Hi you all Notary records are the great untapped genealogy family history resource in Quebec. They start about 1608 and go right up to now. After 1880 or so the originals may not be microfilmed, before that most are available at your local Archives National du Quebec or in case of Sherbrooke, at the SGCE which was the topic of my earlier email, about 3 days ago. Marlene Simmons has an excellent article on this topic, if you have not seen it go to http://www.virtuel.qc.ca/simmons/ Basically each town had one or more notaries, and the Townships were lucky, quite a few wrote English contracts. So it a matter of picking the town, date and finding out what notaries practiced there. So I do not promise a quick answer, but thats my speciality.If you would like to know more, let me have your needs by date and town on email. Will do my best to answer within ten days. Marcel Benoit bunker.books@videotron.ca http://www.abebooks.com/home/BENOITBOOKS/ ---------- > From: T Coleman <tcoleman@sympatico.ca> > To: QC-ETANGLO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] notary records > Date: August 8, 2000 3:36 PM > > I am wondering if someone could advise me on what the actual > name is of where people in Québec recorded their wills etc. > with notaries...and how one would go about getting some > information from these records. > > Thankyou.