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Research
Resources
Connecticut
Maple Leaf & Leaflet
Library
Holdings
Useful
Links
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The
holdings of the FCGSC library include approximately 3,000 books
in both French and English including numerous repertoires of Quebec
parishes, the extensive collection of books, notes and miscellaneous
source materials compiled by Father Hector Hebert, and Connecticut
births, marriages and deaths of descendants of French-Canadians
and Acadians, extracted from many local newspapers, town and parish
records by Society members.
Main
Reference Materials
- Bona Arsenault - Histoire et Généalogie
des Acadiens (6 vols)
- Adrien Bergeron - Le Grand Arrangement
des Acadiens au Québec 1625-1925 (8 vols)
- Claude Drouin, ed.- Dictionnaire National
des Canadiens-Français 1610-1760 (3 vols)
- Gabriel Drouin, ed.- Marriages 1760-1935
(74 vols, male & female series)
- Rene Jetté, Dictionnaire Généalogique
des Familles du Québec
(1608-1730).
- Cyprien Tanguay, Dictionnaire Généalogique
des Familles Canadiennes 1608-1800. (7 vols) [Consult
online]
- Programme de Recherche en Démographie
Historique (PRDH), 45 vols., 1621-1765. [Consult
online]
Biographies
and Dictionaries
- Nos Ancêtres,
Vols. I-XXI
- Laforest. French-Our Canadian Ancestors,
Vols. 1-22
- Dauzet, Albert. Dictionnaire Etymologique
des Noms de Famille et Prénoms de France. Libraire Larousse
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography,
Vols. I-VI Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Déziel, Julien. Médaillons d'Ancêtres,
2 vols.
- Dumas, Sylvio. Les Filles du Roi en
Nouvelle-France.
- Gagné, Peter. King's Daughters and
Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673.
- Reisinger, Joy, trans. Daughters of
the King.
- Godbout, A. Origines des Familles Canadiennes-Françaises.
Special
Collections
- Brown Collection.
Over 500 volumes of English, Scottish, Irish and American
reference and research aids donated by Prescott Libbey Brown.
Many works on New England history, family genealogy, and the history
of towns and villages of eastern Connecticut.
- Family History Collection.
FCGSC holdings of published, privately printed, typescript
and manuscript family histories.
- Hebert Collection.
Extensive collection of books, notes and miscellaneous source
materials compiled by Father Hector Hebert and donated to FCGSC
by his family after his death. The collection includes tens of
thousands of file cards of births, marriages and deaths in alphabetical
order by surname and/or locality and surname; handwritten copies
of many New England parish records in over 100 notebooks; research
family data sheets, notes and letters from Canada and New England;
Acadian history books; repertories; periodicals; some microfilms
of parish records; and many miscellaneous items.
Local
History
- City Directories. Incomplete runs
for a number of Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts towns.
- Town Histories from New England
and Canada.
Maps
Old and new maps of France, New France, Acadia, Canadian
Provinces and towns, all fifty US states and most New England towns.
Periodicals
Complete runs of 22 active serial
titles and 30 inactive periodicals, including the Connecticut
Maple Leaf, Mémoires, Le Cahier des Dix, Je Me Souviens
and dozens of others.
Information
Files
- Connecticut Vital Records Card File
of French Surnames from 1850-1993. FCGSC
collection of Connecticut births, marriages and deaths of descendants
of French-Canadians and Acadians, extracted from many local newspapers,
town and parish records by Society members.
- French Surname File. Arranged alphabetically
by surname, this is a vertical file of pedigree charts, family
group sheets, newspaper and magazine articles, out-of-state obituaries,
miscellaneous family data.
- Loiselle Marriage Index. Microfiche
copy of a vast collection of index cards containing over one million
records from 520 parishes in the Province of Quebec. Covers 1642-1963.
Miscellaneous
Reference Materials
- Inventaire des
Greffes des Notaires de Régime Français.
27 vols. (incomplete), Archives Nationales du Quebec..
- Genealogy of the French Families of
the Detroit River Region 1701-1911. Denissen
- Archange Godbout, Emigrants from La
Rochelle.
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