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Loiselle Marriage Index
     Appendix A
The Rivest Marriage Index
     Organization Of The Index
     How To Use The Index
     Names And Film Numbers
Tanguay's Genealogical Dictionary
     Information In The Dictionary
     Organization Of The Dictionary
     Common Terms And Abbreviations
     Names And Film Numbers
     How To Read An Entry
     Finding An Immigrant Ancestor
     Miscellaneous Situations
     Other Information In The Dictionary

THE RIVEST MARRIAGE INDEXLook this term up in the glossary.

Appendix B

The Rivest Marriage IndexLook this term up in the glossary. is an important source for Québec marriages. The index includes over 230,000 marriages. Most entries are handwritten. The entries are filed by the bride's surname.


Years and Localities Indexed

The Rivest Marriage Index covers Catholic marriages from 1670 to 1972. It includes the parishes from the following districts and parishes:


Information in the Index

Each record lists:

The record often shows:

  • If a parent of the bride or groom is dead.
  • If anyone in the entry is from another parish or a province other than Québec.


ORGANIZATION OF THE INDEX

The information is on cards. There is one card for each marriage. Brides are listed with their maiden surname.

The order of the cards is a little unusual:

  1. The cards are grouped together by the bride's surname. The bride's given name is ignored. The surname groups are put in alphabetical order.
  2. Within each group, the individual cards are then alphabetized by the groom's name.

For example:

Bride Groom
GRENIER, Marie ALLAIRE, Louis Jos.
GRENIER, Angélique ALLARD, Antoine
GRENIER, Elisabeth BERNARD, Jacques

Spelling variations of a surname may be filed together. For example, Grandmond and Grandmont are filed together.

Anonymous names are filed in the “A” section under “Anonymes.” They are then alphabetized by the groom's surname. These include marriage entries where:

  • There was no name for the bride.
  • There was no surname for the bride.
  • The bride's surname was not known because of an illegitimate birth.


Common Terms and Abbreviations

For the English translation of common terms that appear in the index, see “Key Words” in the “Language and Languages” section of this outline.


HOW TO USE THE INDEX


Finding a Marriage Record

Step 1. Look for the bride's surname in the Names and Film Numbers list. (If a surname appears on two films, look at the grooms' names to decide which film you need.) Write down the film number.

Step 2. Get a copy of the microfilm.

Step 3. Find the record on the microfilm.

Step 4. Use the information to find the marriage in the original parish register (see the “Church Records“ section of this outline).


Finding the Parents of a Widow or Widower:

Parents are only listed the first time a person was married. If a record has “ve,” “vve,” “vf,” or “veuf” by a person's name, the person was widowed and the previous spouse is listed. To find the names of the parents, look at the record of the previous marriage. (Remember, it will be filed under the bride's previous surname.)


NAMES AND FILM NUMBERS

The following list gives the film numbers and the first and last entries on each microfilm. The names in capital letters are the brides' surnames. The names in parentheses are the grooms' names.

Names Film No.
ABACAMOUFF-McKAY (Miko, Stéfan)—
AUBE (Plouffe, Michel) 		933142
AUBE (Plouffe, René)—
BEAUCHE(S)NE (Godin, Hormisdas) 		933143
BEAUCHE(S)NE (Goulet, Norbert)—
BELISLE (Lajoie, Henri) 		933144
BELISLE (L’Allier, Charles)—
BLANCHET(TE) (Cartier, Jean) 		933145
BLANCHE(TE) (Couture, Jacques)—
BOURQUE (Desmarais, Alfred) 		933146
BOURQUE (Desmarais, Camille)—
BRUNET (Trottier, Hormisdas) 		933147
BRUNET (Trudeau, Maxime)—
CHAMPAGNE (Cadieux, Delphis) 		933148
CHAMPAGNE (Caille, Elphège)—
CHARTRAND (Guindon, Paul) 		933149
CHARTRAND (Harrison, Armand)—
COOPER (Benjamin, Lawrence) 		933150
COOPER (Burk, Daniel)—
CROISETIERE (Allard, Oscar) 		933151
CROISETIERE (Bacon, Georges)—
DENIS (Chevrefils-Bélisle, Joseph) 		933152
DENIS (Chevrier, Aimé)—
DESROSIERS (Bayard, Joseph Arthur) 		933153
DESROSIERS (Bazinet, Edgar)—
DUFRESNE (Boyer, Eusèbe) 		933154
DUFRESNE (Brisebois, David)—
ETHIER (Lefebvre-Lasisserais, Toussaint) 		933155
ETHIER (Légaré, William)—
FORGET (Lorion, Edouard) 		933156
FORGET (Lortie, Joseph-Arthur)—
GASCON (Gingras, Guy) 		933157
GASCON (Giroux, Richard)—
GIRARD (Rénaud, Gabriel) 		933158
GIRARD (Rénaud, Jean-Paul)—
GRENIER (Mathurin, Arsnard) 		933159
GRENIER (McGibbon, Howard)—
HEROUX (St. Georges, Louis) 		933160
HEROUX (St. Jacques, Jean)—
JOYAL (Benoit, Jules) 		933161
JOYAL or JOYCE (Benoit, Michael)—
LACHAPELLE (Picotte, Albert) 		933162
LACHAPELLE (Piquette, Sem)—
LAMARCHE (Carpentier, Camille) 		933163
LAMARCHE (Carpentier, Octavien)—
LAPORTE (St. Germain, Guy) 		933164
LAPORTE (St. Jean, Olaus)—
LAVALLEE (Grignon, Aurele) 		933165
LAVALLEE (Guérard, Antoine)—
LEFEBVRE (Woodbury, Michael) 		933166
LEFEBVRE (Wright, James)—
LEVEILLE (Théroux, Benjamin) 		933109
LEVEILLE (Théroux, Bruno)—
MANEGRE (Bélanger, Jean) 		933110
MANEGRE (Bélanger, Joseph)—
MAURICE (Lepine, René) 		933111
MAURICE (Lepine, Yves)—
MONETTE (Filion, Henri) 		933112
MONETTE (Filion, Willey)—
O’CONNOR (Plumkett, James) 		933113
O’CONNOR (Power, John)—
PARENTEAU (Fagnan, Marcel) 		933114
PARENTEAU (Farly, P. Emile)—
PERREAULT (Pilon, Joseph) 		933115
PERREAULT (Pencier, Pierre)—
POIRIER (Poirier, Pacifique) 		933116
POIRIER (Poirier, Théophile)—
RANGER (Dufort-Lacouture, Jean-Baptiste) 		933117
RANGER (Enright, James)—
RIVEST (Robert, André) 		933118
RIVEST (Robert, Jean Marie)—
ROY (Dupuis, Lionel) 		933119
ROY (Dupuis, Yvon)—
SAUVE (Rodier, Paul Arthur) 		933120
SAUVE (Sabourin, Alexandre)—
TESSIER (Raymond, Marcel) 		933121
TESSIER (Régeas-Laprade, Narcisse)—
TURCOT(TE) (Plante, André) 		933122
TURCOT(TE) (Plante, Antonio)—
VINCENT (Desrosiers, Napoléon) 		933123
VlNCENT (Dubeau, Déodate)—
ZUDORSKA (Mierzurtsky, C.) 		933124

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