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

Well neither Canada nor Quebec have "departments". We have our Provinces and in each there are counties and/or districts. As far as Churches are concerned, I would suggest that you look for the Archdioces of a specific community which will show all the Churches under their authority. See: http://www.diocesemontreal.org/en/the-church-in-montreal/our-churches/our-parishes.html If you do a Google search on a particular parish of interest for its history you will usually get the community history and start date of the parish. Doreen ----- Original Message ----- From: "mbmylott . via" <quebec-research@rootsweb.com> To: "Genealogy Quebec" <QUEBEC-RESEARCH@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2014 3:41:15 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-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