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Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes- Cyprien Tanguay

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We are very pleased to be one of the few sites offering fully searchable versions of Cyprien Tanguay’s Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes. A word of caution, these files are very large and may take a long time to load!

Please note these documents are all in DJVU format; you will need a DJVU plugin for your browser in order to read the texts. For additional information and pointers on using DJVU, see our posting on “Why DJVU and not PDF?“

8 Responses to “Dictionnaire Genealogique des Familles Canadiennes- Cyprien Tanguay”

  1. Claudette says:
    16 August 2010 at 7:49 am

    Bonjour, même avec votre DJVU Pluginfor Internet explorer
    je ne peux l’ouvrir. I am so sorry!

    lequel me conseillez-vous?

    Bravo pour votre site

  2. Mark Rabideau says:
    16 August 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Bonjour Claudette

    Perhaps this will help you: http://njlegallib.rutgers.edu/help/djvuhelp.php

    Bon chance!

  3. Colleen Callan says:
    15 December 2010 at 5:10 am

    Bon Jour,
    My great-great-uncle was Louis St. Laurent, prime Minister of Canada. I would like to know his family history dating back to the 1600´s.

  4. Mark Rabideau says:
    15 December 2010 at 6:03 am

    Hi Colleen, Have you tried checking your family history through some of our Quebec genealogy links on this page: http://www.many-roads.com/link-directory/ ? If you’d like more specific help, please feel free to contact me either via email or via the ManyRoads’ contact form. Bon chance!

  5. Thomas B. Higgins says:
    31 May 2011 at 7:12 am

    I’m using the Caminova DjVu Browser Plug-in (http://www.caminova.net/en/downloads/). It is a free download. It works fine with Mozilla Firefox 4.0.1, and is said to work with a broad range of browsers.

    What I really like about this version of Tanguay is that it is fully searchable, unlike, for example, the version at the National Archives of Quebec which is optically very crisp but in an unsearchable PDF image format. The Caminova search function is not defeated by italics and can even handle somewhat broken characters. Also, the speed with which DjVu documents can be displayed, panned, zoomed and otherwise manipulated is without equal.

    Thank you, Many Roads, for a really useful research tool!

  6. Mark Rabideau says:
    31 May 2011 at 7:26 am

    Hi Thomas, You are welcome. Be aware that there are a few places within our version of Tanguay which are not reliably searchable. Apparently it has to do with the scanned text’s clarity. I tried fixing it to no avail. …mark

  7. Chris L'Ecuyer says:
    3 November 2011 at 10:46 pm

    Hello Mark

    Thank you for placing this tool on your website.
    I have used it many time but not with your searchable database.

    I have a question that I was hoping you could help me with – there are several footnotes in this collection attached to my ancestors

    it simply says “Voy. Vol. 1 p. 387″
    would you have any idea what that refers to ?

    Any help is appreciated

    Chris

  8. Mark Rabideau says:
    4 November 2011 at 6:47 am

    Hi Chris: It likely means: see Volume 1 (of the 7) page 387. The texts are sorted by last name into two major sections. First Volume has all last names archive who lived in Quebec up until 1700. The remaining 6 volumes are in alphabetic sequence and include the years 1700 until roughly 1760. Bon chance, mon ami! …mark

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