Hello all, When I saw the helpful response earlier, I couldn't help but hope there might be some items for me for Adventist events, and also in Stanstead Co. I am looking for the surname BEARD/BAIRD and many of the census entries show them as Adventists. Although I have found the family in census records in Brome in the middle 1800's, I'm told there was a branch in Stanstead as well. Any listings for this surname would be most helpful - both Adventist records anywhere, and anything in Stanstead County. Thanks for any assistance. Karen

> -----Original Message----- > From: K/H Start [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 00:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Adventists > > Hello all, > When I saw the helpful response earlier, I couldn't help but > hope there might be some items for me for Adventist events, > and also in Stanstead Co. I am looking for the surname > BEARD/BAIRD and many of the census entries show them as > Adventists. Although I have found the family in census > records in Brome in the middle 1800's, I'm told there was a > branch in Stanstead as well. Any listings for this surname > would be most helpful - both Adventist records anywhere, and > anything in Stanstead County. Thanks for any assistance. The majority of all church records are available in Canada from the Quebec National Archives and in the U.S.A. from any Latter Day Saints church with a genealogy library. These films are the copies of the original church records that were made by the churches and sent to the civil authority. One easy way to check what is available is to use the online LDS Catalogue. Taking Karen's search as an example: 1. Go to http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlc/frameset_fhlc.asp 2. Click "Author Search" 3. Type in "Adventist" and click "Search" 4. This will show a list of all films with Adventist records. Just read down for those in Quebec. I see the following: Adventist Church (Brookbury, Québec) Adventist Church (Coaticook, Québec) Adventist Church (Fitch Bay, Québec) Adventist Church (Pond District, Québec) Adventist Church (South-Barnston, Québec) Adventist Church (Ways-Mills, Québec) Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Shefford County, Québec) Seventh-Day Adventist Church (South Stukely, Québec) I believe these are the only Adventist ones available from this source. 5. Clicking on "Fitch Bay", as an example, shows two titles that match. 6. Clicking on 1856-1879 gives a more detailed description and presents a "View Film Notes" button. 7. Clicking on "View Film Notes" shows what the LDS film number is and also what items you need from that film. 8. A trick I find helpful is to copy or write down that film number. Click "Home" in the bottom border of the Catalogue page. Click "Film/Fiche Search". Paste or type in the film number you found earlier. Click "Search" and it will give you a listing of _ALL_ the items on that film. In this case there are four Adventist church record sets and some Anglican ones. This works equally well for any church (or anything else for that matter) although common ones like Methodist and Anglican are easier to find by using a "Place" search in step 2. There is no way that I know to tease out the original Quebec Archives film number from this data. However, as the LDS filmed these at the Quebec Archives, once you know that a film exists and what it contains it should be fairly simple to contact the Archives and request a film with that set of contents. Over time, I have made note of some of the cross references and you may find that helpful. It is far from complete. Below is a list of relevant film numbers for church records, mostly in Brome, Richlieu, Missiquoi and Shefford counties. It is not complete but I have cross referenced some of the LDS numbers to QA numbers. You might be able to extrapolate between these to guess at other QA numbers. FHL US/CAN #1430754, Quebec Archives 124.1 FHL US/CAN #1430755, Quebec Archives 124.2 FHL US/CAN #1430756, Quebec Archives 124.3 FHL US/CAN #1430757, Quebec Archives 124.4 FHL US/CAN #1430758, Quebec Archives 124.5 FHL US/CAN #1430759, Quebec Archives 124.6 FHL US/CAN #1430760, Quebec Archives 124.7 FHL US/CAN #1430761, Quebec Archives 124.8 FHL US/CAN #1430762, Quebec Archives 124.9 FHL US/CAN #1430763, Quebec Archives 124.10 FHL US/CAN #1430764, Quebec Archives 124.11 FHL US/CAN #1430765, Quebec Archives 124.12 FHL US/CAN #1430766, Quebec Archives 124.13 FHL US/CAN #1430767, Quebec Archives 125.1 FHL US/CAN #1430768, Quebec Archives 125.2 FHL US/CAN #1430769, Quebec Archives 125.3 FHL US/CAN #1430770, Quebec Archives 125.4 FHL US/CAN #1430771 FHL US/CAN #1430772 FHL US/CAN #1430773 FHL US/CAN #1430774 FHL US/CAN #1430775 FHL US/CAN #1430776 FHL US/CAN #1430819 FHL US/CAN #1430820 FHL US/CAN #1430821 FHL US/CAN #1430822, Quebec Archives 128.44 FHL US/CAN #1430823 FHL US/CAN #1430824 FHL US/CAN #1430825 FHL US/CAN #1430826, Quebec Archives 128.48 FHL US/CAN #1430827 FHL US/CAN #1430828 FHL US/CAN #1430829, Quebec Archives 128.51 FHL US/CAN #1430830 FHL US/CAN #2027149 FHL US/CAN #2027150 FHL US/CAN #2027344 FHL US/CAN #2027345 FHL US/CAN #2027346 FHL US/CAN #2027347 FHL US/CAN #2027348 FHL US/CAN #2027349 FHL US/CAN #2027350 FHL US/CAN #2027351 FHL US/CAN #2027429 FHL US/CAN #2027430 FHL US/CAN #2027431 FHL US/CAN #2027432 FHL US/CAN #2027433 FHL US/CAN #2027434