> I consider your message very much "on topic". Absolutely the best place to > visit in the city of Quebe is the Archives nationales du Quebec at > Pavillon Louis-Jacques-Casault > Cité universitaire, C.P. 10450 > Sainte-Foy (Québec) G1V 4N1 > Tél. : (418) 643-8904 > Téléc. : (418) 646-0868 > Courriel : anq.quebec@mcc.gouv.qc.ca > > It's on the grounds of the Laval University located off the main route > leading to the west from the city of Quebec. Visit their site at > http://www.anq.gouv.qc.ca/ > > The Societe genealogique du Quebec (ANQ) is located in the same building as > the ANQ. It's hours are: mardi > mercredi > jeudi > samedi sauf le 1er du mois > > 10 h 30 à 21 h 15 > 18 h 30 -21 h 15 13 h - 16 h 10 h - 16 h > > > You should go to their Web Site at http://www.genealogie.org/club/sgq/ but > you have to click on "Bienvenue" to get meaningful information...in French. > $5 Canadian per visit to SGQ. No cost except photocopying at ANQ > > Reading microfilm of the original church registers, etc. is an art gained > after much experience. It's not tough because they are in French.The problem > is that the entries are in longhand, sometimes not too carefully written. > Further some of the original registers are in bad shape not enhanced by the > microfilming process. One technique is to go to a portion of a film where > the pastor had excellent handwriting to learn the format of each rite, which > are fairly standard. Then go back to the dates you're interested in to > tackle the hard-to-read scribbling there. > You might want to spend more time with the typewritten dictionairies and > repertoires prepared in relatively recent years. There is a marriage > repertoire for every parish, and some parishes also have baptism and burial > repetoires. Jette is an excellent dictionary for events prior to 1730. PRDH > is good for events prior to 1800. The Blue Drouin books and the Loiselle > Index are good for looking up the basic information on any marriage in > Quebec including those in the 20th Century. There are other typewritten > resources. BMS (Baptisms/Marriages/Burials) is a recent ongoing effort by a > number of Quebec societies to put all BMS through the year 2000 into a data > base. It's probably the best way to look for a baptism or a burial in Quebec > if all you have is a name (no place where it occurred.) It's likely that ANQ > has it. > If you have time to drive through the Coast of Beaupre and Ile d'Orleans, > contact me at jlesperance@hawaii.rr.com and I'll give you the details of > excellent resources at both locales. If you plan to visit Montreal, > This comes to you from a tiny dot in the middle of the Pacific. > Jerry