genealogyguide2011
 

 

Amateur's guide

to Acadian genealogy.

Version 2011, Roger Hétu et Denis Sincennes, Grand-Pré

I.The family information VI. Research centres XI. Reference Internet links
II.Genealogical Societies VII. Searching on-line tips XII. Acadian Genealogy Portals
III.How to organize lineage VIII. Spelling, "dit" names XIII. Métis-Acadian and DNA
IV.Basic tools to organize IX. Homonyms, L'Aîné, Le Cadet XIV. Databases
V. General reference books X. Managing the errors XV. Biographies

 

 

I.The family information.

To a genealogist, "first things first" means to compile all written and oral information that can be obtained from his own family. Usually we know our parents and grandparents. These are our first six ancestors. We should now find out their dates and places of birth, marriages and death if deceased.

Our living grandparents can give information on their parents and grandparents. There! Without setting foot in a library we have already gathered information on nearly thirty ancestors.

If our parents and grandparents are deceased then we should consult our uncles, aunts, great-uncles, great-aunts and cousins. They share our ancestors. If we are lucky one of them has already collected genealogical information. 

 So the family is the first source of genealogical and bibliographical information on nearly thirty ancestors or five generations.

There is an estimated ten to twelve generations between us and our Acadian ancestors who came to the New World in the 1630's. Information on the first settler and three to four generations thereafter is easily found in published reference books. Therefore the genealogy challenge will be the four generation gap between what your family knows and what the reference books have.

II.Genealogical Societies and family associations.

 You now have in your file about thirty ancestors. The next step would be to join a local genealogical society. You will then have access to primary sources (original and/or microfilmed records) and secondary sources (printed or digital transcriptions). Most importantly you will, by your membership, participate in the creation, conservation and publication of these documents. Furthermore the genealogical society will teach you the right way to record your ancestral information, to use resources and the tools available. You will find addresses of genealogical societies on genealogy portals (described below). .  Consult also the family association list on the  "Centre de la Généalogie Francophone d'Amérique" portal at http://www.genealogie.org/sites/clubs.htm



III.How to organize your ancestors information.

Most genealogical societies offer beginner courses on genealogical research.   You will learn the importance of identifying and qualifying the source.  There are usually 3 categories of sources:

Primary source: The original record, usually handwritten in a register or a microfilmed copy of the same. The quality of the primary source depends on their clarity. Physical deterioration of the original, the language, and the strange handwriting are responsible for hypothetical interpretation that may lead to errors.

Secondary source: This is a primary source transcription. The alphabetized repertoire published by a genealogical society and the research centre dictionary are much easier to read and search. The quality of a secondary source depends on the reputation of the author and the correction publications that have followed.

Other sources: The information from a newspaper clip, other’s database, exchanges with a correspondent, family tradition, etc.

No matter what the source, there is always room for errors. The priest himself sometimes wrote incorrect entries in the church register. Academic research centres subsequently publish corrections to their publications. It is of the utmost importance to assign to each bit of information their origin, the category of the source, and their quality. 

IV.Basic tools to help organize your genealogy:

Pedigree chart.

Free downloadable charts at:
http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_charts/ 

New information form.

Free downloadable forms at
http://genealogy.about.com/library/download/html_fgs_type3.htm

Ahnentafel (Stradonitz) Numbering System
http://genealogy.about.com/cs/research/p/ahnentafel.htm

Genealogy software.

The genealogy software is usually a database program structured to compile and search our ancestor's information. Make sure to choose genealogy software that can import and export GEDCOM files. GEDCOM is a format that lets you share and send information to others no matter which computer or software they have. Ask your local genealogical society which software most of their members use. Having the same software makes it easier to get help when needed.

Some genealogy software are freeware. PAF is an example: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp.

Others are shareware like BK: http://www.bkwin.org/ .

Genealogy software, costing between 50 and 150$  can be bought from software stores.

V. General reference books on Acadian genealogy.

A) The most important work is Le Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Acadiennes by Stephen White.  The first part, published in two volumes, is the reconstruction of the Acadian families of 1636 to 1714. This book is published by the  "Centre d'Études Acadiennes de l'université Moncton", NB. (Out of print since 2006)
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/bon-com.pdf 

 

You will find these books in most genealogy libraries.
The second part , in the works, will cover the years 1715 to 1780.

