Looking for a free canadian site to look up family tree...?

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Looking for a free canadian site to look up family tree...?

I am looking for a free site to look up my family tree...I am looking for my grandmothers side..she was part Meti I have seen some sites on here but all seem to be for the U.S.A ....

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If she is Meti, then most of the tree may not be on the internet. The Meti are not even recognized as a proper ethnic group, which is truly unfortunate.

What I've had to do in tracking my Meti lines is to do the research on the modern generations to trace my way back to the member of the First Nations who procreated with my Quebecois ancestor. This is easier after 1880 than it is before 1880. But if you follow Catholic Church records, you'll have a much easier time. The Church tracked people much better than the Crown did. The thing you're looking for as you do your research is a notation of "sauvage" next to a baby's name, or the surname "Sauvage". It was the priest's way of noting that one parent was a non-baptized Native. That would be the point that you can start looking at which First Nation tribe lived close to that parish for help in finding out which tribe you descend from and what records they have available to outside researchers.

Once you get back to the mid-1800s, you may find many of the records you need from a group of films called the Loiselle Marriage Index. It was a labor of love by Fr. Loiselle and a few nuns. The literally copied every marriage record onto index cards from Quebec and the French-speaking parts of the other provinces nearby. It's indispensible to French-Canadian research for 2 reasons, one being that you get both the names of the bride/groom, but also that you get the names of their parents. But more importantly, you get the names of any other parishes holding records on your ancestors.

Then when you get back to 1799 you can start using the PRDH from the Universite de Montreal. It's an amazing database of all birth, marriage and death records from Catholic churches and some key notaries going all the way back to the beginning of Canadian settlement. It's not free, but for about $25 you can track some mighty fine information.