Nova Scotia

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Archives - Libraries - Museums

  • Beaton Institute for Cape Breton Studies  Mandated to collect and conserve the social, economic, political, and cultural history of Cape Breton Island. Housed in the collection are manuscripts, photographs, audio and video tapes, maps, newspapers, and books.
  • MacDonald House Museum  A museum dedicated to the settlers of Lake Ainslie, Nova Scotia. We have an 1850's home, 1930's barn and school.
  • Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management  Information on using the Archives, getting started in your genealogical research, online searchable finding aids, virtual exhibit.
  • Nova Scotia Museum  Historical and natural science content, Museum policies, complete directory of museums and heritage societies in Nova Scotia. Over 2000 pages.
  • Nova Scotia Regional Libraries  Information on, and links to many of the Regional Libraries in NS.
  • Parkdale Maplewood Community Museum  Museum Collection, museum gardens, special features, coming events, newsletter.
  • Queens County Museum  The Queens Co. and Simeon Perkins Museums and the Thomas H. Raddall Research Centre.
  • Yarmouth County Historical Society  List of resources available in the archives, and sample images from the Archives' extensive photograph collection.

Birth, Marriage, Death

  • Fortress of Louisbourg Parish Records 1713 - 1758  Between 1713 and 1758, parish priests maintained records of the births, marriages, and deaths of the people of the Fortress of Louisbourg. These records are available for online browsing.
  • Nova Scotia Vital Statistics  Responsible for registration of vital events of birth, death, and marriage which occur in NS. Includes details on how to obtain information for genealogical purposes.
  • Registers St. Peter's RC Church, Sheet Harbour  The complete baptism and marriage records for St. Peter's Sheet Harbour RC Church from 1857 to 1906. Also, link to complete cemetery transcription of St. Peter's.
  • Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery  Includes the name, date of birth, date of death, colour of the headstone and other various comments for the Saint James Anglican Church Cemetery, Boutilier's Point, Halifax County, NS.

Cemetery - Obituary

Census

Emigration

  • Pier 21 Society  At Pier 21 on the Halifax waterfront, 1.5 million immigrants first set foot on Canadian soil. During World War II, 3,000 British evacuee children, 50,000 war brides and their 22,000 children, over 100,000 refugees passed through Pier 21.

First Nations

General

GenWeb

Geography

Government

History

Information

Maritime

  • Titanic - The Unsinkable Ship and Halifax NS  The world was stunned in 1912 by the loss of the liner Titanic on her maiden voyage. Includes wireless transcript excerpts and listing of Titanic victims buried in Halifax

Metis

  • Metis Genealogy  The genealogy of the Metis and Acadian of Nova Scotia.

Military

  • Catholics of NS in WW1  Catholics of the Diocese of Antigonish and The Great War 1914-1919. Nominal Enlistment Rolls by Parishes, St. Francis Xavier University Press.

