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When you began researching your French-Canadian ancestry, it probably wasn’t long before someone pointed you to the Drouin collections: either the Blue Drouin, the Red Drouin, or the Little Drouin, the microfilmed or digitized versions, the online Lafrance database, or the many other records found in the Drouin Collection. With your first subscription to Ancestry.com, you probably went straight to the Drouin parish records. It’s our go-to resource for French-Canadian research.

But there are other helpful records on Ancestry. In this episode, we cover military, land and residency, and migration records. There are muster rolls, pay lists, and militia and bounty records. There are land grants and city directories which locate your ancestor between census years. And when mémé and pépé visited family across the border, there might even be records for that. Each tells a different part of your ancestor’s story. Links to each of these collections are at https://maplestarsandstripes.com/96.