French-Canadian Sources: A Guide for Family Historians

Hundreds of thousands of people born and raised in the United States are descendants of the intrepid French men and women who came to North America in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Many thousands of the descendants of these people have found that French Canadian genealogy is a fruitful and engrossing avocation. This book is designed to assist researchers by providing detailed explanations about many primary and secondary sources available to those seeking French-Canadian ancestors. Because much of the most valuable information available is in French, many non-French speaking genealogists hesitate to go to them for information about their families. It is a main goal of this book to help that researcher to feel comfortable using these French resources.

This book is a six-year collaborative effort of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society of Wisconsin's Publication Committee. The eight members of the committee worked together to compile, revise, and update articles relating to research and sources that had been published in the association's quarterly publication over a period of some fifteen years.