracing the fathers' records until you come to the ancestor with '''I''' by his name. That is the immigrant ancestor.

When the events have been registered under both a proper name and a nickname, the dictionary generally refers you back to the proper name. For example, in a marriage record Jacob Lessard married Marie Louise Wolfe (Polish by nationality). In the records of their childrens' baptisms, she is named Marie-Louise ''Loupe'' or Marie-Louise ''Polonaise'' (meaning Polish). The dictionary refers the names ''Loupe'' and ''Polonaise'' back to the name ''Wolfe''. Name variations which were known in the colony before the year 1700 are indicated in Volume 1, pages xxxi and xxxii.

Sometimes children were baptized several months after their birth. The reason for these delays was the prolonged absence of the missionaries who infrequently visited the different centers of population. The families would wait for the visit of the missionary to have baptism administered to their children. Therefore, do not be surprised if several baptisms in the same family are only a few months apart.

'''p. xix:''' Survey of the etymology and history of names. (Aperçu étymologique et historique sur les noms.)<br>

'''p. 619:''' Lists of Lords of New France in 1681. It also includes a list of personnel of the different religious houses. (Tableau des seigneuries de la Nouvelle France en 1681.)

=== Vol. 3 ===

'''p. 603:''' Slaves. A list of slaves in the 17th and 18th centuries giving the name of the slave, the names of the owner, the slave's birth date, and the burial date and place of each slave. (Esclaves.)

'''p. 607:''' Illegitimate births. A statistical picture of the total births, total legitimate births, and total illegitimate births for French Canada from 1701 to 1870. (lllégitimes.)

'''p. 495:''' Alphabetical list of proper names, their variations, and nicknames. (Table alphabétique des noms d’hommes, leurs variations et surnoms.)  

'''p. 685:''' List of women for whom only the first name is mentioned in the christening. (Liste des femmes dont le nom de baptême seul est mentionné.)  

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