The PRDH website of the Universite de Montreal has researched the French places of origin of the original settlers, "Pionniers." If you have access to the pre-web Dictionnaire genealogique by Rene Jette (who was part of that research group) this will also have the origin information. It is available under the names of each pioneer immigrant to Canada, not as a general list, I believe, but these would be the persons you would need the information for in any case. Neither source is free online, but PRDH subscription is not expensive and does not expire. Jette is available at French Canadian research societies in the US and Canada. The free portion of PRDH, under "pionniers" discusses what sort of detail they provide for French origins. Paul Keroack -------------------------------------------- On Sat, 9/6/14, mbmylott . via <quebec-research@rootsweb.com> wrote: Subject: [Q-R] France place names To: "Genealogy Quebec" <QUEBEC-RESEARCH@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, September 6, 2014, 6:41 PM Hi All I have a question - is there an authoritive reference I can buy or find on the internet to French location names and parishes before the French Revolution? I am overly challenged trying to consistently record names of parishes/villes/little towns, and churches in Quebec in my family trees. I purchased  Jeanette Suave White's "Guide to Quebec Catholic Parishes and Published Parish Marriage Records to help me be consistent". It helps me so I don't write something like "St Jacques, Quebec" because there are at least St Jacques de Moncalm and St Jacques le Mineur and likely many other St Jacques in Quebec. Presently I am moving on to try to establish consistency with the place and churches in France and I feel it is almost hopeless!!! Because all my ancestors came to Quebec and Acadia before the French Revolution, I want to use the "Ancien Regime" way of recording place names, provinces not departments, but it get confusing and I am always trying to consult maps without confidence that I am writing the correct name and location Any good references??? -- "Mary Beth" aka FrancoAmerican Gravy Mary Elizabeth Mylott-Fasano mbmylott@gmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~For the list web page, goto: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~unclefred/main.htm And we are on facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/QRlist/ List Archives are at: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/QUEBEC-RESEARCH ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to QUEBEC-RESEARCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message