PRDH & Genealogy Quebec

FCHSM Members have free shared access to PRDH and Genealogy Quebec, the premier databases for researching Québec Parish and other records. You must login prior to access these databases from the Database Access page.

PRDH-IGD is a directory of all vital events (baptisms, marriages and burials) recorded by the Catholic church in Quebec and French Canada from 1621 to 1849, as well as a genealogical dictionary of families commonly referred to as “Family Reconstructions”.  The PRDH-IGD database contains over 2,500,000 records.

• To see practical examples of how PRDH-IGD can be used in genealogical research, read this article from the PRDH team.

Genealogy Quebec is a subscription based research website regrouping all of the collections and tools developed by the Drouin Institute over the course of its existence.  The website’s 15 tools and collections total for over 50 million images and files covering all of Quebec as well as part of the United States, Ontario and Acadia from 1621 to this day. Genealogy Quebec is by far the largest collection of Quebec genealogical and historical documents on the Web.

• Quick Start User Guide
• User Guide