 B) Histoire et Généalogie des Acadiens, Bona Arsenault. Six volumes.
Reconstruction of Acadian families by places: Tome 2: Port-Royal; Tome 3: Beaubassin, Grand-Pré; Tome 4: Pisiguit, Cobequid, Chipoudy et Petitcoudiac, Cap-de-Sable et Pobomcoup, Rivière St-Jean, Ristigouche; Tome 5: Plaisance, Louisbourg, Île Royale, Île St-Jean; Tome 6: St-Pierre, Miquelon, Îles de la Madeleine, Bordeaux , Belle-Île-en-Mer, Louisiane. Available in most genealogy libraries. Many corrections were published by Janet Jehn. http://www.acadiangenexch.com/pub.htm

C) Le grand arrangement des Acadiens au Québec, Adrien Bergeron.  8 volumes. Genealogy of Quebec Acadian families. Marriages & anecdotes. Many corrections needed. Do compare with Stephen White dict. and PRDH up to 1799.

D) Le PRDH . Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique de L'Université de Montréal. All the records of Old Quebec from 1621 to 1799.. Particularly interesting for the Quebec Acadian families from 1755 to 1799. Available in most Quebec genealogy libraries. Also available for a reasonable fee, on-line. http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/acces.htm

E) Fiche acadiennes du Fonds Drouin, par Jean-Pierre-Yves Pepin. Accumulated information of the Institut Drouin (a professional genealogy venture) used to write the customer's genealogy. Often available where the Drouin microfilms are available. http://drouininstitute.com/acadian/index.html

F) Microfilms Drouin. More than  2000 microfilms of Quebec records from the beginning to 1940. It covers Acadia, Ontario and some USA registers.  Available in these libraries (at least): CAM-ANQ, BANQ and SGCF in Montréal, SGQ in Québec city, CGL in Longueuil, SGL in Joliette, AFGS  in Woonsocket, RI and NEHGS in Boston, MA. Some research centres have a computerized version to facilitate the searches.  http://institutdrouin.com/microfilms/MF-Acadie.pdf

Also available on-line for a fee at
http://imagesdrouinpepin.com/main.php    and   http://ancestry.ca/

G) Microfilms des Mormons. Quebec Catholic records from 1621to 1900.  Available in most LDS Family history centres. Also available in major research centres and genealogy libraries. Available for browsing on line at https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/show#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/collection/1321742/waypoints

H) Acadian Descendants, Janet Jehn. 15 volumes of Acadian family genealogies. http://www.acadiangenexch.com/pub.htm

I) Census, registers, transcriptions of Acadian parishes available in local research centres. Such as, The  compilations of Baie Ste-Marie by Leonard Smith. The compilations of South Louisiana Records, Southwest Louisiana Records by Donald Hébert; The Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records. Also available in some LDS family history centres.

VI. Research centres.

A)    New-Brunswick:

Centre d'études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson de l'Université de Moncton.
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/

Provincial archives of New-Brunswick
http://archives.gnb.ca/Archives/Default.aspx?L=EN

B) Nova Scotia

Le Musée acadien et archives (Pubnico-West)

http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/index.htm
Les archives "Père Clarence D'Entremont"
Le fond Leander d'Entremont
Genealogies, parish registers  ("Par-en-bas"), microfilms
Dictionnaire of Stephen White and of Bona Arsenault
http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/genealogies/index.htm
http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/library/title.pdf
http://www.museeacadien.ca/french/archives/fonds/microfilms/

Pierres tombales, cimetière Église St-Pierre, Pubnico-Ouest
http://www.museeacadien.ca/pierres_tombales/

Argyle Township Court House & Archives (Argyle)

Yarmouth and Digby Co catholic register transcriptions.
Transcription of Yarmouth registers.
Funeral home records.
Family Genealogies.
Nova Scotia marriage register 1864-1918
Township book
http://www.argylecourthouse.com

Centre acadien de l'Université Ste-Anne. (Church Point)

http://centreacadien.usainteanne.ca/
Census, registers, transcriptions at the centre:
http://centreacadien.usainteanne.ca/lien-microsoft/ressources_genealogiques.htm
Microfilms:
http://centreacadien.usainteanne.ca/lien-microsoft/microfilms4.htm

Computerized NS southwest 74 Acadian family genealogies.
               You can request a family line (for a fee).

