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From: Roger Bartholomy <>
Subject: CD - Red Drouin --- Dict. Nat. des Canadiens Français (1608-1760
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 19:54:10 GMT


"Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Français (1608-1760)"


The American-French Genealogical Society is offering the 3 volume "Red
Drouin" on CD-ROM for $150 or $120 for members with $3.00 shipping and
handling if you live in the U.S. $5.00 for customers in Canada (All
above prices are in U.S. dollars.) See the advertisement at
http://www.afgs.org/ look under "for sale publications" for the order
form.

The CD is both IBM and MAC compatible, readable by Adobe Acrobat,
which can be installed from the CD or downloaded from the Adobe
website free of charge.(See http://www.adobe.com). The CD is
searchable only by the surname on the top of each page of the print
equivalent. Once the indexed name is found, you must page down to see
the remaining information. However, besides the price difference from
the out-of-print hardcopy, the CD takes up less shelf-space and
information may be more easily cut and pasted.

* What the Red or little (rouge or petit) Drouin contains:

The early marriages were published in a three volume set called the
"Red Drouin" from the color of its cover or "petit Drouin" from its
number of volumes. The correct title is "Dictionnaire National des
Canadiens Francais (1608-1760)". It was first produced in 1958 and
then republished in 1965. In following years (1978, 1979 and 1985)
appendices with corrections were added. The hardcover Red Drouin is
currently out-of-print but has been scanned to produce the above
CD-ROM.

Two volumes of this set contain the index to marriages for the period
indicated in the title. Territory covered besides those areas included
within the modern borders of Quebec are Acadia and some of the upper
northeast U.S. states where the French settled. It is a reliable
secondary source for the areas covered by the microfilm of original
records but less so for Acadia where Drouin relied on the work of
others or made a separate entry for parents of parties in the
registers where the marriage of the parents themselves are not found.
In these cases, the dates of the parents' marriage is left blank or
approximated and the location of the parish of residence given on the
marriage record of the child from one of the microfilmed registers.

Indexed alphabetically by grooms, each entry will also state the name
of the bride, the parents of both parties, the marriage location and
date, if known. Sometimes if the marriage record was not found but the
details of the marriage contract was known, Drouin gave the date of
the contract and the name of the notary in whose records the full text
can be found. For the first progenitor of the name to arrive in
Canada, it lists the town of origin in France or other European
country (e.g. England or Belgium) as well as occupation of the
bridegroom. It will also tell you if the new immigrant was a soldier
in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment with the name of his company
commander.

The third volume of this set discusses the history of some of the
significant ancient French founders of our country, such as Louis
Hebert, Guillaume Couillard and the forefather of Wilfrid Laurier.
These "petite histoires" often include pictures of family crests and
monuments.

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American-French Genealogical Society
PO Box 2010
Woonsocket, RI 02895

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