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-=== Introduction  ===
+===Historical Background ===
+*The largest religious group in Québec is the '''Roman Catholic Church'''. The first Catholic parish register was for Notre-Dame de Québec, founded in 1621.
-Roman Catholic parish registers are the most accurate and helpful of all the French Canadian genealogical sources. These registers contain baptism, marriage, and burial records from 1621 to the present.
+*From 1679 to 1993, most vital records for Québec were copies of church records. The province required churches to send copies to government archives.
+*On 1 January 1994, the government began to keep separate vital records.
-Church registers should be consulted for records of baptisms, marriages, and burials for all time periods in Québec history. Many records are available both in original church registers and in copies that were submitted to civil archives. The copies are called duplicate, second, or civil copies.
+*Vital records could be registered civilly without a church record as early as 1926. Beginning in the 1960s, many births and marriages were recorded only in civil registers.
-The largest religious group in Québec is the '''Roman Catholic Church'''. The first Catholic parish register was for Notre-Dame de Québec, founded in 1621. Although this register was burned, it was reconstructed in the 1640s. Most Catholic records have been carefully made and preserved from that time to the present.
-From 1679 to 1993, most vital records for Québec were copies of church records. The province required churches to send copies to government archives. On 1 January 1994, the government began to keep separate vital records.
-Vital records could be registered civilly without a church record as early as 1926. Beginning in the 1960s, many births and marriages were recorded only in civil registers.
-You should consult church registers for records of baptisms, marriages, and burials for all periods in Québec history. Many records are available both in original church registers and in copies that were submitted to civil archives. The copies are called duplicate, second, or civil copies.
-Because of rights-of-privacy laws, the public does not have access to civil copies of parish registers from 1900 to the present.
-Some of the information missing from church records is available in '''notarial records'''. Léon Lalanne was a notary for the entire Eastern Townships area between 1799 and 1815. His records included wills and marriage contracts. To find out more about his records, see "Availability" in [[Quebec Notarial Records]].
-The University of Montreal has created the [http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/home PRDH data base] from parish and other records prior to 1800. All the Catholic certificates of baptism, marriage and burial of Quebec and the Protestant marriages 1621-1849. $, but there is a free index which gives names, years, and parishes.
 == '''Catholic Church Records'''  ==