Stephen White, Bona Arsenault dictionnaries.

Kings Historical Society (Kings County Museum, Kentville)

Microfilms  of Acadian marriages, birth and census.
Computerized Acadian transcriptions. (also sold on a CD-ROM)
Microfilms of marriages, births, and deaths. Annapolis Co. 1864-1876, Kings Co. 1876-1909, Digby Co.1864-1877 (includes Baie Ste-Marie)
The Darres & MacCormick genealogy and obituary collection
http://www.okcm.ca/famhist.html

West Hants Historical Society (Windsor)

18th century maps of  Pisiguid showing the Acadian inhabitant names.
Acadian genealogies.
Fort Edward prisoners information.
Desbarres and Castle Frederick information.
http://www.westhantshistoricalsociety.ca/

The Pomquet Historical Society

http://www.pomquet.net/en/history.html


Pomquet families (names & history):
http://www.pomquet.net/en/genealogy.html

Centre Les Trois Pignons, Société St-Pierre (Chéticamp)

One thousand files on Acadian family genealogies.
http://www.lestroispignons.com/ssp/en/geneology_centre.html

PANS (Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management). (Halifax)

Acadian Genealogical Sources:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/
Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics:
http://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/
Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/deportation/
The Registers of St.Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/acadian/

C) Île-du-Prince-Edouard

Le centre de recherches acadiennes http://www.teleco.org/museeacadien/

D) Québec

BANQ. Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec
http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/accueil.jsp?bnq_langue=en
Le dictionnaire TANGUAY
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/
Registre de l'état civil du Québec de 1900 à 1907:
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/ecivil/

SGCF (La Société généalogique canadienne-française) in Montréal http://www.sgcf.com/

SGQ (Société de généalogie de Québec) in Québec http://www.sgq.qc.ca/

SGL (Société de Généalogie de Lanaudière) in Joliette http://sgl.lanaudiere.net/

SGL (Société de généalogie de Longueuil) in Longueuil http://www.sglongueuil.org

E) Canada

Library and Archives Canada  http://www.collectionscanada.ca/04/0415_e.html

Family History Centres (LDS) http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp


F) USA

University of Louisiana, Lafayette http://library.louisiana.edu/Spec/genealogical.shtml

American French Genealogical Society, 78 Earle St. Woonsocket, RI http://www.afgs.org/

The American Canadian Genealogical Society, 4 Elm Street, Manchester, NH http://www.acgs.org/

The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston MA. http://www.newenglandancestors.org/

Family History Centres (LDS) http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp

 

 

 

VII. Searching on-line  Internet:

The five basic methods to search genealogy on the internet are: web site search engines; on-line databases; message boards and mailing lists; personal emails; portal web sites.

1) A web site search engine such as «google.com» and «altavista.com» can help you find informative web pages on a given ancestor. However a simple search usually yields hundreds if not thousands of unwanted results. So it is essential to learn how to use the "advanced search mode" of the search engine to restrict the number of results. Each search engine has its own "advanced techniques" and usually explains them on its home site.

The farther back an ancestor is on your family tree the more numerous are his descendants. Consequently, the greater is the probability that one of them put data on the web. Mind you that search engines do use different "web spider robot software". It is therefore sometimes necessary to use more than one search engine to get the desired results. To learn about other search engines see (https://sites.rootsweb.com/~canqc/ressources.htm#search)

2) Searching an on-line database is usually the most successful method. Databases are sites that have a great quantity of structured data.  Databases have their own search engine. Some are completely free while others ask for a subscription. For example to use the PRDH genealogy database of The University of Montreal (baptisms, marriages, deaths of the Quebec population before 1800) one has to prepay a determined number of hits over an undetermined period. (http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/main.htm)

On the other hand the WorldConnect genealogy database (over 480 million entries) is free for all to use. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi . WorldConnect is a co-operative database to which one can contribute by uploading a Gedcom file (genealogy data). Once published on the net we get many new rewarding contacts with others researching the same ancestors.

