Greetings All, I just like to mention especially after reading David's and Pam's post. If you didn't find your records on Drouin, don't give up! I'm sure most of you know that there were two sets of records produced in Quebec, one being the church records and a similar set being the civil registration records. I assume that the Drouin are based on the Civil Registration records, which are held on microfilm at the Quebec Archives and the LDS. Somebody correct me if I am wrong. Several years ago, I had the good fortune of being able to spend an afternoon at Bishop's University with Jim Sweeny. I had seen the LDS microfilms of the churches of Nicolet and the church baptism I was looking for was not there. But to my surprise when he pulled out the actual church registry there was the baptism I was looking for plus about three more additional pages on the front that were not copied by the LDS. Jim informed me at the time that many cases the Civil Registration books which were to go on horse back to the gov't of the time, did not make it there or pages were lost. He advised me to find out who had the original church records and to examine them in person as they were the complete records, unlike the civil registration. It was enjoyable to examine the Drouin records, but I will wait till an index is available on-line before I purchase into the website. Kathleen Brock Edmonton, AB -----Original Message----- From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of David J. Ellis Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 5:19 PM To: QC-ETANGLO-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] The Notary records on Ancestry.com This may be a little late now that our free period is about to expire but I'll submit it anyway. I had been looking through the various Notaries seeking names that I knew were in my region of interest. While I got some good leads, it was tough finding other previously 'unknown' notaries who were operating in the same region or, in my case, adjoining regions. Druin's interest was French Canadian which I think accounts for the predominance of French Notaries in his list and also the omission of several well known English Notaries who operated in the Eastern Townships. The LDS has microfilms of many of the Notary Records, but again there are many omissions. Druin's list and the LDS holdings do not match but there is some overlap that can be made use of: If you cut and paste the following link into a text editor and remove any line feeds so that it is all on one line and then paste that single line into your web browser it will produce a list of all the Québec Notariats. (Notepad will do fine for editing if you are using Windows. Some email readers will render this as a complete link anyway so you may not need to edit it.) http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?dis play=authorhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&surname=Qu%C3%A9bec+Notariat+&forename= &presurname=Qu%C3%A9bec+Notariat+&preforename= Its then fairly easy to locate a District that might be relevant. Selecting a district produces a list of links, each one is to a different Notary, although the name is not shown until you select the link. Note that the language(s) used by the Notary are provided near the bottom of the page so you may defer the French ones till after all the English ones have been investigated. Now you have obtained the Notaries name, if you return to the alphabetical lists in Ancestry its easy to see if that Notary is included. If they are, searching the Repertoire is often worth the effort. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message