Hi Bertrand; You say that there is no link between the LDS and Ancestry.com. That may be true on the surface, however, up until this month, Family History Centers had free access to Ancestry.com. . As for Drouin and LDS, I agree that there are possibly records that may be seen on Drouin that are not in the LDS copies. However, what I was trying to convey was that one should check both sources for a BMS just to make sure and not rely only on the Drouin Internet collection. And since as you mention there are only 10 million records, we can all have fun for a long time!! Meilleures salutations Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Desjardins Bertrand" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "QUEBEC-RESEARCH-L" <[email protected]>; "Quebec-List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] [Q-R] Drouin 1690 - Notre-Dame - Burials >Yes, PRDH does have it on the couple & Individual page. #898. & > Acte * 72839 - no link to the death though. Possibly because the > document has not survived, or perhaps Bertrand will explain why not. > Comments : TUÉ D'UN COUP D'ÉPÉE PAR LE SIEUR DUMONT DE BLAIGNAC, > LIEUTENANT DANS LES TROUPES DE LA MARINE. SOURCE: ACTE DU NOTAIRE > BASSET EN DATE DU 10 OCTOBRE 1690 Bonjour, The explanation is that his burial, if it was recorded, did not reach us; hence no record in the repertory of B, M, S. But a notarial act, cited above, indicates he was killed on the tenth of October 1690. So we can give the date in his individual file. > > Francis T. Watters wrote: >> P.S. Are you aware that the Drouin Collection may not show all the >> BMD? That happens when the copy is taken off the one that was in the >> Greffe where the priest may have missed some entries. I've seen that >> several times. Some time whole pages are missing. Don't know why >> Ancestry.com didn't use their LDS own microfilms at least up to >> 1876. The Quebec Archives often do go beyond those years.. LDS took >> off their copies from the parishes. Contrary to what many people seem to think, The Generations Network, which is the parent company to the Ancestry sites, has no link with the LDS church; hence you can't refer to "their LDS own microfilms". Furthermore, the agreement between the Catholic church and the LDS leading to the microfilming of the Church copy in the 1970s did not give the LDS the right to replicate and eventually sell copies to outside organizations. Finally, there are cases where the church copy is missing records which are in the Greffe copy. The Drouin collection often has for the older records both copies. The thing to do of course would be to match the two series record after record; there are over 10 million, so... have fun! Bertrand Desjardins