Organizations and Societies

  • Blandford & Area Historical Society  Objectives of the Society, membership, a 1934 history of Upper Blandford, a history of Blandford, 1931 to 1961.
  • Cape Sable Historical Society  Collecting and preserving all documents, papers, and other objects of interest, which may serve to illustrate the history of Shelburne and Yarmouth Counties.
  • Colchester Historical Museum and Archives  Hours and admission, exhibits, archive holdings, publications for sale, and a brief history of Colchester County.
  • Cumberland County Genealogical Society  Sharing information and assisting in the identification and cataloguing of resource material so that it can be readily available to everyone for both research and education.
  • Fort Lawrence/Beaubassin Heritage Association  Non profit association dedicated to history of Fort Lawrence/Beaubassin and to the rebuilding of British Fort Lawrence and Acadian Village of Beaubassin, Acadian monument, History, etc.
  • Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia  Information about GANS.
  • Hantsport and Area Historical Society  The Churchill House and the Marine Memorial room, meetings & membership, publications for sale, and the Hantsport Genealogical index.
  • Icelandic Memorial Society of NS  Settlers, census, notable names and information from Markland and Lockeport Settlements.
  • Kings Historical Society  The largest and most comprehensive genealogical archives in Kings County and an extensive archives of material relating to the communities which form Kings County.
  • Mainland South Heritage Society  Areas of interest include the communities located within the Halifax Regional Municipality from Armdale to Pennant. Members are working on the early families who settled these areas.
  • Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association  Formed to provide access to genealogical resources pertaining to Nova Scotia and support the efforts of the local and county historical societies in the province. Links to Nova Scotian research sources and their member societies.
  • Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society  Founded in 1878, to discuss individual papers about personalities, places, and events integral to the history of Nova Scotia.
  • Shelburne County Genealogical Society  Aims and objectives, membership, meetings and workshops, newsletter, publications, and contact information. They also have a listing of research tools available.
  • South Shore Genealogical Society  A non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to developing and providing genealogical information for Lunenburg and Queens Counties. This page includes information about the society, summary of holdings, membership information, etc.
  • Wentzel(l) Genealogy Society  A summary of the first Wentzell families of Lunenburg and Queens Counties of NS. Information on the societies newsletter and membership.
  • West Hants Historical Society  Information about their museum, genealogy room, publications and genealogy links.

Passenger Lists

  • Hector Passenger Lists and Discussions  The Ship Hector arrived in Pictou Harbor in September of 1773 bringing the vangard of a great number of Scots, Highlander and Lowlander, to the Maritime Provinces and to upper Canada.
  • List of Emigrant Ships to Pictou - 1767 to 1849  List of Emigrant Ships that arrived at Pictou, 1767-1849.
  • Nova Scotia Bound  This is a partial list of the ships that left Europe (mainly Great Britain) for Nova Scotia between 1750 and 1862.
  • Palatine Project  Sources from German speaking countries as well as early colonial American sources to reconstruct the passenger lists of Germans who came to America in the first large wave of emigration in the 18th century.
  • Ship's Passenger Lists for Pictou  Includes passenger lists for the the Commerce, the Hector, The Dove, the Sarah, the Lovely Nelly, the Oughton, the Spencer, the Humphreys, the Isle of Skye, the Elizabeth and Ann, and more.
  • Ships to Canada 1400 to 1800  Links to sites containing passenger lists.

