The American-French Genealogical Society's vast resources
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- More than 10,000 volumes of repertoires (marriage records),
genealogies, biographies, and histories, as well as genealogical
journals and publications of regional, national, and international
scope.
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- The four series of the Drouin Genealogical Dictionaries of
Canadian Marriages, which spans the beginning of Canada through
1935.
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DROUIN SURNAME MARRIAGE BOOKS for MALE and FEMALE, FABIEN FILE, RIVEST FILE, LOISELLE INDEX AND THE HARD TO FIND DROUIN MARRIAGES
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- Drouin marriage books, Marriage books by the male surname and Marriage books by the female surname. These books are alphabetical by the surname. One set by the Male surname and the other by the Female surname. The Drouin marriage books are for marriages (in Canada) from 1935 back to the early 1700, alphabetical by the male surname and a set by the female surnames. Once you find the marriage in the book it contains the marriage date, the marriage place, the parents of the groom and the parents of the bride. So you do not need to know where the marriage took place. Books are in English. Once you have that marriage information you could look in the Drouin microfilm and see the actual record.
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- The Loiselle Index covers the marriage records in Quebec,
Madawaska County in New Brunswick, and Manchester and Hillsboro, New
Hampshire, 1642-1963.
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- The Rivest File - The Rivest collection consists of marriage records for the Notarial
Districts of Joliette, St-Jerome, Mont-Laurier and Sorel - all in Quebec. It covers the period from the 17th century to 1972. The index is
arranged first by the surname of the bride. Under the surname of the
bride, the index is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom.
A section for anonymous names is located in the “A” section and is
arranged alphabetically by the surname of the groom. This section includes all those marriage entries for which there is either no surname
or no name for the bride. If either the bride or groom is widowed, the
record of the marriage will indicate the name of the previous spouse. To
find the name of the parents of a widow(er) it is necessary to find the
indexed entry for the first marriage. If either parent of the bride or
groom is deceased, this is indicated on the index.
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- The Fabien File is an index of births, marriages, and
deaths in Ontario, Quebec, and parts of Prince Edward Island.
- It is a two part microfilm collection consisting of 250,000 records covering the period from the 17th century to the mid 1800’s.
Part one covers Hull, Gatineau, Pontiac, Buckingham, La Petit Nation,
Eastern Ontario and Northern Ontario. Part two covers families from Quebec and Prince Edward Island.
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- The Forget Files, the life's work of Dr. Ulysses Forget, a noted
French-Canadian genealogist from Rhode Island. These records include
thousands of Franco-American marriages in Rhode Island. Most
of Dr. Forget's research has never been published and thus is
not available to the general public.
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- The “Hard To Find Drouin Marriage” films contain marriages that are not
found in the “Blue Drouin” books nor in the “Red Drouin” books. They are
arranged alphabetically by the grooms family and given name and them by
the family name and given name of the bride. These films, although not as commonly used as other reference materials
in the library, provide alternative sources for those difficult to find
ancestors. Next time you are at a dead end in your search, try one of
these alternatives and perhaps you will have a happy outcome!
- NEW The “Hard To Find Drouin Marriage”
formally only available on film now on the AFGS computers in a
digital format.
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- Microfilm and CD-Rom Records
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- Births, marriages, and deaths in Massachusetts to 1910, death
index to 1971;
- Birth, marriage, and death records of Vermont up to 1941;
- Births and marriages of Rhode Island to 1900, deaths to 1950;
- Births, marriages, and deaths of New Hampshire to 1900, and
divorces to 1938;
- Maine Marriage Index from 1892-1966 on CD-ROM.
- Drouin microfilms of vital records which was used for the Drouin
books. Over 2400 Drouin microfilms available.
- 1880 US Census
- 1881 Canadian Census
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- Computers which allow members to organize their family records,
research records on CD-ROM, access such reference material as the
Rhode Island Cemetery Transcription Project, or just learn how
computers can help them in their research.
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- AFGS's own publications, such as our popular cook-books, local
church records, books, maps, and other items of interest to
genealogists.
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