Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines

The Drouin Databse at ACGS

 by Norm Léveillée

A couple of months ago, Lucie LeBlanc Consentino wrote to me indicating that our society the American Canadian Genealogical Society - ACGS - of Manchester NH had acquired the Drouin Database in searchable, graphic format. She wrote an article in the October issue of Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines. I am quoting from that article:

The American Canadian Genealogical Society [ACGS] of Manchester, New Hampshire recently purchased the Drouin database. All of the records contained therein once belonged to the Drouin Institute of Quebec. When the Institute closed Mr. Pepin purchased all of those records as well as the rights.
He ... decided to digitize everything onto hard drives. This is what ACGS purchased.

Yesterday I accessed the database for the first time and it was just marvelous. I was able to see my grandmother’s baptismal record as it exists in the original parish register as well as the baptisms of her siblings who were all born at Ste-Anastasie, Lyster, Quebec. I accessed the marriage of her parents, my great grandparents and came across the burial of my great great grandfather at the same time.

This database also contains parish registers for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Acadia as well as Volumes XXIII & XXIV of the French Neutrals that are part of the holdings at the Massachusetts State Archives... (and) Shediac, New Brunswick. ... some Ontario

In order to use this database, we pay by the hour. For people who do not live in the area and cannot go to ACGS, records can be requested through the ACGS Research Department. However, you should have your year and place to provide so as to save on the cost.

Go to the ACGS Website for more in formation
American Canadian Genealogical Society
Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

See the URL address below.

I had planned to do research on my own in October while I was in New Hampshire. But, something prevented me from doing so. As a result, I asked Lucie if someone at the ACGS could do the research for me. There is a cost:

I sent my request along with the check to the ACGS. There were 19 records that I wished to receive and correlate with the data in my website dedicated to my

Léveillée - Bélanger Ancestors

Within a short time, I received a CDrom with the 19 graphics contained therein. I would now like to share with you several of these files and how I correlated them to my data.

The following is a copy of a page from the 1700-1759 parish register of Notre-Dame de Beauport for my 5th maternal great-grandparents:

Paul Bélanger Bellanger & Marie Jeanne Maheu
married on 4 April 1704 in Beauport, Québec

The above graphic is only the part of the page that corresponds to my ancestors' marriage record. (Top, left of the full graphic below)

The record reads as follows in French and my translation into English:

Français
Le septième avril mil sept cent quatre, après les publications de bans requis n'ayant découvert aucun empêchement, j'ay célébré le mariage entre Paul Bellanger, fils de deffunt Nicolas et de Marie de Rainville de cette paroisse de Beauport d'une part, et de Jeanne Maheu, veuve de Joseph Garnier, de la dite paroisse d'autre part, présens au dit mariage Noël Maillou, Noël Marcou et Jean Varont habitans du dit Beauport et Charles Garnier habitant de l'Ange-Gardien, la dite épouse avec les dits Marcou et Varont déclaré ne savoir signer de ce enquis suivant l'ordonnance.
--Paul Bellanger    Noël Maillou    ---Bouillard (signatures)

English
The seventh April one thousand seven hundred four, after the publications of the required bans having found no impediment, I celebrated the marriage between Paul Bellanger, son of the deceased Nicolas and of Marie de Rainville of this parish of Beauport on the one part, and Jeanne Maheu, widow of Joseph Garnier of the aforementioned parish on the other part, present at the aforementioned marriage Noël Maillou, Noël Marcou and Jean Varont inhabitants of the mentioned Beauport and Charles Garnier inhabitant of L'Ange-Gardien, the aforementioned bride with the aforementioned Marcou and Varont have declared not knowing how to sign having inquired about this according to the statute.
--Paul Bellanger    Noël Maillou    ---Bouillard (signatures)

The full graphic of the two pages can be seen below:

 

You can view the correlation of the information from this parish register to the data on my webpages by going to the various Internet links below:

www.leveillee.net/ancestry

D22 Paul Bélanger Bellanger & Marie Jeanne Maheu
Or
D23 Paul Bélanger Bellanger & Marie Jeanne Maheu
Or
D154 Marie Jeanne Maheu & Paul Bélanger Bellanger

