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Some researchers estimate that over 120,000 young women and men in French America have dedicated their lives to religious
service from the beginnings of New France to the present day. The birth of these people is for the most part attested in baptismal
records, however, anyone trying to follow the lives of these children to reconstruct the story of a family often loses their trace. Their
religious commitment, regularly involving a name change, often “separated them from the world”. The vow of chastity they pronounced
prevented them from getting married, leaving us with no marriage records to track them. Information about their deaths is often difficult
to find, as religious communities sometimes have their own cemeteries and registers. They have become the "forgotten in genealogy".

The Société de généalogie Saint-Hubert took on the painstaking task of identifying the members of regular and secular clergy of
French-speaking North America from the beginning of New France to the present day, and to relate them to their families. At this point,
56,784 nuns, brothers, fathers and priests have been found and linked to their parents.

Join us to see how the free website "The Forgotten in Genealogy – Clergenealogy" represents a major addition to genealogical research
in Quebec, helping researchers and genealogists retrace the complete families of the ancestors.