Personal

  • Ann Capstick's Home Page  Capstick, Deason, Livingston, Locke, Longhurst, Lynch, Macdonald, Silver.
  • Barney Kauffman's Home Page  Researching Kaufman, Zimmerman, Silver, Prickett, Peacock.
  • Blair Whynacht's Genealogy Page  BAKER, COHOON, COONEY, CORKUM, CROFT, HILTZ, HIRTLE, MCKINNON, NAUGLER, PAYZANT, RHODENIZER, SLAUENWHITE, SMITH, TANNER, VAUGHAN, WADMAN, WENTZELL, WHYNACHT.
  • Canadian Terhune Family  Genealogy of Hants County TERHUNE family . NJ, Ontario and BC links. Includes; BROWN, DENSMORE, GRANT, KAMBICK, MCLELLAN, MOFFATT, MOSHER, NUTTING, REID, WOOLAVER etc.
  • Casey & Dunn Families of Nova Scotia  Genealogy work in progress of the Casey family from Guysborough County Nova Scotia and the Dunn family of Halifax County, Nova Scotia. Contains many surnames including some Loyalist and Acadian.
  • Cathy's Genealogy Extravaganza  Zinck, Heckman, Bachman, Herman, Seaboyer, Geldert, Young, Conrad, Knickle, Weagle, Oxner, Zwicker, Weinacht, Hauptman, Kappes, Schaffner, Schnare, Morasch, Rafuse, Bolivar, Englehorn, Goetz, Tanner, Keddy, Deuthof, West, Mason. Lunenburg Co.
  • Chris' Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Home Page  Descendents of the original settlers in the Lunenburg County area of Nova Scotia. These are primarily people of french, german and swiss background who came to Nova Scotia in the mid 1750's.
  • CJ's Genealogy Page  Includes descendants of JOHAN GEORG BOEHNER (Biner, Binner, Bohner) who is believed to have come from Ansbach, South of Heidelberg, Germany to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1752.
  • Clan Munroe home page for New Scotland  Donald Munroe and his wife Margater MacDonald left Scotland in the ealry 1800s and traveled to the County of Richmond in what was then refered to as New Scotland.
  • Descendants of Michael Hirtle of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia  In 1751, (Hans) Michael HIRTLE, the ancestor of almost all Hirtles in Canada and the US, boarded the PEARL in Rotterdam to begin a new life in NS with his wife and family. Information on the Hirtle surname and a Gedcom available for download.
  • Douglas Sinnis Genealogy Page  ARCHIBALD, BRYDEN, COLLETT, CULTON, DELONG, DICKSON, GREEN, HENRY, KINGWELL, SINNIS, WOOD.
  • Down Home  Nova Scotia genealogy, Wolf, Conrad, Boutilier, Cluney and Oickle genealogy, hessians, immigrants, Lunenburg.
  • Dunn Family of Castle Bay and Dominion, Cape Breton Island  The Castle Bay Dunns are the progeny of James Dunn, an Irish immigrant to Canada.
  • Eaton Family of Nova Scotia  This is a work in progress by a small group of serious but amateur genealogists whose primary goal is to have all published works relating to the descendants of David and Deborah (White) Eaton on the internet before the year 2000.
  • Fifes  The genealogy and family history of Fifes from Cumberland Couny, Nova Scotia.
  • Fletcher Genealogy  The History, Folklore, and Genealogy of the Fletcher Family and a few others. Fletcher, Peck, Tattrie, McIntosh, Seekell, Langille, Bezanson and information on Montbeliard names.
  • Four Nova Scotia Families  Descendants of four families who settled in NS in the mid 1700s. The three Rice families who settled in the Annapolis Valley and the Graham family who arrived at Halifax about 1749. Abstracts from the Court of Probate Records for Annapolis County, NS.
  • Gail's Genealogy Page  Genealogical data for over 18,000 individuals, mainly from Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.
  • Gail's Genealogy Wonderland  Databases (the largest being mostly of Nova Scotian heritage), resources, links library (with an entire section devoted to Canada), family recipes.
  • Gaspe Bay Area Families  Information on most of the families and descendants, who settled around the Gaspe Bay.
  • Genealogy 'Fair is the Place'  An account of two MacDonald Families at Judique, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The first family were the Bogainn Maconalds, a group consisting of four married brothers and their sister who emigrated to Pictou in the closing years of the 18th century.