The following is a link to my paternal great-grandparents

Antoine Fourquin Léveillé & Sophie Lambert

The following are the links to all of the 19 graphic copies of the data researched from the Drouin Database:

Algonquin Native Americans
1. Catherine, Algonquin daughter of Assababich and Mite8ameg8k8e, b. 1 Nov 1652
2. Pierre, Algonquin son of Assababich and Mite8ameg8k8e, b. 6 May 1650

   Léveillée dit Fourquin Ancestors

3. François Delpée & Marie Angélique Couc, m. 30 Aug 1682
4. Maurice Delpée Montour & Thérèse Véronique Petit, m. 27 Jul 1729
5. Véronique Montour-Delpée & Pierre Talussier dit LaSalle m. 22 Aug 1729
6. Joseph François Fourquin Léveillé & Marie Anne Giguère m. 22 Feb 1762
7. Marguerite Talussier & Joseph Fourquin dit Léveillé m. 20 May 1787
8. Jacques Fourquin dit Léveillé & Marie St-Germain dit Gaussin/Gaucin m. 15 Jan 1798
9. Joseph Michel Fourquien Léveillé & Anne St-Germain m. 27 Jan 1812
10. Joseph Fourquin dit Léveillé & Marie Brouillard m. 18 Oct 1831
11. Joseph Fourquin Léveillé & Émélie Bergeron m. 10 Feb 1836
12. Antoine Fourquin Léveillé & Sophie Lambert m. 20 Jul 1852
13. Angèle Léveillé Fourquin & Louis Théroux m. 10 Nov 1857
14. Joseph Léveillée & Césarie Théroux m. 15 Jan 1889

    Bélanger - Théroux Ancestors

15. Nicolas Bellenger (Bélanger) & Marie DeRainville m. 11 Jan 1660
16. Paul Bélanger (Bellenger) & Marie Jeanne Maheu m. 4 Apr 1704
17. Jean-Baptiste Bélanger (Bellanger) & Marie Angélique Vésinas m. 10 Nov 1732
18. Louis Bélanger (Bellanger) & Marie Catherine Vachon m. 14 Apr 1777
19. François Bélanger & Marguerite Drouin M. 23 Aug 1814
20. Cyrille Bélanger & Victoire Fournier M. 7 Jun 1859

From ACGS website:

An ad hoc committee of volunteers has been formed to help distant members obtain primary records from our Drouin digitized microfilm collection. If the event locations and dates are known, members can send in a list of events of which they would like to have the primary record. Our volunteers will retrieve the images of the records and place them on a CD or print out the event and mail them out to the member. The only costs involved are the charges for computer time and and a minimal charge for the images, CD and postage. For more details, visit our web page (URL below, or email us at Drouin@acgs.org. This is a great opportunity to document your family tree with primary records.

Drouin Collection Usage Fees

ACGS Member Rates*		Non-member Rates
80 1-hour coupons	$80.00	80 1-hour coupons	$160.00
40 1-hour coupons	$50.00	40 1-hour coupons	$100.00
30 1-hour coupons	$45.00	30 1-hour coupons	$ 90.00
10 1-hour coupons	$25.00	10 1-hour coupons	$ 50.00
5 1-hour coupons	$15.00	5 1-hour coupons	$ 30.00
1 1-hour coupons	$ 5.00	1 1-hour coupons	$ 10.00

Last Updated: October 16, 2005

*Members must provide proof of membership at time of purchase.

These coupons have no expiration date on them and can be used over the next few years. Signup is siggested for the four computers, otherwise, it is on a first-come-first-serve basis.

If you are a distant member and want to start replacing your secondary sources with primary sources, you can make arrangements through the Research Services to do the lookups. NO COUPONS WILL BE REQUIRED for them to do research. Ask them for their new rate schedule for the Drouin Images. You can send your request by e-mail to Research@acgs.org. Their prices include lookups, copy fees and postage.