Outaouais centre
The Outaouais centre places at the disposal of genealogists:
1. Sources
All Québec civil status information from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century (on microfilm).
The records of 22 notaries of the judicial district of Hull (1845-1951), of two notaries of the district of Pontiac (1877-1926) and of one notary of the district of Labelle (1870-1914), as well as numerous microfilmed notarial records for the other regions of Québec.
Microfilmed copies of the federal censuses, for all of Québec (1666-1842, 1851-1901).
The judicial archives of the courts of the judicial districts of Hull, Pontiac and Labelle, having sat, in particular, in Hull, Buckingham, Aylmer, Bryson, Campbell's Bay, Mont-Laurier and Maniwaki. The archives are at the disposal of researchers for the period from 1849 to the mid-1970s. Tutorships and curatorships, civil marriages, holograph wills and coroners' inquiries are included.
The microfilmed copies of archives of land concessions, formerly managed by the Québec department of lands and forests and the Québec department of agriculture. These archives are an essential source for tracing settlement patterns in the townships in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Some private archives contain unpublished family archives (Papineau, Mackay, etc.).
Top2. Resources of use to genealogy
Among the tools most used at the Outaouais centre are:
The data banks on judicial archives in the Thémis series.
The genealogical dictionaries and the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH)
data bank of the Université de Montréal, including all Catholic civil status information for the 17th and 18th centuries.
The marriage index (1926-1996) and death index (1926-1996) of the population register and the marriage registrations (1926-1994).
The indexes and registers of notaries for all of Québec (on microfiche).
The Loiselle index and the supplement to the Loiselle index, containing references to more than 500,000 marriages.
A library with additional resources, including the publications of the Archives nationales du Québec, registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, and monographs of local and regional history for the Outaouais region .
Top3. Partners
The Outaouais centre has focused its development in genealogy on a close linkage with the Société de généalogie de l'Outaouais (SGO), which is housed at the centre.
In addition to ensuring the presence of a volunteer 40 hours per week, the SGO was able to obtain, for a three-year period, the Parchemin notarial data bank covering the period from 1626 to 1784.
The SGO also obtained, last fall, the digitized documents of the Drouin-Pépin fonds.
The SGO takes part in regularly updating BMD 2000.
It has numerous cemetery registers.
The Gatineau municipal library loans it the Drouin dictionaries (approximately 200 volumes). These works are available to everyone who comes to the centre
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