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Archive reading room with a parish register on a steel table.

The names wait.

Four to six generations, $250. Ten and more, $500. Colonial times, $1,000. The further back we go, the more lives there are to find.

Begin a tree

Why Kinward

Kin is family. Inward is where it leads. Kinward joins the two, the way back inside yourself through your family, its names and the stories handed down from one generation to the next.

How a tree is made

I work in genealogy databases and in the original acts. I do not invent a lineage. Before I open a file, I need three generations of names and birthplaces: yours, your parents', your grandparents'.

The opening

You, your parents, your grandparents. Full names, and where each of them was born. Without that first page, I cannot begin.

The search

I go into the databases, then into the records themselves. A person enters the tree only when the file agrees. I will not place someone on the page because the name is tempting.

What you hold

A GEDCOM file and a PDF. Where the archive goes quiet, the generation stays blank.

The questions I keep

Ancient civilization. Genealogy. History. Quebec identities and politics. Religion as a culture people lived inside. I return often to the years after the Quiet Revolution, and to what Catholicism did to the population that passed through it.

I began with my own

My first tree was my own, in the Saguenay, around Jonquière. That is the work I now do for other families. The living stay off this site.

About this work
Handwritten page from a French Catholic baptism register.
A baptism, a parish, a date. This is the kind of page I read.
Industrial river town in the Saguenay in winter.

Saguenay, then Montréal

I work from Montréal. The family I come from is Saguenay. Both places sit in the file.

Every generation adds a table of people. The further we go, the more lives there are to find, and the more the research costs.

Four to six generations

$250

From you to the sixth generation.

  1. You
  2. Parents
  3. Grandparents
  4. Great-grandparents
  5. Generation five
  6. Generation six
  • GEDCOM file and PDF.
  • Brothers, sisters, and those who married in, when the acts name them.
  • Blank where the records stop.
Pay $250

Ten generations and more

$500

Further back, and a larger cast to find.

  1. You
  2. Parents
  3. Grandparents
  4. Great-grandparents
  5. Generation ten and more
  • GEDCOM file and PDF.
  • Each extra generation multiplies the research.
  • Blank where the records stop.
Pay $500

Colonial times

$1,000

Toward New France, if the records will carry us there.

  1. You
  2. Parents
  3. Grandparents
  4. Great-grandparents
  5. Colonial Quebec
  • Drouin, PRDH, BAnQ, and Fichier Origine.
  • The furthest reach, and the most people to research.
  • Blank where the records stop.
Pay $1,000

Write to me

Give me the opening: three generations of names and birthplaces. Then I take you to pay.

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