Helpful tip for faded Quebec church records (baptism, marriage, death)
Helpful tip for anyone dealing with a faded or damaged baptism record. The church books are organized by year, and there is an index on the last few pages that may still be legible. You can access it through Ancestry or FamilySearch (it doesn't work with Genealogie Quebec since you can't go to different pages) by either entering the last few page numbers or scrolling to the end of the record. The index includes names, whether it was a baptism, death, or marriage, and the page number. I included the original, edited version, and citations from the index and Genealogie Quebec. There was no record under my great-grandfather's name on FamilySearch or Ancestry, probably because it was too faded, so I found it by using info from Genealogie Quebec and then searching the New France Quebec collection on Ancestry using the year and parish.