La réglementation du contenu des actes de baptême, mariage, sépulture, au Québec, des origines à nos jours

Once were farmers: Occupation, social mobility, and mortality during industrialization in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec 1840–1971

“…Further, marriage certificates were more likely to be signed than birth or death certificates, probably because the priests were simply following standard church rituals giving priorities to marriage certificates. The Ordonnance de Saint-Germain-enLaye (edicted in 1667) and the later edicts from the Conseil Supérieur de la Nouvelle-France (in 1727) explicitly required the signatures of the subjects of a marriage (Bouchard and Larose, 1976). For this reason, marriage certificates are, we believe, less discriminating than birth or death certificates to delineate literate from illiterate individuals, or to identify partial levels of literacy.…”

Sowing

“…At the time it was one of a handful of university-based programmes to computerize historical population data (Charbonneau et al, 1967). The PRDH family reconstitution efforts were facilitated by the exceptional circumstances of historical parish register preservation in Quebec: Catholic parish registers were maintained from the beginning of the colony and annual copies of each parish register were duplicated for civil authorities, ensuring that a comprehensive set of parish records were preserved for posterity (Bouchard & LaRose, 1976;Desjardins, 1998). The PRDH created its own microfilm images of Quebec's parish registers prior to 1700, and then turned to microfilmed images created by the Genealogical Society of Utah (Desjardins, 1998, p. 216;LaRose, 2015, p. 172) as well as a different set of microfilm images created by IGD (LaRose, 2015, p. 171).…”

“…Since the beginning of the French settlement, Catholic priests kept registers of vital events. From 1679, they were given the mandate to keep these registers in duplicate, one under ecclesiastical jurisdiction and the other, sent to courthouses, by virtue of what was to become Quebec's civil registration system (Bouchard & LaRose, 1976). This method of registration was maintained under the English Regime and continued until 1994 with the reform of the Civil Code of Quebec.…”