Thought this might be of interest to some of you listers. This came from my New England Historic Genealogical Society newsletter.
Research Recommendations:Archives Canada-France
by Michael J. Leclerc
The Archives de France, in cooperation with Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) has put together a valuable website for those researching their French-Canadian roots. Archives Canada-France makes available images of almost 40,000 documents pertaining to the history of the French in America.
Besides the LAC and BAnQ, documents come from several branches of the Archives de France. In addition to the main archives in Paris, documents come from the departmental archives of Charente-Maritime, Gironde, Pyrénées-Atlantique, and the Archives nationales d’outre-mer.
Among these records are the records of ministerial departments, records of the Admiralty, the Sovereign Council of Québec, notarial records from France, private papers, and more. You can see an alphabetical list of all of the collections online, or look at one grouped by subject.
The documents are keyword searchable. You can limit your search to the title of a document, or search the entire text. You can also limit your searches by repository or by collection.
Results show a description of the contents of the document, and a link to view an image of the original. The viewer is simple and very easy to use. You can zoom in and out on the entire document, even zoom in on a particular section. You can print the image, or download a PDF or ZIP file to your computer.
Searching was easy, and I found many documents on my ancestors. The day I searched there some issues connecting to documents on BAnQ servers, but other than that the system worked well. They are in the process of adding English versions of pages, but for now most of it is in French only.
All in all this is an excellent website that should help out those searching their French-Canadian roots. You can find out more at
http://bd.archivescanadafrance.org/sdx-222-acf-pleade-2/acf/home.shtm.
Patricia Moore
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Genealogical Tidbit - Have you come across an obiturary? If so, post it to the internet on your favorite genealogical website. You see, you may not need it but someone else might. Don't forget to provide the source of the obituary.
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