French Canadian database

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

Has anyone here, who works with French Canadian data, ever used, or heard of, the BALSAC database? It a population file that has more the 4 million records about nearly 5 million individuals covering from the founders to contemporary times. As far as I can tell, it is only available to scientific researchers who are associated with research institutions. I heard about it from an article titled "On the genes, genealogies, and geographies of Quebec." (Luke Anderson-Trocme, et al.) in the 26 May 2023 issue of Science magazine.

Here is a link to a short description in French and English.
https://balsac.uqac.ca/wp-content/up...12/I-C-245.pdf

Blaise A. Darveaux
blaise@darveaux.com

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Has anyone here, who works with French Canadian data, ever used, or heard of, the BALSAC database? It a population file that has more the 4 million records about nearly 5 million individuals covering from the founders to contemporary times. As far as I can tell, it is only available to scientific researchers who are associated with research institutions. I heard about it from an article titled "On the genes, genealogies, and geographies of Quebec." (Luke Anderson-Trocme, et al.) in the 26 May 2023 issue of Science magazine.

Here is a link to a short description in French and English.
https://balsac.uqac.ca/wp-content/up...12/I-C-245.pdf

Blaise A. Darveaux
blaise@darveaux.com

I've heard of it but that's pretty much it. I already have my hands full with the available sources (the Drouin collection, for instance).