By Jacques Gagné
For those who do not know precisely from where their French Canadian ancestors originated from, simply visit:
• Fichier Origine
• www.fichier.origine.com – It is free –5,700 pioneers to New France from about 1610 – Once you have located your ancestor, the individual charts will indicate in detail the origin of birth, the village, the township, the diocese, who the parents were, the church the family attended (in most cases), the present-day département, the ancient province – Please note, that the Acadian section is weak, unless the families settled into Québec before the British Conquest of 1759.
From 1610 or about to 1865, Fichierorigine.com have researched and compiled families or individuals who left France for Nouvelle France (New France)
In order to kick start a successful family search in France one must determine precisely from what village or town or city and modern-day Département one’s ancestor or ancestors originated from.
Fichierorigine.com was created precisely for this purpose and further more its is free.
From where did these pioneer families to New France originate from in France?
• Départements in France with the number of individuals or families who migrated to Québec
• Charente-Maritime – 816 individuals or families
• Seine-Maritime – 352
• Paris – 351
• Manche – 191
• Vienne – 190
• Orne – 180
• Vendée – 177
• Deux-Sèvres – 134
• Ille-et-Vilaine – 134
• Calvados – 126
• Sarthe – 126
• Maine-et-Loire – 126
• Côte-d’Armor – 99
• Gironde – 97
• Charente – 83
• Yvelines – 81
• Loire-Atlantique – 80
• Loir-et-Cher – 72
• Loiret – 67
• Côte-d’Or – 59
• Yonne – 55
• Somme – 54
• Eure – 53
• Haute-Saône – 50
• Finistère – 49
• Mayenne – 49
• Doubs – 46
• Aisne – 43
• Meuse – 43
• Pyrénées-Atlantiques – 42
• Rhône – 42
• Vosges – 42
• Lot-et-Garonne – 38
• Morbihan – 38
• Eure-et-Loir – 37
• Meurthe-et-Moselle – 36
• Marne – 35
• Haute-Marne – 34
• Haute-Garonne – 33
• Moselle – 33
• Puy-de-Dôme – 32
• Oise – 31
• Pas-de-Calais – 30
• Ardèche – 29
• Aube – 29
• Seine-et-Marne – 28
• Indre – 28
• Hérault – 27
• Aveyron – 26
• Drôme – 26
• Jura – 25
• Haute-Vienne – 24
• Saône-et-Loire – 24
• Haute-Vienne – 24
• Ain – 20
• Nord – 19
• Pyrénées-Orientales – 19
• Seine-Saint-Denis – 19
• Dordogne – 18
• Cher – 18
• Tarn – 18
• Tarn-et-Garonne – 18
• Haute-Loire – 17
• Hautes-Alpes – 17
• Vaucluse – 17
• Essonne – 17
• Gers – 16
• Cantal – 16
• Val-de-Marne – 15
• Hauts-de-Seine – 15
• Bas-Rhin – 15
• Loire – 15
• Allier – 15
• Gard – 13
• Val d’Oise – 13
• Var – 12
• Nièvre – 11
• Savoie – 11
• Corrèze – 10
• Haute-Savoie – 8
• Landes – 6
• Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 9
• Ardennes – 7
• Aude – 7
• Alpes-Maritimes – 6
• Haut-Rhin – 6
• Lot – 4
• Creuse – 3
• Lozère – 3
• Hautes-Pyrénées – 3
• Haute-Corse – 1
• Ariège – 1
• P.R.D.H. • Le Programme de recherche en démographie historique – A database of 690,000 acts of baptism, marriage, death from about 1610 in Nouvelle France (New France) – A project by the Université de Montréal. For those visiting the QFHS Library, access to PRDH is free on the Drouin La France Collection on two computers at QFHS – For those who visit the Archives nationales du Québec in all of their nine repositories, it is also free.
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