French-Canadian Genealogical   Society of Connecticut, Inc.  

Who We Are

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The French-Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut was organized on April 4, 1981, and incorporated the following July. Members pooled their resources to form a research library and assisted one another with their research. In June, 1983, the Society put out the first issue of our Journal, the Connecticut Maple Leaf. Word soon spread among the French-Canadian community and the Society continued to grow. By 1985, the library had outgrown its quarters and needed more room. The following year, the library and Society offices relocated to our current quarters in the old County Courthouse building on Tolland Green. A year later, the Society acquired the Hébert Acadian Collection and began building up its library’s holdings.

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The Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating genealogical and historical information about our ancestors who settled in Quebec and Acadia and their descendants. At our library in Tolland, you will find numerous resources to trace your family history back to the founders of New France and Acadia. In addition, meetings, seminars and other events provide more opportunities to learn. The Connecticut Maple Leaf, our society's journal, provides valuable articles and information to our members.

 

Our focus is on the genealogy of people of French-Canadian and Acadian heritage who settled in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and throughout New England. However, we also have information about both French and non-French inhabitants of New England and other areas of the United States and Canada. The Library’s access to Ancestry.com allows researchers to consult worldwide records, and a circulating library of history, biography, and fiction related to French Canadians is available to our members.

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