{"id":8292,"date":"2026-07-10T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/?page_id=8292"},"modified":"2026-07-10T10:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:11:33","slug":"st-hyacinthe-visite-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/st-hyacinthe-visite-e","title":{"rendered":"St-Hyacinthe – Visite – E"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guided tour of the
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The participants in this tour.
Front row, left to right: Ms. Marie-Marthe B\u00e9lisle, Genealogy Service coordinator and our visit\u2019s hostess,
Claire Messier (386), Mariette Messier (391);
middle row: Micheline Messier (381), Sylvie Messier (411), Lucie Marcil, Nycole Messier (409);
back row: Alain Messier (290), Anne Beauregard, Pierre T\u00e9treault, R\u00e9jean Messier (12).<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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On June 17, ten people (including seven members of our association) met at 10:00 a.m. at the Genealogy Department of the Centre d\u2019Histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe (CHSTH) for a guided tour. After a welcome address, Ms. Marie-Marthe B\u00e9lisle introduced us to the various resources available to the genealogy researchers who regularly visit the CHSTH. Following the tour, participants benefited from Ms. B\u00e9lisle\u2019s advice and expertise for over an hour. Among other things, she showed us how to easily and freely access the archives of more than 300 Quebec newspapers. All the participants expressed surprise that the resources at the CHSTH Genealogy Department are not better known\u2014outside of Saint-Hyacinthe\u2014by everyone interested in their ancestry.<\/p>

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The genealogy department holds an impressive collection of printed documents just waiting to be consulted. Regarding the available directories, suffice it to say that the department possesses records covering parishes in Quebec (6,000), Ontario (150), and Western Canada (20), as well as Franco-American communities (300)\u2014including those in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. The service also holds \u00ab\u00a0Family Genealogies (700),\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Genealogical Journals (20),\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Reference Works,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Microfilms,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Notary Indexes for the Saint-Hyacinthe Region,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0Newspaper and Funeral Home Obituaries,\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0History Books and Parish Monographs (1,200),\u00a0\u00bb and finally, a unique resource: the 250,000 family record cards compiled by Abb\u00e9 Georges-Henri Cournoyer over more than 30 years.<\/p>

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In addition to printed materials, the service offers access to the following digital tools: PRDH, BMS 2000, BSQ, BMQ, Tanguay, Benjamin Sulte, Parchemin, etc.\u2014and, above all, a knowledgeable and dedicated staff to assist you as you begin using these resources.<\/p>

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The Genealogy Service of the Centre d\u2019histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe (CHSTH) is one of the most important in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie region, welcoming researchers from both Quebec and the United States. The Service also produces materials to facilitate the work of genealogists.<\/p>

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The CHSTH Genealogy Service is open at the following times: Tuesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the last Saturday of each month from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.<\/p>

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If you are interested, a CHSTH membership costs just $30 a year, giving you access to all these wonderful tools. Here\u2019s a quick tip, by the way: registrations made from August onwards count toward the upcoming year. That means 16 months for the price of 12\u2014a real bargain!<\/p>

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If you wish to contact Ms. B\u00e9lisle or any of her colleagues, you can do so by phone (450-261-9722), email (genealog@chsth.com), or by visiting their website (chsth.com). The CHSTH is located at 650 Girouard Street East in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC (at the S\u00e9minaire de Saint-Hyacinthe).<\/p>

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A big thank you to Ms. Marie-Marthe B\u00e9lisle for welcoming us so warmly and introducing us to all these treasures!<\/p>

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R\u00e9jean Messier, Secretary-Treasurer<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guided tour of theGenealogy Department of the Centre d\u2019Histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe (CHSTH) Saturday, June 17, 2017 The participants in this tour.Front row, left to right: Ms. Marie-Marthe B\u00e9lisle, Genealogy Service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8292"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8292\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famillemessierfamily.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}