Joseph‑Firmin Drouin was a lawyer and genealogist, founder of the Institut Généalogique Drouin, which holds his extensive collection of family trees and microfilms of church and parish records from throughout the province of Quebec, Canada
Son of Firmin Drouin, a farmer, and Mathilde D'Arragon dite Lafrance, his wife
Joseph Firmin Drouin married Marie Orpha Leduc on November 22, 1904 in the parish of Saint‑Jacques-le-Mineur, Montreal; they had three sons and three daughters
Joseph Drouin’s side-business of researching and drawing up family trees for his well-to-do legal clients gained credibility in the small world of genealogy. He established a methodology and bequeathed a research archive that has inspired many individuals to take an interest in their ancestors and family histories. The research tool that he created has become indispensable to genealogists interested in their French-Canadian origins
**An extensive biography for Joseph Drouin can be viewed at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online**
Son of Firmin Drouin, a farmer, and Mathilde D'Arragon dite Lafrance, his wife
Joseph Firmin Drouin married Marie Orpha Leduc on November 22, 1904 in the parish of Saint‑Jacques-le-Mineur, Montreal; they had three sons and three daughters
Joseph Drouin’s side-business of researching and drawing up family trees for his well-to-do legal clients gained credibility in the small world of genealogy. He established a methodology and bequeathed a research archive that has inspired many individuals to take an interest in their ancestors and family histories. The research tool that he created has become indispensable to genealogists interested in their French-Canadian origins
**An extensive biography for Joseph Drouin can be viewed at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online**
Joseph‑Firmin Drouin was a lawyer and genealogist, founder of the Institut Généalogique Drouin, which holds his extensive collection of family trees and microfilms of church and parish records from throughout the province of Quebec, Canada
Son of Firmin Drouin, a farmer, and Mathilde D'Arragon dite Lafrance, his wife
Joseph Firmin Drouin married Marie Orpha Leduc on November 22, 1904 in the parish of Saint‑Jacques-le-Mineur, Montreal; they had three sons and three daughters
Joseph Drouin’s side-business of researching and drawing up family trees for his well-to-do legal clients gained credibility in the small world of genealogy. He established a methodology and bequeathed a research archive that has inspired many individuals to take an interest in their ancestors and family histories. The research tool that he created has become indispensable to genealogists interested in their French-Canadian origins
**An extensive biography for Joseph Drouin can be viewed at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online**
Son of Firmin Drouin, a farmer, and Mathilde D'Arragon dite Lafrance, his wife
Joseph Firmin Drouin married Marie Orpha Leduc on November 22, 1904 in the parish of Saint‑Jacques-le-Mineur, Montreal; they had three sons and three daughters
Joseph Drouin’s side-business of researching and drawing up family trees for his well-to-do legal clients gained credibility in the small world of genealogy. He established a methodology and bequeathed a research archive that has inspired many individuals to take an interest in their ancestors and family histories. The research tool that he created has become indispensable to genealogists interested in their French-Canadian origins
**An extensive biography for Joseph Drouin can be viewed at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online**
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