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J.J.
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Nova Scotia research
« on: Tuesday 22 November 05 21:10 UTC (UK) »
Genealogy resources in N.S.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/genealogy/

NEW Earlier N.S. censuses
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~downhome/nscensus.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canns/  scroll down

Halifax
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nshalifa/Census.html

Nova scotia vital statistics
https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/
http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/vstat/

BMD for Lunenburg County and Queens County
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canns/lunenburg/bmdindex.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canns/queens/index.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~downeast/
Death & burial /Chester, 1775 to 1818
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canns/lunenburg/ch_d.html
more on Chester http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canns/lunenburg/chesterbk.html

Nova Scotia - Cemeteries
http://www.interment.net/can/ns/index.htm
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/ns.htm#cemetery
Thre Catholic cems in Halifax region
http://www.ccchalifax.com/history.html

NEWNova Scotia Memorial Marker Database
http://www.allenwhite.net/nsmmd/


AFHS- Nova Scotia Censuses
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/registry/regns_census.html

Nova Scotia Resources
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mtoll/ns.htm

Antigonish  & Lunenburg
http://www.census-online.com/links/Canada/NS/Antigonish/
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 26 February 06 03:03 UTC (UK) »
Vital Statistics from the Colonial Patriot (Pictou) Dec 1827-May 1834.
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Recreation/GANS/colonial_patriot.pdf

southshore genealogical society
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nslssgs/index.htm

Antigonish / Pictou genealogical
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pictou/index.htm


Pictou Wills & Probate Records
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nspictou/
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 02 March 06 11:51 UTC (UK) »
A source  of  cemeteries  in Pictou  county  Nova  Scotia

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nspictou/cemeteries/cemetery.htm

All  Cape Breaton  obits

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nscpbret/CBIOBITS/qryindex.htm
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 January 07 05:20 UTC (UK) »
Canadian Genealogy & History Links - Nova Scotia
http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/nova-scotia.html

Nova Scotia Genealogy Links
http://users.eastlink.ca/~grose/novascot.html

Cyndi's List - Nova Scotia
http://www.cyndislist.com/novascot.htm

Nova Scotia Web Guide
http://www.nswebguide.com/links/people/culture_genealogy/index.html

Cumberland County Genealogical Society
http://www.ccgs.ednet.ns.ca/


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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 03 February 07 04:12 UTC (UK) »
Books:

Our Roots - History of the County of Annapolis
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=727

Our Roots - History of the County of Antigonish
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=6063

Our Roots - History of the County of Lunenburg
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=878

Our Roots - Historical Record - William Black & 23 Families
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3054

Little-Known Portions of Nova Scotia History
NEW

http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/histindx.html
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 03 February 07 08:49 UTC (UK) »
I use this one all the time:
Nova Scotia GenWeb
www.rootsweb.com/~canns
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 04 March 07 20:48 UTC (UK) »
List of passengers on some ships...1700s
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canns/lunenburg/shiplists.html

Cornwallis to Halifax - 1749  incl. several ship's lists!
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canns/cornwallis.html

The Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association
http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca///index.html

Some passengers sailing from the Maritime Provinces to New Zealand:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/maritime.htm

PASSENGER MANIFESTS TO ATLANTIC CANADA
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nscbgha/Ships.html
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Catholics of Nova Scotia in World War 1
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 11 March 07 15:57 UTC (UK) »


This is a more than interesting site ! ............. AND photo's too !!

Catholics of Nova Scotia in World War 1

http://members.tripod.com/~enlist_1/enlist.htm

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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 01 May 07 22:12 UTC (UK) »
http://www.celticheritage.ns.ca/index.htm

This magazine has approximately one article of genealogical interest per issue.  Current issues are posted online.  There is also an index online.
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ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot, Westminster Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea & NL
BRAKE - Nailsea
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CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
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LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER - lightermen
MAXWELL - lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot.borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Co.Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol, London
WW1 internments
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Nova Scotia - Loyalists
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 25 November 08 23:50 UTC (UK) »
CAPE BRETON LOYALISTS
http://www.capebretongenweb.com/cbloyalf.html

PORT ROSEWAY ASSOCIATION Group Of Loyalists
Port Roseway (now called Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada), was chosen for settlement by a group of Loyalists being evacuated from New York in 1783 before it fell into American hands.
http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/List001/list38.htm

Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American revolution By Lorenzo Sabine
http://books.google.ca/books?id=jtdBAAAAIAAJ


Black Loyalists to N.S.
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/blackloyalists/names/default.htm


more recent deaths
http://obit.genacadie.ca/view_obit_search.php?lang=EN&obit_criterion=interment&sort=nm
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 04:31 UTC (UK) »
Newspapers online at Paper of Record:

Halifax British Colonist   1848 - 1860 
   
Halifax Citizen  1863 - 1873  
   
Halifax Gazette   1752 - 1780 (partial)  
   
Halifax Sun and Advertiser   1862 - 1867

Paper of Record
(free to join and download)
http://www.paperofrecord.com/

Books:

A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie By Beamish Murdoch
http://books.google.ca/books?id=3HcpAAAAYAAJ

A History of the County of Yarmouth
http://books.google.ca/books?id=7MUOAAAAYAAJ

A History of the County of Pictou
http://books.google.ca/books?id=La8NAAAAQAAJ

Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society (1884)
http://books.google.ca/books?id=RHkOAAAAYAAJ
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 05:16 UTC (UK) »
The Halifax Explosion (CBC)
http://www.cbc.ca/halifaxexplosion/

Maritime Museum - Halifax Explosion
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/HalExpl.html

Halifax Explosion
http://www.halifax.ca/Community/explode.html

Halifax Explosion
http://www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10203

The Halifax Explosion - Dedication
http://www.halifaxexplosion.org/

Explosion in Halifax Harbour By David Flemming
http://books.google.ca/books?id=5mYjUkguzT8C

Halifax Explosion 1917 Online Resources
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nsarm/virtual/explosion.asp

Ships of the Halifax Explosion
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/expships.html



Nova Scotia's part in the Great War
http://www.archive.org/details/novascotia00huntuoft

History of Inverness County, Nova Scotia
http://www.archive.org/details/historyofinverne00macduoft

A history of Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
http://www.archive.org/details/historyoftatamag00pattuoft

The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia
http://www.archive.org/details/historykingscou00eatogoog

The Medical register (1911)
http://www.archive.org/details/medicalregister00novauoft

The history of the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton
http://www.archive.org/details/thehistoryofthep00murruoft

The history of Grand-Pre
http://www.archive.org/details/historyofgrandpr00herbiala
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Re: Nova Scotia research
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 26 November 08 05:45 UTC (UK) »


S.S. England

In the spring of 1866 the S.S. England was bound for New York via Queenstown Ireland from Liverpool  England with 1202 passengers.(Numbers vary) Hundreds died from an outbreak of cholera. The ship was quarantined off McNab's Island near Halifax Nova Scotia before arriving at New York where it remained in quarantine

http://members.iquest.net/~joemilr/england.htm
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Cape Breton Nova Scotia research
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 08 July 09 03:45 UTC (UK) »
Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia Censuses of  1871, 1881, & 1891
http://mrc.uccb.ns.ca/census.html

Sieur de la Roque Census 1752
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2229/laroque.html

Census  Returns  for L'Ardoise, Richmond Co., Cape Breton, NS
http://lardoise.netfirms.com/censusindex.htm#Census%20Returns

Ingonish County of Cape Breton 1838 census
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/alan.donovan/donovan/cen1838.html#Ingonish

Boularderie Island Historical Society
http://www.bihs.ca/

1809 ACADIAN CENSUS of Margaree scroll down for more
http://www.acadian.org/census1809b.html

Inverness 1891
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~casoccgs/i1891/i1891a.html

TOWN OF LOUISBOURG censuses
http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/search/LsbgTownCensus.html
http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/search/LsbgTownCensusReid_1861.html
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Nova Scotia - Colchester
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 11 October 09 01:39 UTC (UK) »
Just found this fabulous resource, searchable by Optical Character Recognition Keywording !!!
COLCHESTER Historical and genealogical record of the first settlers of Colchester
http://books.google.com/books?id=Q3zYusa_mHkC
a digitized version
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nscolche/chignecto/COLCBOOK.html

Colchester / Cumberland census
http://nsgna.ednet.ns.ca/dl/dlfiles.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nscolche/index.html
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