Canada, Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979

What is in This Collection?

This collection contains images of Catholic parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. the records include some confirmations and some index entries for Montréal and Trois-Rivières.

The great majority of registers have been well preserved by both Church and state institutions. A few have been destroyed by fire. Because the registers were made in duplicate, a copy may exist even if one was destroyed. Some of the information in the registers has been published.

The earliest, covering events through 1760 and including information from records that no longer exist, is Cyprien Tanguay's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes (Genealogical Dictionary of French Canadian Families). A supplement volume is J. Arthur Leboeuf’s Complément au Dictionnaire Tanguay (Supplement to Tanguay’s Dictionary), which is still in print.

Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.

Reading These Records

These records are in French. For help reading them see:

• France Language and Languages
• French Genealogical Word List
• French Handwriting
• Script Tutorial for French

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What Can These Records Tell Me?

The following information may be found in these records:

Collection Content

Sample Images

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  1750 Baptism

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  1705 Marriage

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  1707 Burial

Coverage Table

Records

As of 3 June 2020 the indexed portion of this collection contained the following records:

Localities

This table lists by locality the churches included in the images published in this collection. The default sort is by place. Clicking on either column heading will resort the table.