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Tanguay’s Dictionnaire généalogique

Jan062015

MSS-026-The PRDH

Most French-Canadian genealogists are familiar with the PRDH, but are you familiar with all three versions? Today we’ll describe each while discussing the pros and cons. To help you out, you can download a PDF copy of the Key to the Repertory, the English translation of the instructions for the printed...

Feb182014

MSS-006-Tanguay and Its Supplement

If you have spent any time at all in the French-Canadian genealogy section of a library, you have seen the seven-volume set of books known simply by the author’s surname, the Tanguay. These books contain the baptisms, marriages, burials, and constructed families from 1608-1700. At least, the ones that Cyprien Tanguay...