Friday, April 13, 2012

Ancestry.ca Offers FREE Access to French-Canadian Records


Ancestry.ca is offering FREE access to more than 14.5 million records of millions of people in Quebec, and France, and they will be available free from April 17-22.

Among the free collections is the Drouin database. This database spans 346 years from 1621 to 1967,  and includes  37 million names in baptism, marriage and burial records, plus a summary of church records from Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and various New England states.

The free access also includes the Tanguay collection. This large, seven-volume collection was published by the French-Canadian priest and genealogist Father Cyprien Tanguay from 1871 to 1890.

The collection includes Quebec, the Maritimes, Ontario and old French settlements in the United States and France. Tanguay traced ancestors of many early French-Canadian colonists back to Normandy, and other parts of France.

Entries in this collection details family pedigrees with baptism, marriage, and burial dates, and places.


2 comments:

Lianne said...

Eeeee! *does a happy dance*

You had me at Drouin. :D I normally search those records at the library, since it has Ancestry Library Edition, but it will be so nice to search on my faster internet, curled up on the couch, and with no closing time!

Next week's gonna be fun. Thanks for the heads up!

Anonymous said...

This is going to make up for my 1940 US Census disappointments! Thanks!