Illustration of planning a heritage trip route through Québec

Planning a French-Canadian Heritage Trip to Québec

How to plan a French-Canadian roots trip to Québec: find your ancestral parish, walk Old Québec and Île d’Orléans, and turn records into a journey to the places themselves.

Illustration of visiting an ancestral parish church and cemetery in Québec

How to Find and Visit Your Ancestral Parish in Québec

Turn a baptism record into a destination. How to identify your ancestral parish in Québec from the registers, contact it, and plan a meaningful visit to the church and cemetery.

Illustration of the Grand-Pré Acadian memorial site in Nova Scotia

Acadian Heritage Travel: Grand-Pré, the Maritimes and Beyond

An Acadian roots travel guide: Grand-Pré, the Village Historique Acadien, Memramcook, the Congrès Mondial Acadien, and the deportation trail to Louisiana.

Illustration of a Petit Canada mill town neighborhood in New England

Franco-American Heritage Travel in New England

Visit the Petits Canadas of New England: the mill towns of Lowell, Manchester, Woonsocket and Lewiston where French-Canadians built a Franco-American world.

Illustration of hands reaching across generations to reclaim French-Canadian heritage

How to Reclaim Your French-Canadian Heritage

More than a family tree: how to reclaim French-Canadian heritage through records, language, culture, living cousins and even citizenship by descent.