I am in the research process right now. I’m having trouble finding my great - great grandfather’s birth certificate. I’m getting worried because I contacted someone and they said not everyone had a birth certificate in the 1800s. I can find him on census records that list him and both his parents and where they are from. But Im not sure if census records count for this application. Were you able to find actual birth certificates/records for each family member?
Yes we did! Thankfully it was only 4 or 5 generations but it was really difficult. Turns out that Quebec birth records only existed as parish records prior to some date
We used Ancestry to help build the initial family tree but after that you have to do some digging to find each province’s/state’s method of finding historical records. For Quebec that’s the BANQ. We also had an old genealogical record that a Québécois preacher wrote ages ago about the ancestral line (that’s what the French in my OP says, I’ve been studying French and knew enough to parse it)
I am in the research process right now. I’m having trouble finding my great - great grandfather’s birth certificate. I’m getting worried because I contacted someone and they said not everyone had a birth certificate in the 1800s. I can find him on census records that list him and both his parents and where they are from. But Im not sure if census records count for this application. Were you able to find actual birth certificates/records for each family member?
Yes we did! Thankfully it was only 4 or 5 generations but it was really difficult. Turns out that Quebec birth records only existed as parish records prior to some date
What sites did you use? I’m using family search and am having issues finding the records I need.
We used Ancestry to help build the initial family tree but after that you have to do some digging to find each province’s/state’s method of finding historical records. For Quebec that’s the BANQ. We also had an old genealogical record that a Québécois preacher wrote ages ago about the ancestral line (that’s what the French in my OP says, I’ve been studying French and knew enough to parse it)
The subreddit for this was massively helpful