Nova Scotia Genealogical and other Websites

URLs for most Nova Scotia Museums can be found at this site.
Nova Scotia Museum Listing
This site has Probate Record Abstracts as far back as 1763, and into the 1900’s in NS. The entire file can be downloaded, you can use search and find.
Probate Records
New Brunswick records about transportation and communications links between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in 1849 with special attention given to the Nova Scotia Pony Express
NS and NB Transport and Communication
Very large number of links to Nova Scotia History related www sites. Many links to transportation, communication, and industrial history web sites. Early to recent history is all represented.
Little–Known Portions of Nova Scotia History
Montagne (Montaño) Genealogy — Lots of useful genalogy links including maps
Nova Scotia Government Archives Genealogy Research Page
BookWorm, the online version of the NSARM Library Catalogue
Nova Scotia Provincial Library — Link to NcompasS provincial library card catalog
Nova Scotia Property Information On–Line
Pictou Property Information on LDS microfilm
Canadian medical obituaries — McGill University’s Osler Library
Early Canadian History — digital libarary
Early Pictou Marriages
Flat Rocks, Nova Scotia
Automated Genealogy — Free access to 1901 Canadian census. Paid access to on–line search engine.
Nova Scotia Obituaries
North Shore — My 2nd great grandmother, Margaret McKeen McLeod, is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Wallace.
Reminiscences of a Long Life by John MacKay Esq.
Halifax Library History and Genealogy
jump page for my websites — 85th Battalion and Maritime’s Most Wanted
The Canada Directory — The Names of the Professional and Business Men of Every Description, in the Cities, Towns, and Principal Villages Of Canada Together With a Complete Post Office Directory of the Province to November, 1851
Photos needing a home
Birth, Death, Marriage — Scheduled to open in July 2006.
Obituary Index
Email List for Pictou County
Nova Scotia Genealogy — Waiting to turn on the lights.

BMD

Historical Vital Statistics — Nova Scotia provincial goverment digitized BMD

Census

Link to list of all Nova Scotia census listings on the web — Pictou census extracts have moved. See Pictou GenWeb link below.
Nova Scotia Census Records
Canada 1901 Census
Census Online – Nova Scotia Census Records
Nova Scotia Census: Genealogy in Nova Scotia
Canadian Census 1851

Maps

Maps of Nova Scotia
Maps of Nova Scotia
Interactive Maps of Nova Scotia
Interactive Maps of Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Coastal Charts
Nova Scotia Map

Canadian Genealogy Centre — A single window providing electronic access to the genealogical resources of Canada.
Genealogy Research at Nova Scotia Records Managment (NSRM)
Halifax Gazette
Property registry
selection of old postcards and photos
For Posterity’s Sake Genealogy — A Canadian Genealogy Web Site; WEIR Clan motto: Vero nihil verius (Nothing is more true than the truth)
Atlantic Canada Newspaper Survey — Goods and services advertised in East Coast newspapers before 1900.

Acadian Genealogy for Nova Scotia
Annapolis County Genweb Project
British Headquarters Papers, The Carleton Papers, King’s Name Project
Canadian History and Genealogy Links
Canadian Geographic Names – Natural Resources Canada
CGHL – Personal Nova Scotia
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Cyndi’s List – Canada – Nova Scotia
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dalhousie University Electronic Archives
Dalhousie University Thomas Raddall Electronic Archive Project
Dalhousie University Waldren Photo Archive
Destination Nova Scotia
Early Canadiana Online – Notre memoire en ligne
eScribe NSRoots Mail List Archive
GANS Publications and Reference Books
The Global Gazette
The Halifax Herald Limited
Halifax Presbytery The United Church of Canada
Nova Scotia – Government Services
Nova Scotia – Vital Statistics
Memorial University of Newfoundland – Maritime History Archive
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Missing Links by Sandra Devlin
National Archives of Canada Services to the Public
National Library of Canada
Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
Nova Scotia Commercial Directory
Nova Scotia Genealogy Links
Nova Scotia GenWeb Project
Nova Scotia Marriages
Nova Scotia Sympatico
NS Roots List Archives
Presbyterian Archives and Records Office
Presbyterian Church in Canada
Prince Edward Island Goverment Official Web Site
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
St. Francis Xavier University, Archives
St. Francis Xavier University, Angus L. MacDonald Library
The Ultimate Directory – Canada.com
The United Church – Victoria university Archives
Veterans Affairs Canada
Vital Statistics Nova Scotia Births, Deaths, Marriages
Boston–States Archive — Discussions of migration between the Eastern Provinces of Canada and New England/New York.
Boston City Directories Search Service
Gaelic Placenames of Nova Scotia
Hello from the Province of the French Acadians and Scots
Maritimes Most Wanted — Ancestors that is

