Thanks to you all - Doreen, Linnie and Paul The Quebec parishes etc are not the biggest problem...As I wrote I have Jeanne Sauve White's reference guide which is great...it is just a matter of plodding along with the Quebec locations, double checking and being consistent with the format. That is a ball of wax should I write St Jacques or St. Jacques or St-Jacques or Saint Jacques??? anyway.... what are your thoughts about formatting consistency in English when writing French place names?? but for France Linnie, your link to Denis Beauegard's pages looks promising I have a PRDH subscription too - I am wondering if I have it right when it does give a location in France . example "notre-dame, v. vermenton, ev. auxerre, bourgogne (ar. auxerre, yonne)" Church parish : notre dame? v is the village? ev is the Catholic diocese? bourgigne is the province ar is the current arrondisement? Sent: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 6:42 pm Subject: [Q-R] France place names 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-Fasanombmylott@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 -- "Mary Beth" Mary Elizabeth Mylott-Fasano mbmylott@gmail.com