Above is the advanced WorldConnect search engine. When I type "Melancon Charles" only, I get 1170 hits. If I add the marriage year ranging from 1720 to 1760 the search engine gives 109 hits.  If I add part of the father's name the number of results goes down to 39.  When I checked "Has Sources" only 7 hits show up. Those seven are worth looking at.

Database links are found on genealogy portal web sites

 

3) Surname Message boards and mailing lists, once archived, become like text databases where the elements are messages containing the keywords. The messages are usually genealogy queries and answers or arguments confirming or destroying hypothetical solutions. As an example see the ancestry message board at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames

Message boards links are found on genealogy portal web sites

4) The lookups service where a volunteer makes a lookup in a specified reference book or church parish records gives enormous help to anyone who lives far from city research facilities. As an example the QuebecGenWeb volunteer team offers to do lookups in 1000+ church parish records. http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/lookups.htm 

On the LanaudiereGenWeb, a volunteer will do lookups in the Stephen White Dictionary.

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~qclanaud/recherches.htm

Again you will find Lookups links on most genealogy portal web sites

If cost is no obstacle then you can contact a professional researcher who will do the work for you (taking away all the fun of finding it by yourself). Their emails are sometimes printed on genealogy portals. Be sure to select a certified researcher.

5) A genealogy PORTAL is a gateway web site that will offer information on all available genealogy resources. Some genealogy portals have global range while others are restricted to a particular ethnic group or a geographic region. « http://Francogene.com » and « http://Genealogie.org » are francophone genealogy portals. « http://Cyndislist.com » is a worldwide genealogy portal with more than two hundred thousand categorised genealogy links.

The GenWebs (Genealogy on the Web) are geographically structured genealogy portals. The purpose of the GenWeb Projects is to create a global library for genealogy research on the Web. First created in USA in 1996 (UsGenWeb.com) this model was used right away in Canada with the CanadaGenWeb at http://CanadaGenweb.org/
An exception to the rule: the AcadianGenWeb does not cover a specific geographical area.

Today «WorldGenWeb.org» show global resources and links to the continental GenWebs. The latter do the same with the national GenWebs. Then a national GenWeb like the CanadaGenweb links to the provincial Genwebs. At the end of the tree, county Genwebs, like the LanaudiereGenweb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~qclanaud/ give the most information. Once on a Genweb site you may surf up to a more general GenWeb or down to a more particular one. That way the GenWeb projects cover every part of the world. All information offered is free. In fact this is a volunteer co-operative project  to which you are invited to participate.


 

 

 

VIII. Spelling, variations, "dit" names. 

One of the challenges in doing a genealogy search is to find how the surname was written in the records. Searching for example for a Therriault, you might have to look up Terriot, Theriau etc. Our French ancestors used often nicknames and "dit names”. Those added "distinctions" came from a military alias, a place of origin, an occupation, a physical particularity, etc. To know more about "dit" names see http://www.francogene.com/quebec/ditnames.php .

You will find alias correspondence tables at (http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/ressources.htm#aliases)

IX. Homonyms, L'Aîné, Le Cadet.

Another difficulty in researching Acadian ancestors come from the usage of repetitively naming siblings with the same given name. The eldest added to his given name the distinction "L'aîné" or "Le vieux" . The younger used "Le cadet" or "Le jeune". When the brothers live in different communities they omitted the added distinction, making it hard for a genealogist to know who is who. Here is an illustration of this situation:

1)       Bernard Pellerin (son of Étienne and Jeanne Savoie) married 27 November 1713 in Port-Royal to Marguerite Gaudet (daughter of Pierre and Marie Blanchard) 

2)       Bernard Le vieux Gaudet (son of Pierre and Marie A. Blanchard) married  about 1696 Jeanne Terriot (daughter of Claude and Marie Louise Gauterot).

After having collected those marriages we would be tempted to conclude that Marguerite and Bernard Gaudet are siblings

A bit more research shows us that the parents of Bernard  are: Pierre L'Aîné Gaudet (son of Denis and Martine Gauthier) and Marie Anne Blanchard (daughter of Jean and Radegonde Lambert). While the parents of Marguerite Gaudet are Pierre Le Jeune Gaudet (son of Denis and Martine Gauthier) and Marie Blanchard (daughter of Jean and Radegonde Lambert). So Bernard and Marguerite Gaudet are not siblings but their fathers Pierre L'Aîné and Pierre Le jeune are brothers. Marie Blanchard and (Marie) Anne Blanchard are sisters.

