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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.   These microfilm have now been scanned and are available at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.ca.]   They are arranged by parish, then by year or groups of years.   Most records have an index at the end of each year or group of years.  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.  
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.   These microfilm have now been scanned and are available at [http://www.ancestry.com/ www.ancestry.ca.]   They are arranged by parish, then by year or groups of years.   Most records have an index at the end of each year or group of years.  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.  
===University of Montreal===
===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.  While it is based on parish and other original records, it  does not have links to those original records.   A number of  burials for individuals dying after 1799 have been added to this database.  Generally these are individuals born before about 1750.   
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.  While it is based on parish and other original records, it  does not have links to those original records.   A number of  burials for individuals dying after 1799 have been added to this database.  Generally these are individuals born before about 1750. 
 
'''MISCELLANEOUS'''
 
Some of the parishes of Québec and the counties to which they belong are in Répertoire toponymique du Québec (see [[Quebec Gazetteers]]). Information about parishes, which includes dates they were founded and their locations, is in: Magnan, Hormisdas. ''Dictionnaire historique et géographique des paroisses, missions et municipalités de la Province de Québec (Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Parishes . . .)''. Arthabaska, Québec, Canada: Imprimerie d'Arthabaska, 1925. (Family History Library {{FHL|971.4 E5m|disp=book 971.4 E5m; fiche 6016524–28.)}} Text in French. Indexes to civil copies of church records for the Island of Montréal and for the city of Québec are described in [[Quebec Civil Registration]]. Genealogical dictionaries based on Catholic church records are described in the "Genealogy" section. If an ancestor disappears from the parish registers, he may have gone into the fur trade. For information about fur trade records, see [[Quebec Business Records and Commerce]].


== Protestant Church Records  ==
== Protestant Church Records  ==
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