  • GeneJane's Homepage  Families that are most common in my home county of Colchester, Nova Scotia. Archibald, Crowe, Higgins, Lynds, McLean, McNutt to name a few.
  • George Matthews Family  Searching for Matthews and Williams in Sheburne County, NS abt 1760 to present.
  • George Rose Homepage  My Rose ancestors came from Invergordon Cromarty area of the Highlands of Scotland in 1818 to the Pictou area of Nova Scotia. My French Acadian Ancestors include Langlois of Cape Breton, and Boudreau of Port Royal.
  • Gillis, MacDonald, MacIsaac, MacAdam. MacGillivary  Database of 5200 names in the greater East Bay Area of Cape Breton. Data on Gillis, Mac Donald, Mac Isaac, Mac Adam Mac Gillivary.
  • Goodwins of New England and Nova Scotia  This site covers a small branch of those Goodwins who are descended from Josellyn Goodwin, born circa 1405 in England.
  • Goyetche Family  The Goyetche Family web site is dedicated to the genealogy and history of all those who share the Goyetche surname.
  • Johannes Hatt of Switzerland and Nova Scotia  Descendants of Johannes HATT born 1737 in Switzerland, and died 1808 in New Dublin, NS. He married Anna Elizabeth FELCHER 1766 in Lunenburg, NS
  • Jonathan Davidson's Genealogy Page  Davidson genealogy, Nova Scotia genealogy resources FAQ and links.
  • Jordan/Jordain Family Tree  Descendants of Peter Jordain, St. Mary's, Guysborough Co., Nova Scotia.
  • Keddy's Korner  Dating back to Alexander Keddy who immigrated to NS with Edward Cornwallis in 1749. Other surnames are BACHMAN, ERNST, FAEDER, GOREHAM, HILTZ, KAULBACK, PUBLICOVER, SCHNARE, SILVER, TINGLEY, WENTZEL, WENTZELL, WYNAUGHT, ZINC and ZWICKER.
  • KEDDY's of Nova Scotia  I have been researching my family tree "KEDDY" and have found information back to ALEXANDER KEDY who immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1749 with Edward Cornwallis aboard the "Winchelsea"
  • Kintail to Cape Breton  MacRae Family of Cape Breton NS. Also included a historical and pictoral overview of the Nova Scotia Highlanders. The rest of my genealogy Yorkshire, England. Nunan Family of Cork Ireland. Johnson Family, Oxford England.
  • Langille Family Homepage  Daniel Langille & Annie France Brandt born in 1687 & 1689 in Montbeliard (now part of France). Databases, photo album, gravestone photographs.
  • Lloyd MacDonald Genealogy Page  The genealogy of the ROY, HENDERSON and MAC DONALD families in Pictou County, in particular the Albion Mines, Westville area. Also, the Genealogy of MAC DONALD, URQUHART, MACLEOD families who lived on the North Shore area of Cape Breton.
  • Lloyds of Nova Scotia  A work in progress of all of the Lloyd families from Nova Scotia.
  • MacInnis Family Tree  This family tree site traces the MacInnis, Dawe side of our family back to the 1700's in Canada, Scotland and France.
  • Makowiec Home Page  Searching M(a)cIntyre and Cameron, both of Nova Scotia and originally of Scotland.
  • Marjorie's Place for info on Veinot Genealogy  Lunenburg County surnames include BECK, CAULTER, DAUPHINEE, EMENEAU, FRETWELL, HINES, JOUDRY, LEWIS, LOWE, NAUSS, RITHCIE, TURNER, VIENOT, WHEELOCK, WHYNOT, ZWICKER and more.
  • Martine's Genealogy Home Page  Researching Nova Scotia names BANKS, BENSON, DAKIN, DENTON, MOODY, MORTON, STEEL(E), SPECHT, TITUS and WINCHESTER. Many of my ancestors were loyalists.
  • McLean / Campbell Connection  A personal genealogy of my mother's ancestry from Inverness-Shire, Scotland to Nova Scotia. Including surnames: CAMPBELL, DAVEY, JOHNSON, LAWRENCE, MACDONALD, PEARSON, ROACHE, SKERRY, WORDEN.
  • McLeod's of Broad Run  McLeod Family history for Pictou and Richmond Counties. Two separate Mc/MacLeod families were united by the marriage of Charles H. MacLeod of River Inhabitance Bridge, Cape Breton with Hannah McLeod of West River, Pictou County.
  • Meisner Family of Marie Joseph, Guysborough Co.  Meisner Family of Marie Joseph, Guysborough Co., Nova Scotia
  • Mikmaq Ancestry of Jerry Gerrior  Descendants of Philippe Mius, born 1660 in Pobomcoup, Cape Sable, N.S.
