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BMS2000: B - Baptême, M – Mariage, S – Sépulture (burial)

The BMS2000 database was developed with the cooperation of 24 Québec genealogical

societies. It contains 15 million records from the 1600s into the year 2000. Has Catholic and

non-Catholic records and records from areas surrounding Québec, such as Ontario, New

Brunswick, New York, and the New England states.

http://www.bms2000.org or

FREE access with a membership to https://www.genquebec.com/en

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Notes: Minimum of two characters required for Name and First Name

Period and Location can also be used to help reduce search results

Camera icon signifies that the image of the church record exists. The images come from FamilySearch

Pay special attention to the following surnames that start with: o Saint or Sainte. Try searching with “Saint”, “St P”, “St-P”, “St. P”, or “St.P”. o O’Brian. Try searching with “Obri”, or “O bri”. o Mc, Mac i.e McDonald/MacDonald. Try searching with “Mcd”, “Mc d“, “Macd”, “Mac d”.

Pay special attention to first names of: o Charles. Try searching with just “Cha” since the record could have the name spelled as Chas or

Chal which is short for Charles o Jean-Baptiste, Jean-Paul, etc. Try searching with the second name of Baptiste or Paul. o Mary/Marie. Try searching with just “Mar”. o Elizabeth/Elisabeth. Try searching with just “Eli”.

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Notes:

Clicking on “Retain this record” will allow you to save the record to a PDF file to store on

your computer or to be printed.

Clicking on “Correction” allows you to notify BMS2000 or any errors in the record

Clicking on the camera icon will take you to FamilySearch to get the image of the church

record.

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Notes:

Clicking on “Show patronymic variants” will display the nicknames or “dit” names

available in the database. You must type the surname in full to get the list of nicknames.

Notes:

You can search for all the baptisms of children for a particular set of parents.

Click on the drop down menu, select “Parents”, and then enter the names of the

parents.

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Notes:

Search criteria can be by the Spouses’ names, the names of the Groom’s parents, or the

names of the Bride’s parents

Period and Location can also be used to help reduce search results

Notes: Searching by Groom’s parents will provide results for all the males who married with the

parents’ names of “plouf” “Jean” and mother’s surname of “pac”. Click on the record to display the marriage of the son.

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Notes: Searching by Bride’s parents will provide results for all the females who married with

the parents’ names of “plouf” “Jean” and mother’s surname of “pac”.

Click on the record to display the marriage of the daughter.

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Notes:

Search criteria can be by the name of the Deceased or the Spouse of the deceased or

the Parents of the deceased

Period and Location can also be used to help reduce search results

Try not to put the name of the Spouse, since the spouses’ name is not always identified

on the burial record.

Notes:

Searching for a burial using the names of the parents as search criteria will provide you

with results of children who died before they were married or of a person who did not

marry.

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Notes:

To print or save your records, click on Print. A pdf will be created that you could either

print or save to your computer.