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The Library - Virtual Tour
The library of SGCF has grown
with the years thanks to donations from members and to purchases made
for a half-century. It has many sections that we invite you to
visit. Click on each picture for an enlarged view.
Getting on the site
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| Entry Door - On the east side of the St-Emile church, the door to reach the Maison de la Généalogie | Hall - Waiting the opening of the society, members can read the last communiqués. | Help Desk - The staff welcomes you at the help desk. At the same place, you can also purchase the publications from the society |
Front of the main room
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| Work room - More than 100 users can use one of the 8 tables of the library. 4 of them have an electrical outlet for portable computers. | 12 computers - To ease the access of the most recent databases, SGCF has a good set of computers. Some computers are connected to the Internet. See below a sample of our databases and other softwares. | ||
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| Parchemin - The 2003 release allows you to find fastly a notary record between 1600 and 1779 (marriage contracts, wills, sales, etc.). This database covers Québec, a part of Acadia and some records in the West. | More databases from Archiv-Histo - SGCF has most if not all CD-ROMs from Archiv-Histo, like the justice records of the French regime and the beginning of the English regime. | PRDH - This database has the summary of Early Quebec catholic records (BMB from 1621 to 1799, old censuses, confirmations and hospital lists, ship passengers, etc.) | |
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| BMS2000 - This cooperative database is the result of the work of many Quebec genealogical societies. Millions of records you can search on the computer. Records from SGCF are also in the Fichier Benoît (search with the Parchemin or Folio Bound method). | ISQ - This set of 2 databases has 5 millions of entries in all, so that you can locate a marriage or death in Quebec between 1926 and 1996. Data depends on the year. For instances, the town of the marriage is displayed from 1945. | Digital Vital Records from Drouin - The largest private genealogical project in Quebec: put on the computer all Quebec vital records from Drouin microfilms. | |
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| Catalogue Zacharie - To find a book among the 1000s of titles in the library. | Kitchen - You can bring your lunch or take a break. | ||
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| Books - SGCF has so many family histories and more genealogy related books. | Wall charts - Many genealogists are filling a wal chart with their ancestors. You can purchase one of those charts at the help desk. | Parentele - Many genealogists gave their works to the SGCF. Over two millions of marriage cards. |
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| Répertoires - SGCF has over |
Microfilms - The largest set of microfilms at the SGCF is
the vital records of Québec from the beginnings to 1940.
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Microfilm Readers and Printers - SGCF owns many readers and microfilm printers in a separate room | Répertoires from France - With mostly French roots, SGCF acquired many French répertoires and many reviews. |
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| Wall maps - There is a balcony at the rear with a wall covered by many wall maps. | References - The more common reference dictionary are at the back of the working room |
Mise à jour du site :
15 juillet 2008 par Denis Beauregard, webmestre. Copyright © 1997-2008 Société généalogique canadienne-française. |