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The QFHS offers an in-house genealogical research service to help with your endeavors. In addition, we have: Queries sent to us, a list of our members interests, special links to help in your research, from Computree column. useful Internet links (libraries, archives, etc.) Hints, tips, etc. to help your research - from various sources, including an interesting article on using your digital camera to record sources. We have added a listing of Quebec strays that have been submitted to our co-ordinator. NEW !! Monument (headstone) inscriptions for cemeteries in the Montreal (and some other) areas. We also have a list of outside researchers who may be able to help you.

IN DEPTH RESEARCH - by the hour

We can conduct IN DEPTH RESEARCH for you - $20.00 an hour - we will search records within the Q.F.H.S. library and resources at outside centers. Fill out this In Depth Research Request form and enclose payment with request.

All research requests should be sent by regular postal mail with payment included. PAYMENT MUST ACCOMPANY THE SEARCH REQUEST, therefore, e-mail requests for research will not be processed.

Please put "ATTN: Research" on your envelope and use this address for all correspondence.

Quality research takes time please allow 6 to 8 weeks for us to respond to your research request

INDEX RESEARCH - specific sources

Some specific sources that can be researched in our library include:

• Non-Catholic Marriages and Deaths
• Land Grants
• City Directories
• Quebec Indexes of births, marriages and deaths
• Ontario Vital Statistics Index
• 1881 Census Index, England and Wales

For these, and other INDEX searches, please fill out and return this Index Research Request form .

Please put "ATTN: Research" on your envelope and use this address for all correspondence.

Montreal Non-Catholic Index of Marriages 1900-1925 - by Male Surname
Montreal Non-Catholic Index of Deaths 1900 - 1925

Fee $5.00 Per SURNAME for Members $8.00 Per SURNAME for Non-Members

Land Grants by the Crown from 1763 to 31 Dec. 1890.
Lower Canada (Quebec).
N.B. Does not include certain lands held under Seigneurial Tenure.
Full name and County must be stated for a search to be made.
(Either individual letters (e.g. A, B, C, etc.) or the complete set, may be purchased from our Publications committee.)

Fee: Members $5.00 per name, one spelling, Non-Members $8.00 per name, one spelling.

City Directories are available for searches for the following years:

• 1842 - 1850,
• 1852 - 1901/02,
• 1910/11,
• 1915/16,
• 1920/21,
• 1925/26,
• 1930/31.

Fee: Members $5.00 per name per year, one spelling, Non-Members $8.00 per name per year , one spelling.

St. Francis District 1815-1879 Protestant
(A portion of the Eastern Townships east of the Richelieu River)
Protestant births, marriages and deaths.
Fee: Members $5.00 per surname, one spelling, per event, Non-members $8.00 per surname, one spelling, per event.

Beauharnois Judicial District Indexes
(Chateauguay Valley area- SW portion of the province) Protestant
Births 1832-1899
Marriages 1832-1899
Deaths 1832-1899

Fee: Members $5.00 per surname, one spelling, per event, Non-members $8.00 per surname, one spelling, per event.
Copy of actual record: $2.00 per record for member; non-member $3.00 per record

Montreal Judicial District Indexes
Protestant Births 1760 - 1899;
and Burials 1766 - 1925.
Fee: Members $5.00 per surname, one spelling, per event, Non-members $8.00 per surname, one spelling, per event.

Copy of actual records up to and including 1882: $2.00 per record for members, $3.00 per record for non-members

Non-Catholic (Protestant) Marriage Index                      NEW
Montreal & Rural District - From Laprairie located east of Montreal Island, Montreal Island, West to Coteau du Lac on the mainland.

Search by FEMALE OR MALE SURNAME.

Index states the Surname, Given Names, Church, Year, Folio/Page Number

For a flat fee of $5.00 for members and $8:00 for non-members, we will print out all entries for requested surname.
One spelling of the surname. Whyte and White or Mc and Mac = 2 surnames.

This is an index unique to the Quebec Family History Society. The female surnames have been incorporated into the male surname index.

Roman Catholic Marriages
Montreal Parishes and rural parishes
(Montreal Judicial District) - 1850-1899
only from ABBA, Stephano to DWYRE, Patrick.
Cost - Member: $5.00 per surname, non-member: $8.00.

Roman Catholic - Burial/Death Indexes
(Montreal Judicial District) - 1642-1850
only from ABBOT, James to BYSAND, Joseph Thomas.
Cost - Member: $5.00 per surname, non-member: $8.00.

Levis County - Protestant Marriages 1820 - 1948
Cost - Member: $5.00 , non-member: $8.00 per surname.

Birth, or Marriage or Death, 5 year search.
Currently available are:-

• Births: 1869 to 1898,
• Marriages: 1869 to 1913,
• Deaths: 1869 to 1923.

Cost - Member: $5.00 Per surname per event, non-member: $8.00.

Information contained in Index:

• full name,
• age,
• place of birth,
• occupation,
• Census Reference Number.

Cost - Member: $5.00 Per Surname Per County, non-member: $8.00.

The Quebec Family History Society can supply a list of people willing to conduct research, for a fee, in resource centres outside of the QFHS Library.

All arrangements are made independently with the researcher; the Society does not guarantee researchers' qualifications or search results.