Genealogy of the French in North America

History of releases

Version Date Description

1996
Start of a systematic search for corrections to the DGFQ of René Jetté and availability on the Internet

1998
Publication of the Genealogical dictionary of our Origins, from a Word document and direct editing (i.e. without database or automatic generation of the layout)

About 2001
Start of the database merging all genealogical data of the author using Excel files.  First with marriages only, then with birth and death data

August 2005
Release on the Internet of the first public version of the database, covering early years to 1710
2006 French
July 2006 First release of the CD-ROM, in French.  This is the reference version
2006 English
September 2006
New release in English and French.  Very few changes in data.
- Autorun enabled
- Display of notes changed (the individual notes are now below the individual paragraph, in a yellow box)
2007
February 2007
New release.  Data corrected or added since the previous release.  Families 1600-1650 were completed.  The new alphabetical index allows to select directly the first letter of a family name.  Family sheets have now 6 digit so that you can more easily find and keep the sheets you decided to modify for the next release.
2007a February 2007 Both versions : Minor changes (link to immigrants/foreigners from the main page and family sheets are now dated 2007)
English version : Bug corrected when displaying birth and death data
2007b February 2007 Minor change on family sheet 000132.
2007c
April 2007
Minor changes (2 more entries in the list of corrected errors, reference to the royal line Amiot-Couvent)
2007d
May 2007
Complete database refresh
2007e May 2007 Index of couples (index\index.xls etc.) updated
2008
Oct. 2007
Complete database refresh, years 1766-1770 added and the index now includes children married after 1770

Genealogy of the French in North America
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