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 ===Registration Offices===
 In 1841, the government created registration offices, which today are called the Bureau de la publicité des droits. Records of land transactions subsequent to the original grant or purchase are in the custody of the Bureau de la publicité des droits for each county or district.
-A [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_seigneuries_de_la_Nouvelle-France list of all of the seigneuries of New France], with the dates of their foundation is found at [http://www.Wikipedia.fr Wikipedia.fr]. A [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liste_des_seigneuries_%28seigneurie%29 list of the seigneuries of Quebec] is found at [http://www.Memoireduquebec.com memoireduquebec.com]. A [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/images/3/39/MdQCarte_des_seigneuries.jpg map of the seigneuries of Quebec], made by A. E. B. Courchesne in 1923, accompanies the list. Most seigneuries had a frontage of several miles along the Saint Lawrence river and estuary (Le fleuve Saint Laurent), or along a major river, although some seigneuries surrounded large lakes.<br>
-Eventually the county system introduced by the English supplanted the seigneuries for most purposes of interest to the family history researcher, but the seigneuries figure importantly in early records. Early baptismal records often refer to a newborn child's residence using the name of a seigneurie rather than a city or town.
 === Seigneurial Records  ===