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What's New (as of March 2013)
Welcome to the Frampton Irish Website. The Frampton Irish website is dedicated to the history and genealogy of the Irish people who emigrated from Ireland to the vicinity of Frampton Township in Dorchester County of Lower Canada (Quebec) in the early 19th century. The website is provided in the English language to enable English speakers to obtain information about their Irish ancestors who lived in the Frampton area of French Quebec (QC). Frampton, Quebec is located about 30 southeast of Quebec City.
Author Patrick Redmond has granted me permission to publish his book, Irish Life in Rural Quebec, A History of Frampton. Click on "Irish Life" to access it.
Unfortunately financial support for my Frampton Irish research and operating this website has declined significantly. I was confronted with the choice of shutting down the website or redesigning it so that some revenue could be generated automatically. In the past my primary products for generating revenue was sale of my publications and compiling custom reports. I have not sold any publications for a long time so I have eliminated that feature. I have also now adjusted the price for compiling custom reports because the volume of this business has declined significantly. I have also deleted a number of other pages from the website that have proven to be unpopular. For example, the researcher's page and links page were difficult to maintain due to frequent changes to e-mail addresses and URLs.
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Frampton Irish Names Database Available: The primary new feature available is the database search. I have now placed my Frampton Irish database of 12,600 persons on-line. You can now obtain birth, marriage, and death data on the Frampton Irish families without having to contact me. This is a "pay per search" feature which I hope will generate sufficient revenue to continue operation of this website in the future. While I realize that many of you are now using the Canadian records available by subscription from Ancestry.ca to fill out the data in your family trees, my database offers a different approach than Ancestry.ca. My database has all the individuals put together in family group pages and the pages are linked to other direct relatives and in-laws. The families can also be tracked to their various migration places throughout Canada and the U.S. Ancestry.ca can only offer you searches for individual event records (if you get the correct spelling and place name that match ancestry's indexing). Further, I may have found many events on your families that you might not have due to my expertise with the numerous spelling variations of Irish surnames in French Quebec. Click on the database/search button to begin your search. If you find your Frampton Irish ancestral family in my database, you might be wondering what other information I have on your ancestors. You can obtain supplemental information about your ancestral families by requested a "custom report." Click on the services button if you want more information about the "custom report" service.
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Works in progress: The culmination of my research on the Frampton Irish since 1996 will result in publishing a "History and Genealogy of the Frampton Irish" book. I have put virtually everything I have learned about this community into my draft manuscript. I now have it about 90% complete. I hope to finish it within a year (sometime in 2013) and it will be offered for sale through this website. Also, I recently completed my research for a third volume of a "Notaire Events Index." I have found a great number of additional notaire events (land sales, agreements, mortgages, etc.) on the Frampton Irish. However, since my publications are no longer being purchased, I decided not to waste my time in preparing it for publishing. So if you desire information about notaire events in regards to your ancestral families, you will have to ask for a search of my publications through the "custom report" service that I offer on the "services" page.
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Custom reports, obtaining copies of records, and extended research: In the past I was preparing "custom reports" for a base price plus actual costs for copies and postage. This required me to prepare time consuming estimates for each request and then several potential customers did not order the report after I spent the time to make the estimate. To remedy this, I have calculated the average cost of one of this reports from all the reports I have prepared since 2007. As my attention has now been drawn to another more lucrative project, I am charging USD $50.00 for a completion of a custom report. That is what it will take to divert my attention from my other project. So if you desire to obtain a "custom report" on your Frampton Irish ancestors, see the "services" page for how to proceed.
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Records from the Register of Notaire Joseph Valentin Gagnon: Joseph Valentin Gagnon is the only 19th century notaire that actually lived in Frampton during the tenure of his service. He recorded many documents of the Frampton Irish. For whatever reason, Gagnon's register is not available on microfilm at the LDS Family History Library. I have purchased the microfilm that contains his register. I can search for, find, and copy the documents from his register for my standard records retrieval and copying service of $30.00 plus .15 cents per page of copy plus postage to your location. Most of the documents are in the English language.
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Blog:I will continue to add some blog articles as time permits. But the frequency of these blogs will not be as often as in the past.
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