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NOTARY RECORDS

Notary records are another good source for discovering information on your ancestor. They are the civil legal records that are sometimes a good substitute if a marriage record is missing. For examples on civil marriage contracts vs. church marriage records see: “Marriage Contracts: A Comparison” by Carol Hamp & James P. LaLone, in MICHIGAN'S HABITANT HERITAGE, v. 8 #2 (Apr 1987), pp.27-41, it includes a listing of published Inventaires of Notaries. The following sites give background on Notary records -

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Quebec_Notarial_Records

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Quebec_Notarial_Records_%28F...

https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1471015

http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/08/21/notarial-records/

http://www.qfhs.ca/facts.php?fc=9

http://www.vt-fcgs.org/notarial.html

http://missisquoigenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/quebec-notarial-rec...

http://stephendanko.com/blog/2937

http://www.acadian-cajun.com/genac3.htm

It should be noted that Quintin Publications no longer seems to be in business.

Listing of Notaries -

http://biographi.ca/en/results.php/?ft=NOTARY

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Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on May 31, 2015 at 9:03am

Information can also be found here:

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas: A Complete Digest of the Records of All the Countries of the Western Hemisphere

French-Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists

By Patricia Keeney Geyh, Joyce Soltis Banachowski, Linda Boyea

Ancient French Archives Or Extracts from the Minutes of Council Relating to the Records of Canada While under the Government of France

By Québec (Province). Legislature. Legislative Council, François Joseph Cugnet

https://books.google.com/books?id=S7wNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=notaries+quebec&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CRlrVfKvHIuogwTt9oPYCQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwATha#v=onepage&q=notaries%20quebec&f=false

Histoire Du Notariat Au Canada Depuis La Fondation de La Colonie Jusqu' Nos Jours

By Joseph Edmond Roy

v.1

https://books.google.com/books?id=RrxYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:IDg7uX-72PIC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ax1rVeeXGdLAgwSa4YDQCQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false

v.2

https://books.google.com/books?id=R71YAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:IDg7uX-72PIC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ax1rVeeXGdLAgwSa4YDQCQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

v.3

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ir5YAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:IDg7uX-72PIC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ax1rVeeXGdLAgwSa4YDQCQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false

v.4

https://books.google.com/books?id=1LZYAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:IDg7uX-72PIC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ax1rVeeXGdLAgwSa4YDQCQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Marriage Contracts in French and Spanish Louisiana: A Study in "notarial" Jurisprudence

Hans Wolfgang Baade

Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on July 8, 2015 at 12:09pm

Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on July 20, 2015 at 11:33am

For examples of a couple of marriage contracts see - http://habitantheritage.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Marriage_C... and http://habitantheritage.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Dupuy_and_...