  • Misener Genealogy  Misener Family Genealogy, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Murrant  This site is devoted to the Murrant family of Cape Breton and compiles a very brief summary of the yet unpublished book Murrants Clan and Kith.
  • My Foreign Protestants  Two of the original settlers came on the ship, the Gale, in 1752. They were Hans Peter Zwicker Sr. and Johann Conrad Knockell.
  • NICHOLSONs of Spryfield, NS  Researching the following surnames: NICHOLSON, GERACE/I, PUSATERA, MASON, HILLSON, LEVINE, CLARK(E), LIVINGSTON(E), GRACIE, JACKSON, CROSSETT and WEBER.
  • Nova Scotia Roots  The descendants of Peter Manning of Ireland, George Ross of Northern Ireland, The Phinneys in NS, William Shields of Northern Ireland and Scotland, The Langilles of Tatamagouche and William Joyce of Colchester County, NS.
  • Pat Watson's Home Page  Surname database which contains 275 individuals and 50 families representing 56 surnames. Church records from St. James Anglican Church, Port Dufferin, NS, and genealogy books in my collection. Gedcom available for download.
  • Polli's Place  Jost, Morash, Hirtle, Hart.
  • Ranald Blanchard Home Page  The descendants of Col. Jotham and Elizabeth (TREADWELL) BLANCHARD, who came to Truro, NS after the War of Independence from the present day New Hampshire/Mass. border area. Also researching other Blanchard lineages to find deeper ancestral roots.
  • Sharing our Links to the Past  BUNGARD, BUSHMAN, CURRIE, DARE, GRAY, HIMMELMAN, LANGILLE, LUNDQUIST, MCNABB, MADSEN, MORRISON, PUBLICOVER, STANFORD, TURLEY.
  • Silver Family Saga  I am researching LUNENBURG, NOVA SCOTIA descendants. SILBER (SILVER), KNICKLE, TANNER, MASSON (MASON), MEISNER, MORASCH, SCHAUFELBURG, LANTZ, HYNICK, MILLER, ZWICKER, RISSER, WAGNER, EISENHAUER, JUNG(YOUNG), GREEK.
  • Silver's Tangled Web  Family lines include Nicolaas SILBER (SILVER), Johann Conrad KNICKLE, Hans Jacob TANNER, Frederique MASSON (MASON). They were among the original settlers of Lunenburg in 1752.
  • Smithfield, Nova Scotia  History of Smithfield, Older Pictures & genealogy of the following families: Glencross, MacKeen, Cumminger, MacIntosh, Fraser and Demmons
  • Surettes of Nova Scotia  Searching for any information on the name Surette. The first Suret/Surette to come to Nova Scotia was a man named Noel Suret who arrived in the 1700's.
  • Sutherland and Jodrey Family Trees  BAKER, COLE, CRAIG, GRANT, GREENOUGH, HARTLING, HILTZ, HIRTLE, JODREY/JOUDREY, MacCONNELL, MacDONALD, McKINLEY, MORASH, MOSHER, SAMSON, SPEARS, STUART, SUTHERLAND, PERKINS, WILKS, WREN.
  • The Harvey's Web Page  Traces the family tree and connections of one branch of the Harvie/Harvey family of Hants Co. Nova Scotia. Ties to MacDougall, Wallace & Brophy.
  • The Webb Page  Dedicated to the WEBB family of Cumberland county and particularly the descendants of Noah Webb (1754 - 1832). Downloadable Gedcom, index to Webb marriages, obituaries.
  • Wallace F. Gray Family Home Page  The GRAY family of Sambro, and the PUBLICOVER family of Lunenburg, (also known as BUBICKHOFFER and various spellings).
  • Ward Family of Cape Breton and Newport  Descendants of Simon Ward was born abt 1755 in England and Rhoda Mosher born abt 1762 in Newport NS.
  • Wayne & Marina's web site  Genealogy, surnames Trefry, Cook, Manser, Atkinson, Deveau, Cemetery info, plus Nova Scotia links.
  • Whitmania  Devoted to the surname WHITMAN. Interactive Family Tree, Genealogies, Essays, Stories, Family History, Whitman Family Album and a Message Board.
  • Wizard's Cove  My Family in the Maritimes, with many surnames being from Lunenburg County NS, and Lunenburg Will Book Index.

Publications

Religion

Surnames

  • From Montbeliard to a New World  Until 1793, Montbeliard was the independent homeland of about 420 French-speaking Protestants brought to Nova Scotia by a Dutch shipping agent named John Dick.
  • Lunenburg County Surname Registry  This registry is made available to anyone researching their Lunenburg County ancestors as a means to contact others researching the same surnames.
  • Planter Studies Home Page  The 8000 New England residents who migrated to Nova Scotia between 1759 and 1774.