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[felis_ultharus]

I have updated again, this time about the rise of homophobia in Britain.

I spent yesterday going over some truly ancient documents -- sessional papers of the Canadian parliament dating to 1867, and handwritten criminal accusations dating to the 1790s -- I actually got to hold these in my hands.

I'm looking very much forward to the Harry Potter, though, today. and I'm counting down to the book next Saturday. For the record, all plans are off that weekend ^_^

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[em-fish.livejournal.com]

Another visit to the archives? Perhaps one day I will head there in search of Madonna's genealogical records... La Presse reported last year that she was descended from a 'Patriote'.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Most legally-accessible geneaological records have now been put online by the Quebec government, so you never have to leave your home.

Here (http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/) is the Dictionnaire Tanguay, the massive, 19th-century work in fulltext that lists every person in New France known to have children, so you can trace them back to their roots. Except for very common names like "Tremblay," most Québécois names can be traced to a single ancestor.

I had fun for awhile, looking up people by their last names ^_^

A caveat, though -- some people didn't take their parents' real last names but their "dit-noms" -- these were like nicknames, but they were nick-last-names. They replaced the last name instead of the first, and the children could pick one or the other.

The first edition of the Tanguay only mentions original ancestors and their children. The second does the first three or four generations. Both are at the linked site.

For more complete records, this site (http://genealogiequebec.info/) has compiled Quebec's genealogy from several websites. The site isn't government-affiliated, but it has much more info than the government site, including stuff from France, and stuff after the Tanguay.

Once you have that info, you should make a trip over to the archives' massive database, Pistard (http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/recherche_simple), which frankly sounds to me like an all-night washroom.

Anyway, Pistard has the complete archives indexed, and some of it digitized. Anything not digitized, you can print up a request for and go to the archives themselves. watch out, though -- some of the archives are in other cities.

[jenjoou.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'll have to look up the Ricards and the Picards and see if I can find who I'm related to. ^_^

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

That must be neat. I don't think there are any similar resources for my ancestors, none of whom are from Quebec :/