X. Managing the errors.

The above situation shows that you will sometimes have to go back in the genealogy tree and correct errors. Don't be embarrassed, even academic dictionaries like those of Bona Arsenault and Stephen White constantly need to be corrected. Correction publications are numerous.

The farther we are from the primary source the greater the occurrence of errors. Unfortunately, the ease and speed with which we reproduce Internet data multiplies the incorrect information making some genealogies very doubtful. Be critical, compare, double check and agree to review your past hypothesis. 

 

 

XI. Reference Internet links.

 

Reference publication with a web site.

Centre d'études acadiennes de l'Université de Moncton:

PRDH de l'Université de Montréal  http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/

The Drouin Institute http://drouininstitute.com/

Acadian Descendants, Janet Jehn.
Corrections to Bona Arsenault, Janet Jehn. http://www.acadiangenexch.com/pub.htm

LDS pilot project: Catholic Parish Registers 1621-1900 (Browse Images only) http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=collectionDetails;c=1321742;t=browsable;w=0

BMS200 (24 Quebec Genealogy societies have merged their database of their library church record repertories)
http://www.bms2000.org/

 

Lookups, forums, mailing lists

GenWebQuébec lookups  http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/lookups.htm 

GenWebLanaudière lookups https://sites.rootsweb.com/~qclanaud/recherches.htm 

Book we own project https://sites.rootsweb.com/~bwo/index.html

Genealogy Help List Canada https://sites.rootsweb.com/~canghl/

Mailing lists http://lists.rootsweb.com/

Forums, Rootsweb message boards http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/script/main/rw

 

XII. Acadian Genealogy Portals

Portals

Portal Acadian-Cajun http://www.acadian-cajun.com/ 

The Acadian Memorial Archive http://www.acadianmemorial.org/english/ensembleencoreset.html

Cyndi's list  http://www.cyndislist.com/acadian.htm#General 

CanadaGenWeb http://CanadaGenweb.org/

AcadianGenweb http://acadian-genweb.acadian-home.org/frames.html

NovaScotia GenWeb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~canns/

YarmouthGenWeb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsyarmou/index.htm

DigbyGenWeb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsdigby/

KingsGenWeb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nskings/

Généalogie d'Argyle http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/argyle/html/egenealogy.htm

Portail Cumberland (Beaubassin) http://www.acadiangateway.net/ 

Genweb Québec http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/ 

GenWeb Lanaudière https://sites.rootsweb.com/~qclanaud/

Newbrunswick GenWeb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~cannb/  

PEIGenWeb http://www.islandregister.com/pegenweb.html

The Island Register http://www.islandregister.com/index.html

Acadian-Cajun Genealogy links http://www.acadian-cajun.com/genlink.htm

USGenWeb http://www.usgenweb.org/

(Louisiana) LAGenWeb http://www.lagenweb.org/

FranceGenWeb http://www.francegenweb.org/

How to do Genealogy in Louisiana http://www.acadian-cajun.com/howtobk.htm

Francogene http://www.francogene.com/acadia/index.php

Centre de généalogie francophone d’Amérique http://www.genealogie.org

Acadian & F-C Ancestral Home http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html

Aline Cormier's Genealogy Portal http://www.acadian-roots.com/
          Census records, parish records, lookups, marriages, cemeteries

Acadian Genealogy Homepage http://www.acadian.org/

Acadian Heritage of Hants Co. Nova Scotia http://www.hantscounty.com/hants_advantage/visit/acadian_heritage/index_html

 

 

XIII. Métis-Acadian and DNA

 

MÉTIS-ACADIEN
Soyez avisés que l'origine amérindienne de certaines familles de l'Acadie est fortement controversée.
Entre autres, concernant l'origine de la famille Lejeune, Stephen White et un chercheur Mi'kmak, Erich Burton,
ont des conclusions divergeantes.

mtDNA Proven Origins http://www.acadian-home.org/frames.html

Métis Acadiens https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsmhs/metis/union-acadien-amerindien.pdf

