Genealogy of Quebec Population from 1621 to 1965

This file contains the genealogy of French Canadian individuals married in Quebec between the beginning of European settlement in the early 17th century and 1960 was compiled in the BALSAC database. (N = 4,364,381 individuals, as of March 2015, balsac.uqac.ca) - ‘individual’: recoded individual number ; - ‘father’: recoded father's number; - ‘mother’: recoded mother's number; - ‘sex’: individual sexe; - ‘immigrant’: logical value (true ou false) specifying if the individual is an immigrant (the first of his uniparental lineage to have married in Quebec); - ‘founder’: a logical value (true or false) specifying if the individual is a founder (the first of his uniparental lineage); - ‘married’: a logical value (true or false) specifying whether the individual is married; - ‘maternal_lineage’: the maternal lineage number of the individual if it is a woman; - 'paternal_lineage’: the paternal lineage number of the individual if it is a man; - ‘wedding_year’: the year of the individual's first marriage (deduced from a data frame containing all marriages, sorted by couple); - ‘wedding_parish’: URB of the individual's first marriage (deduced from a data frame that contained all marriages, sorted by couple); - ‘estimated_wedding_year’: year of marriage estimated for individuals who do not have one (20 years minus the year of marriage of the couple's first child); - ‘number_married_children’: number of the individual's children who have married; - ‘number_married_children_Quebec’: number of the individual's children who were married in Quebec; - ‘number_married_sons’ : number of sons of the individual who got married; - ’number_married_daughters’: number of daughters of the individual who got married; - ‘number_married_sons_Quebec’: number of the individual's sons who married in Quebec; - ‘number_married_daughters_Quebec’: number of the individual's daughters who married in Quebec; - ‘maternal_lineage_including_males’: the maternal lineage number of the individual even if the individual is a man; - ‘region’: region where the individual was married.