Over the last 40 years, the Société de généalogie de Québec has built up an impressive library, including most of the best resources available, enabling genealogists to work on the history of their family.  It also has on ongoing acquisition policy that allows it to acquire the latest available resources and tools  making our library  the second best in North America, after the LDS (Mormons)

Therefore the Société is available to offer to anyone, members and non-members, a  RESEARCH SERVICE, with a fee required.

TYPES OF RESEARCH

Direct lineage

This research consists in finding the marriages of each generation, to the first ancestor who established his family in New France.  It provides the names of the contracting partners, the date and place of the event and the name of the parish when available, as well as the names of the parents of both parties.

Birth, Marriage, Death

This information is usually taken from Church records and provides, when available, the names of the parents as well as the date and place of the event.  It is important that the request includes basic information such as the parents'names and the religion of the person researched if other than Roman Catholic.

Legal contracts, deeds and wills

This type of research is mostly undertaken in registers of notaries who practised in the province of Quebec between 1640 and 1890. It is mandatory that such  request contains as much information as possible to allow successful results.  You must therefore give the names of the parties involved,  the approximate date and place where the contract was signed and the type of document or event it covered in the case of deeds.

RESEARCH FEES

METHOD OF PAYMENT

All requests must be accompanied by a check or money order for 45 $ payable to  Société de généalogie de Québec.  This initial amount is  non-refundable, and  covers administrative costs as well as research charges for the first birth, marriage or death  record.  In the case of direct lineage, the initial amount is 95 $.

For all requests (outside of Canada) must be made  in US currency.

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