Genealogy and History Societies

Genalogical Association of Nova Scotia
Genealogical Institute of the Maritimes / Institut généalogique des provinces Maritimes
Nova Scotia Genealogy Network Association
The Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
Colchester Museum
New England Historic Genealogical Society — Because so many Nova Scotians went to “Boston States”

Pictou URLs

CAN–NS–PICTOU–L Archives
Family Roots of Pictou County, Nova Scotia — Morgan Robertson’s web site home page
Pictou County Marriage Licenses
Pictou County Probate Records
Search Morgan Robertson’s web site
Early Pictou Obituaries
Atlas of Pictou County for 1879
CKEC 1320 AM – Radio New Glasgow
Pictou–Antigonish Library
Pictou Roots Research Archive
Pictou Area Genealogy and Regional Resources
New Glasgow Planning Commission
For Posterity’s Sake Genealogy — A burial index with over 18,000 entries and an obit index with just shy 8,000 entries.

Pictou County GenWeb

Pictou County, Nova Scotia GenWeb — Links to census extracts
Pictou County Census 1871
Electronic Texts — I can’t find an index or link from the home page so just explore these files.

Genealogy and History Societies

Pictou County Genealogy and Heritage Society
Pictou County Roots Society

Cape Breton URLs

Eastern Regional Library
The census are downloaded as zip files.
Cape Breton Genealogy and Historical Association
NS–CAPE–BRETON–L Archives
Highland Scots in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Breton Books and Music Home Page
Cape Breton Music Online
Cape Breton Counties Genealogy
Cape Breton Marriage Licenses
Cape Breton Post
Cape Breton Roots
Ed Galvin’s Genealogy Page
Index to Maritime Music
Jones Family Genealogy (MacLeods of River Inhabitance Bridge)
Lark & Victor’s Cape Breton Pages
MacDonald Nova Scotia Genealogy
Maritime Mosaic
People Finder Canada – Cape Breton
Richmond County – About Our Area
Richmond County Home Page
Richmond County, Cape Breton
Cape Breton Post Daily Online Edition
University College of Cape Breton
Highland Scots in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

Cape Breton Island — English and French
Transcriptions From Original Colonial–Era Correspondence — A Project Conceived by Janice Fralic–Brown
Cape Breton Genealogy & Historical Association
Beaton Institute — Archive of manuscripts and other treasures useful to genealogists.
Cape Breton Genealogy and History Association — A lot of serios BMD records

Prince Edward Island URLs

Prince Edward Island Register Genealogy Links

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Colchester County URLs

Colchester County, Nova Scotia, CNGenWeb

Cumberland County URLs

Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Museum

Ontario, Canada

Ontario Canada Census Information

Canadian and British Military Records

Veteran Affairs Canada,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Suite 1707, 66 Slater St.,
Ottawa, ON. K1A 0P4
(613)–992–3224

The British counterpart is:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
2 Marlow Rd.,
Maidenhead, Berks., S16 7DX

Military Service Records, Kew PRO, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond,
Surrey TW9 4DU:

Canadian Expeditionary Force


As to actual WWI records in Canada, they are available from NAC.
Try snail mail request to:
National Archives of Canada,
395 Wellington St.,
Ottawa, ON. K1A 0N3
Attn: Military Personnel

RAF Service Records
PMA(CS) 2a2
Building 248a
HQ RAF Personnel & Training Command
RAF Innsworth
Glouchestershire
England
GL3 1E2

Canadian Military Heritage Project
Canadian Military Records
National Archives of Canada – Military Records
Canadian Military Index (600,000 WWI)
WWI personnel
Books of Remembrance (Ottawa)
Truro Cenotaph
Books of Rememberance
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