Irish Heritage Quebec can help you with your genealogy particularly in the greater Quebec City area and environs. Contact us for such help. The following sites are of interest to those conducting genealogical searches from their own homes.
Quebec Parish registers
This will give you access to St. Patrick’s 1877 to 1918 and direct access to the index of each year.
Access to registers province wide of all faiths to 1918. The first register presented varies from parish to parish.
To use the next 4 items you must open a free family search account.
This will give you access to a small number of graves of St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Find A Grave
This will give you access to a map of the different sections in St. Patrick’s Cemetery. Scroll down to access a particular section. Once there you can click to enlarge the section and see the grave concession holder’s name.
This will allow you to research your ancestors buried in Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, now Quebec City. It covers interments from 1848 to 1904.
This will give you to access to many genealogical sources for North America including Quebec. Click on SEARCH, scroll down to the world map, click on Canada. You may want to open a free account to facilitate the viewing of documents.
This site includes data on Megantic County and St. Sylvestre genealogy, community and migration history.
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec site includes a wealth of information including the following sources.
This site gives information on heritage buildings in Quebec City. Enter a street name or specific address for an image of and some information on your ancestor’s house.
If you have family who lived/died in Montreal, the following three sites are valuable tools.
Access to passenger lists to Canada from 1865 to 1922 by ship.
Access to passenger lists to the port of Quebec City from 1865 to 1922 by the immigrant’s name.
To carry out research on your ancestors in Ireland is more of a challenge. This site will give you access to Griffith-valuations, a valuable research tool to help you establish or confirm your ancestors’ geographical position in Ireland.
An 1837 topographical description of every place in Ireland to which your ancestors may have left reference. It also provides a virtual Irish library.
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/
This will give you access to Irish Catholic parish registers in Ireland where you may find reference to your Irish ancestors. You will require a notion of where in Ireland they were from. A birth date would also be of help. Birth dates of your Irish born emigrant ancestors are sometimes found in the 1901 Canadian Census. If they married In Quebec, you may find reference to their town/parish of origin in the marriage entry in the parish registry. An ancestor’s death notice in a newspaper may reveal his place of origin. Once into the site, click on the Irish map and start hunting.
The following is a great site but currently deals with only a few of the 32 Irish counties. It will gradually deal with more and more counties.
www.irishgenealogy.ie
All of the above is free.
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