P.-F-X., for Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix (1682-1761), blogs at Charlevoix: Blogue de la Nouvelle-France – A Blog About New France. Pierre François-Xavier de Charlevoix was an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest, voyageur, teacher, and historian who is best remembered for his Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France (1744). He is considered one of the first historians of New France. It’s great to see him circulating in the twenty-first-century blogosphere!
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Canadian historical newspapers online: a great collection of links at Kenneth R. Marks’ The Ancestor Hunt.
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Catholic Records, Naming Practices
French Canadian “dit” names
by M.C. Moran •
Here is ancestry.ca’s record listing for the baptism of Marie Cleophie [Cléophée] Cheval, daughter of Joseph Cheval and Marie Louise Goneau: And here is ancestry.ca’s record listing for the marriage of Cleophes [Marie Cléophée] Cheval to Pierre Dubeau, son of Pierre Dubeau and Louise Poirier dit Desloges: Note that an ancestry.ca user has supplied a…
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Civil Registration, Irish Records
GRO Indexes now temporarily unavailable
by M.C. Moran •
A few weeks ago, I posted a link to the GRO Indexes at IrishGenealogy.ie. And a week or two after that post, the indexes became “temporarily unavailable.” There is no indication, yet, of when they will be back online. Update: And it looks like “temporarily” is going to mean “for a very long time.” Apparently…
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Canadian Records, Census Substitutes
1836 petition of inhabitants of Bathurst and Ottawa districts
by M.C. Moran •
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is now a huge amount of LAC (Library and Archives Canada) material at Canadiana.org’s Héritage website. This material includes 94 digitized microfilm reels of LAC’s Upper Canada Sundries (RG 5 A1), 1766-1841 series. Héritage describes the series as follows: This series is part of the Civil Secretary’s Correspondence…
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Canadian Records, Protestant Records
Early Ontario Protestant parish registers online
by M.C. Moran •
The partnership between Library and Archives Canada and Canadiana.org over the next ten years involves the digitization, indexing and description of millions of personal, administrative and government documents. It will triple LAC’s digital content on the Web, and allow Canadians to access tens of millions of additional images regardless of where they live, at no charge.…