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.

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