Bras d'Or First Nation http://www.brasdorfirstnation.com/

Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois http://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/

GENETIC RESEARCH: DNA

mtDNA Proven Origins http://www.acadian-home.org/origins-mtdna.html

Family Tree DNA http://www.familytreedna.com/

Projet ADN Héritage Français http://www.frenchdna.org/

DNA Worldwide http://www.dna-worldwide.com/

Oxford Ancestors http://www.oxfordancestors.com/

DNA Heritage http://www.dnaheritage.com/

DNA Solutions http://www.dnacanada.com/

mtDNA Founding Mothers of Acadia http://www.acadian-home.org/Founding-Mothers-of-Acadia.html

 

XIV. Databases

Family Genealogy web sites

CGFA list http://www.genealogie.org/sites/clubs.htm

Tim Hebert list http://www.acadian-cajun.com/genlink.htm

One Surname Databases

Blanchard http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/Blanchard.html
Boudrot http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/Boudrot.html
Boudrot-G http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/BoudrotG.html
Doucet http://www.doucetfamily.org/Genealogy/Nameindex01.htm
Fougere http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/Fougere.html
Girouard http://www.girouard.org/cgi-bin/page.pl?file=genealogy&n=9
Prejean http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/Prejean.htm
Samson http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/Samson.html
Samson-G http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/SamsonG.html
Theriot  http://terriau.org/archive/surnames.htm

 

Databases (On-Line)

General

WorldConnect (+575 million names) http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi

The PRDH (Québec BMS 1621-1799) (For a fee) http://www.genealogie.umontreal.ca/en/

LDS pilot project: Catholic Parish Registers 1621-1900 (Browse images only)

https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/show#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/collection/1321742/waypoints

Fortress of Louisbourg parish records (1713-1758)
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/louisbourg/genealogy/index.html

Public Archives of Nova Scotia http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/

BANQ. Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec
http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/accueil.jsp?bnq_langue=en
Le dictionnaire TANGUAY
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/
Registre de l'état civil du Québec de 1900 à 1907:
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/ecivil/

BMS2000 (For a fee) http://www.bms2000.org/
          Births Marriages Deaths 1620-1980

Drouin Collection
          Microfilm of original records 1620-1935
          (For a fee) http://ancestry.ca/
          (For a fee) http://imagesdrouinpepin.com/main.php

Census, Canada 1881, US 1880 and LDS ancestral file
         http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
         Canada 1851: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1325192
         Canada 1871: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1551612
         Canada 1891: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1583536
         New Brunswick 1861:https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1325208
         Nova Scotia 1861:https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1460163


La banque centrale http://www.genealogie.org/login/

Dictionnaire généalogique de l'ancienne Acadie http://www.francogene.com/dgaa/index.php

La généalogie des trente-sept familles hôtesse des «Retrouvailles 94»
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37familles.pdf

Registres de paroisses acadiennes (Haute-Aboujagane et Memramcook)
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/reg_abouj.pdf
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/reg_mem_a-k.pdf
http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/reg_memram_l-z.pdf

Registres de Saint-Charles-des-Mines de Grand-Pré
-Baptêmes https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/projets/genealogie/gpbms/baptemes/RGP-intro-baptisms.pdf
-Mariages https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/projets/genealogie/gpbms/RGPmarriages.pdf
-Sépultures https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/projets/genealogie/gpbms/burials-St-Charles-des-Mines.pdf

Fichier Origine http://www.fichierorigine.com/

Tanguay Dictionary http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/dicoGenealogie/index.html

Origins of the Pioneers of Acadia (based on 1767 BIM) http://www.acadian-home.org/acadian-origins.html

Fichier Migrants http://www.francogene.com/migrants/index.php

Racines Rochelaises http://racinesrochelaises.free.fr/

Poitou Acadie Bretagne Origine française de quelques familles acadiennes http://perso.wanadoo.fr/froux/

Acadiens de PLEUDIHEN SUR RANCE http://perso.wanadoo.fr/le.perto/2acadie1.htm

Boulogne sur mer http://brhaffre.free.fr/index.htm

St-Pierre et Miquelon http://www.grandcolombier.com/genealogie/

1604-1755 http://www.acadian-cajun.com/genacad2.htm

Acadian Roots http://www.acadian-roots.com/

Don Shankle Acadian table http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Edowneast/Acadian.html

