Gérard Bouchard

Current issues and new prospects for computerized record linkage in the province of Quebec.

Computerized data linkage techniques and their application to family reconstitution work concerning the period 1608-1765 in Quebec are reviewed. Plans to expand population registers using marriage records are also described. (ANNOTATION)

The Processing of Ambiguous Links in Computerized Family Reconstruction

The author reports on a computerized system for automatically linking records which is currently being used in an ongoing family reconstitution project. The project is aimed at reconstructing families through linking 660000 baptism marriage and burial certificates for the Saguenay region of Quebec Canada for the years 1842-1971. This paper deals with a familiar problem encountered in all projects using automatic linkage of name-data: the ambiguities and incompatibilities generated by competing links in a context of multiple files. The advantages of the proposed linking system in overcoming this type of problem are outlined. (EXCERPT)

Family Structures and Geographic Mobility At Laterrière, 1851-1935

The following pages concisely present the results of research carried out during a period of three years on Notre-Dame de Laterri8re, a village situated about ten miles from Chicoutimi (Saguenay-Lac St-Jean region), in the north of Quebec. The work has involved systematically examining the baptism, marriage, and burial registers of the parish with the aim of reconstituting families according to the method perfected by Louis Henry. We have studied almost 10,000 records originating between 1855 and 1969, from which we have built up 2126 family files. We have also systematically examined various other sources, among them nominal census-taking (Henry and Fleury, 1965).’ Analysis of the data in question has helped us to throw light on certain

Les Exclus de la terre en France et au Québec, XVIIe-XXe siècles

Qui sont les exclus de l’heritage, de la propriete familiale ? Pourquoi le sont-ils ? Quel est leur destin ? Le present collectif reunit les textes dun colloque tenu a lUniversite de Montreal les 18 et 19 juin 1997 sur le theme de lexclusion. Pour la famille paysanne, lexclusion est souvent synonyme de marginalisation, de mobilite ou demigration. Reconstituer les itineraires des enfants exclus (non-exploitants, non-heritiers ou non-etablis) est tout un defi. Les sources font particulierement defaut ; il sagit en effet de retracer des destins construits le plus souvent dans la mobilite geographique. Lhistoire des societes rurales francaise et quebecoise permet detablir certaines constantes : ainsi, lexclusion autoritaire par le fait des parents est rare, tandis que lexclusion des femmes parait quasi universelle bien quelle soit ordinairement assortie de mesures compensatoires. Cest le cas generalement pour les exclus, les parents netant pas indifferents au sort des enfants non etablis. Sujet difficile, mais deja des pistes de recherches sont bien tracees.