Abitibi-Témiscamingue and Nord-du-Québec centre

Genealogy reference works at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue/Nord-du-Québec centre of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

General works

Cherchons nos ancêtres, Michel Langlois
Traité de généalogie, René Jetté
Nos Ancêtres, Gérard Lebel, 30-volume series

Genealogical dictionaries

Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes , Cyprien Tanguay
Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-Français (1608-1760), Institut Drouin
Dictionnaire généalogique des familles of Québec, des origines à 1730, René Jetté
Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (French version)
Genealogical dictionary of the Programme de recherche en démographie historique (PRDH); 47 volumes covering the 17th and 18th centuries
Dictionnaire biographique des ancêtres québécois, 1608-1700, 4 vols., Michel Langlois

Top A variety of sources of genealogical information

Registers of births, marriages and burials for all of Québec, and several for the United States, mainly New England, as well as a few for Ontario, especially the northeast sector, and a few for the western provinces and the maritime provinces.

Microfilms of Québec civil status information from the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. For our region, we have the registers of a few Témiscamingue parishes for the period from 1894-1899 (one reel only).

Microfilms of the federal censuses: partial resources for some years after 1800 and full resources for 1901.

Microfilms of a few notarial records of Québec. We have no notarial records for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region. To learn of the resources available in the network, we refer users to the index of notarial records at the ANQ and the Inventaire des greffes des notaires du Régime français (1608-1760), by Pierre-Georges Roy.

The microfilms of the consolidated index of the population: marriages and deaths for the period from 1926-1985.
Indexes with compilations of genealogical data: Loiselle, Rivest, Fabien and Houle-Campagna.

Top Archives of use for genealogical research

The archives of the various judicial courts for the five districts in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, for the period from 1891 to 2001.

Certain government archives.

Private archives of families or individuals preserving documents of interest to genealogy.

Iconographic archives, mainly those with photographs of individuals, families or groups.

Audiovisual archives, including a large quantity of recorded personal accounts of pioneers in the region, as well as films that portray daily life.

Top A reference library

Monographs on family history; telephone directories of various localities in the region; almanacs; and a number of works on Québec, regional and local history, including a large quantity of souvenir albums of parishes and municipalities in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.

Journals dealing with genealogy, including Mémoires de la Société généalogique canadienne-française; L'Ancêtre, L'Estuaire généalogique, the journal Cap-aux-Diamants and a number of other journals from family associations.

The Rapport de l'archiviste de la province de Québec, which includes a large number of summary lists of documents of the French Regime administration compiled by Pierre Georges Roy: letters patent of nobility, marriage contracts, the register of the superior council, intendants' orders, wills, etc.

TopPartners

Under an agreement we entered into with the Rouyn-Noranda school board in May 1996, an extracurricular activity is organized by the genealogy club of the École D'Iberville. Each Wednesday evening, from October to June, the students in secondary 4 and 5 are invited to come to our reading room and do research on their ancestors. This partnership also includes fund raising for the purchase of genealogy works, which are placed at the disposal of everyone who uses our centre.

In July 1998, another agreement was entered into, with the Société de généalogie Abitibi-Témiscamingue (SGAT), to enable it to hold its activities. In particular, our reading room is open on the second Saturday of each month, with a break during the summer. All genealogists can take advantage of the additional opening hours, whether or not they are members of the SGAT. The agreement also covers the purchase of genealogy works integrated into the reference library of the centre's consultation room, for all genealogists.

Top Other genealogy resources in the region

Two history societies in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region possess a wealth of genealogy works enabling genealogists to do interesting research in their field: the Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Val-d'Or and the Société d'histoire d'Amos. The latter, as a point of service established by the Archives nationales du Québec under an agreement signed in May 1989, has on loan 500 reels of microfilm of civil status records for the province of Québec.