Liste des passagers du ST-JEAN (avril 1636) http://pagesperso-orange.fr/froux/divers/stjean.htm

dBIM
Déclaration de généalogie des familles acadiennes, Belle-île en Mer http://www.rrfa.fr/bull/declgenealogie.pdf
Collection des documents inédits sur le Canada http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=11842

Leander d'Entremont Col. http://www.museeacadien.ca/french/archives/fonds/microfilms/1-27.htm

Acadian Genealogy- Pubnico area: http://www.geocities.com/teddeon509/genealog.html

Acadian Heritage of Hants Co. Nova Scotia http://www.hantscounty.com/hants_advantage/visit/acadian_heritage/index_html

ETAT-CIVIL DE BELLE-ILE-EN-MER http://www.escompte.fr/denis/index.html

ETAT-CIVIL du MORBIHAN http://scecp.cg56.fr/etat-civil/index.jsp

Census

Acadian Censuses 1671 to 1763 http://www2.umoncton.ca/cfdocs/cea/livres/doc.cfm?livre=recensements

Acadian censuses 1671 to 1820 http://www.acadian.org/census.html

Census 1671 http://philippe.caillebeau.free.fr/recensement.htm

Census 1752 Île St-Jean http://www.islandregister.com/1752.html

Censuses On-Line http://www.census-online.com/links/index.html

Census 1901 Canada http://www.collectionscanada.ca/02/02012202_e.html

Acadian census and registers http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/nscensus.html#ACADIAN

1901-1906-1911-1851-1852 Censuses http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/index.html

Census, Canada 1881, US 1880 and LDS ancestral file
         http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
         Canada 1851: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1325192
         Canada 1871: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1551612
         Canada 1891: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1583536
         New Brunswick 1861:https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1325208
         Nova Scotia 1861:https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1460163

Census of "Upper St.John river/ Madawaska Settlement" and Kamouraska, QC.
        http://www.upperstjohn.com/index.htm#census 

Census of l'Île St-Jean http://www.islandregister.com/pegenweb.html

Acadian Roots http://www.acadian-roots.com/
      (Bathurst 1861,1871; Beresford 1871,1881; Bouctouche 1861; Palmer Rd 1878; St-Basile 1861; Shediac 1851,1861;
        Shippagan 1861; St-Norbert-NB 1871; Cocagne 1891; Notre-Dame-NB 1891; Grand Digue 1891; Kent Co 1891;
      Pointe-du-Chêne 1851; Scoudouc 1851; Barachois 1851; St-André-NB 1851)

Acadian Ancestral Home Census Records http://www.acadian-home.org/census-acadia.html
         ( Acadia 1671-1755; Port-Toulouse 1716; Isle-Royale 1752; Restigouche 1760; Gaspesie 1761; Maryland 1763;
          Baie-des-Chaleurs 1765; Louisiana 1766, 1769; St-Servan 1766; Bonaventure 1774,1777; Carleton 1777;
          St-Pierre-et-Miquelon 1784; Cheticamp 1809; Margaree 1809; CB Mi'kmaq 1871, 1881, 1891)

Nova Scotia 1838 Census Record https://sites.rootsweb.com/~canns/1838census.html

Baie Sainte-Marie Vital Records 1864-1909 http://acadie1755.tripod.com/SMB_Marriages.html

 

Church registers & repertories

Catholic Parish Registers 1621-1900 (Browse Images only)
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1321742

Table of the registers of the former Acadia http://www.acadian-home.org/acadian-registers.html

Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal 1702-1755 http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/cap/acadian/

Grand-Pré BMS https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/dossiers/menudossiers.html

Acadian Roots http://www.acadian-roots.com/
       (Beaubassin; Cap Pelé; Cocagne; Memramcook; Moncton; Jacquet River; Lameque; Sackville-NB; St-Charles-NB;
         Ste-Marie-NB; Tracadie-NB; Richibouctou; Van Buren-ME; Summerside; Palmer Rd-PEI; St-Charles-PEI;
         Amherst; Margaree; Arichat; Minoudie; Plymton; Pomquet; Quinan; Saulnierville; Tracadie-NS; Weymouth)

