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.
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