David, I have to agree with you --- I have gone through many films for notaries in that are which are not included. The "preview" only gave me an opportunity to briefly check out some I had not previously. It's all good. Even though it's over there are many other opportunities...LDS is where I got most of my great finds...just takes some searching. We're getting spoiled with the online material. But I have to admit -- I love it. "David J. Ellis" <dr.ellis@physics.org> wrote: 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 Pam Wood Waugh pam@woodwaugh.com or 730 Dunhill Drive waughp@yahoo.com Orlando, FL 32825 http://www.woodwaugh.com - Family Lines http://www.rootsweb.com/~qceastwn/ - Eastern Townships of QC Research