 

Cemeteries

Grand-Pré https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsgrdpre/documents/dossiers/menudossiers.html

Pierres tombales, cimetière Église St-Pierre, Pubnico-Ouest
http://www.museeacadien.ca/pierres_tombales/

Acadian Roots http://www.acadian-roots.com/
       (New-Brunswick Cemeteries; PEI Cemeteries; Maccan-NS; River-Hebert-NS; Joggins-NS)

Acadian Ancestral Home http://www.acadian-home.org/
       ( NB: Adamsville-St-Timothee; Aldouane; Baie-Ste-Anne; Barachois-St-Henri; Bouctouche-St-Jn-B;
        Cap-Pelé-Ste-Thse; Charterville-N.D.-du-Calvaire; Claire-Fontaine; Cocagne; Collette-N-D-Fatima;
         Dieppe-St-Anselme; Escuminac; Grand-Digue-N-D-Visitation; Haute-Aboujagane-Sacré-Coeur;
         Irish-Town; Kent County [10] Cemeteries; Kent Junction; Melrose-St-Bartholomew;
         Memramcook-St-Thomas; Memramcook-East-N-D-Lourdes; Port-Elgin-St-Clement; Pte-Sapin;
         Pré-d'en-Haut-N-D-Annonciation; Rexton-Imm.-Conception; Richibouctou; Rogersville-St-Frs-Sales;
         Rosaireville-N-D-Rosaire; Sackville-St-Vincent-Ferrier; Scoudouc-St-Jacques; Shediac; Shemogue; Wiserner)
       (NS: Amherst-St-Charles)

 

"Dit" names, alias, anglicized surname.

Alias tables  http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/ressources.htm#aliases

Search engine

Rootsweb search engine  http://searches.rootsweb.com/ 

Other engine list  http://Qc.CanadaGenweb.org/ressources.htm#search 

 

XV Biographies

Bibliographies, anecdotes, stories.

Digital book Our Roots http://www.ourroots.ca/e/

Digital collection of Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec
        http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtextes/accueil.htm 

Notre mémoire en ligne http://www.canadiana.ca/en/home

History (BluPete) http://blupete.com/History.htm

Biographies dictionary of Canada http://www.biographi.ca/index2.html

Acadians Biographies 1600-1700 http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/List.htm

Acadians Biographies 1700-1763 http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/List.htm

One hundred articles from father Clarence D'Entremont
        http://www.museeacadien.ca/english/archives/articles/index.htm

Le Maître Guillaume (CEA) http://www2.umoncton.ca/cfdocs/cea/axe1/ed1.cfm

A travers les registres, C. Tanguay http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtexte/192656.pdf (long to download)

Un pélerinage au pays d'Évangéline, H-R Casgrain http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtxt/evangeline.htm

Les Sulpiciens et les prêtres des missions-étrangères en Acadie(1676-1761), H-R Casgrain
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtxt/sulpiciens.htm

Une Seconde Acadie, H-R Casgrain http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtexte/159151.pdf (long to download)

Chez les Anciens Acadiens, Causerie du Grand Père Antoine; A-T Bourque
 http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtxt/308142.pdf (long to download)

Voyage du Sieur de Diéreville en Acadie, http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtexte/15990.pdf (long to download)

La France aux colonies, Edmé Rameau de Saint-Père
http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtxt/317157.pdf (long to download)

Origines des Acadiens, Pascal Poirier; http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/numtexte/98937.pdf (long to download)

 

Guided Tour

Return to  Acadie

Acadian ancestral land according to the surname of inhabitants
Guided tour from Port Royal and along the Dauphin, Ste-Antoine, Aux Canards, Pisiguid, Ste-Croix rivers up to the Halifax region.
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsmhs/susan/Retour_en_Acadie_en.pdf

A Guided Tour of Greater Grand-Pré.

Acadian tour of Kings county.
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsmhs/roger/guidedtourgrandpre.htm

 

Roger Hétu, Denis Sincennes, revised 2011
Grand-Pré, Bassin des Mines, Acadie.

Comments, corrections,  would be  appreciated  and might be used in subsequent editions.
     https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nsmhs/webmestre.htm