Microfilm resources
- Nova
Scotia Births and Deaths – 1864 to 1877
- Nova Scotia Marriages
1864 to 1918 (various ending years per county)
- Marriage Bonds
and Marriage License Records
- 1851-1901 Nova Scotia Census
- Nova
Scotia Probate and Deeds all counties
- The Casket
newspaper
- Fred Crowell’s, New Englanders to Nova Scotia
General Sources for Nova Scotia Research
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, The boundaries of Nova Scotia and its
counties. (Halifax, N.S.: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1966).
Hillman,
Thomas A., Catalogue of census returns on microfilm, 1666-1891.
(Ottawa, Canada : Public Archives Canada, 1987).
Marble, Allan
Everett, A catalogue of published genealogies of Nova Scotia
families.
Publication info. (Halifax : Genealogical
Association of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. 1984).
Morris,
Julie, Nova Scotia genealogical sources : county guide
series. (Halifax, N.S. : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1988).
Public Archives of Nova Scotia Archives, Genealogy source :
where to find genealogical information in Nova Scotia. (Halifax,
N.S. : Council of Nova Scotia Archives, 2002).
Public Archives of
Nova Scotia, Place-names and places of Nova Scotia. (Belleville,
Ont.: Mika Pub. Co., 1982).
Punch, Terrence M., Genealogical
research in Nova Scotia. (Halifax, NS : Nimbus, 1998).
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and Cj Stevens, “Researching Nova Scotian Ancestry.” The New
England Historical and Genealogical Register. (October 1984)
138:251-277.
Sanborn, George F., “Genealogical Research in Nova
Scotia”, published in : A Guide to the Library of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society. (Boston, NEHGS, 2004), p. 238-245.
The Nova Scotia Genealogist (Genealogical Association of
N.S.
Publication info. Halifax, N.S. : The Association, 1983-to
present).
Various Immigration Studies
Bell, Winthrop Pickard, Register of the foreign Protestants of
Nova Scotia, ca. 1749-1770 (Guelph, ON : J. Christopher Young,
2003).
Conrad, Margaret, They Planted Well : New England
Planters In Maritime Canada. (Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press,
1988).
Conrad, Margaret, Intimate relations : family and
community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800. (Fredericton, N.B. :
Acadiensis Press, 1995).
Crowell, Fred E., New Englanders in
Nova Scotia (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society,
1979) [Microfilm]
Gilroy, Marion, Loyalists and
land settlement in Nova Scotia. (Halifax, N.S.,1937).
Hodges,
Graham Russell, The Black loyalist directory : African Americans in
exile after the American Revolution. (New York : Garland Pub. in
association with the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996).
Merz, Johannes Helmut, The Hessians Of Nova Scotia.
(Hamilton, Ont.: German Canadian Historical Book Publishing, 1994).
Morrison, James H., Common Heritage: an annotated bibliography
of ethnic groups in Nova Scotia. (Halifax, N.S.: International
Education Centre, Saint Mary's University, 1984).
Niles, Samuel,
New England's victory at Louisburg in 1745. (Providence, R.I. :
Society of Colonial Wars. Rhode Island, 1986).
Peterson, Jean, The
Loyalist guide : Nova Scotian Loyalists and their documents.
(Halifax,
N.S.: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1983).
Public Archives of
Nova Scotia, The Loyalist guide : Nova Scotian Loyalists and their
documents. (Halifax, N.S.: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1983).
Punch, Terrence M., A list of the settlers from Montbeliard to Nova
Scotia, 1749-1752. [Canada, T.M. Punch, 1988] NEHGS Manuscript
Rompkey, Ronald, German emigration to Nova Scotia in the
mid-eighteenth century.
(Edmonton, Alta. : Alberta
Genealogical Society, 1983).
Ross, Sally, The Acadians of
Nova Scotia, past and present.(Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus, 1992).
Smith,
Clifford Neal, Whereabouts of some American refugees, 1784-1800 :
Nova Scotian land grants. (McNeal, Ariz.: Westland Publications,
1992).
Smith, Leonard H., Nova Scotia immigrants to
1867. (Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992).
Wetmore,
Donald, Loyalists in Nova Scotia. (Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot
Press, 1983).
Township Records
NEHGS
has microfilm of the following township records: Annapolis,
Argyle, Annapolis, Aylesford, Barrington, Chester, Cornwallis, Douglas,
Fort Lawrence, Granville, Horton Liverpool , Londonderry, Maccan,
Manchester, Newport, Parrsboro, St. Mary's (area of Guysborough Co.),
Stormont, Truro, Tusket, Weymouth, Wilmot, and Windsor.
Jacquard,
Carol, The Argyle Township books. (Tusket,
N.S. : Argyle Municipality Historical & Genealogy Society, 1994).
Evans, Lorna Woodman, Township books, Kings County, Nova Scotia :
Aylesford, Cornwallis, Horton. (Kentville, N.S. :
Family History Committee of the Kings Historical Society, 1996).
Terry,
Patricia A., Barrington Township records :
early records of marriages, births and deaths in Barrington, Nova
Scotia, from the year 1761. (Yarmouth, N.S. : Stoneycroft, 1994).
Duncanson, John V., Falmouth-
a New England township in Nova Scotia, 1760-1965. (Windsor,
Ont.:1965)
Eagles, Douglas Eaton, Horton
Township records, Kings Co., Nova Scotia : register of births,
marriages and deaths, 1751-1895.(Sarnia, Ont. : D.E. Eagles, 1974).
Long, Richard G., Vital records from the Truro,
Nova Scotia, township record book for the years 1755-1799.
(Myersville, Md: R.G. Long, 2002).
Trask, Gwen Guiou, Early
vital records of the township of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
1762-1811 : first and second books, including births, deaths,
marriages, and some minutes of township meetings. (Yarmouth, N.S.:
Yarmouth County Historical Society, 1982).
NEHGS also have the
Ambrose F. Church Maps of Nova Scotia, and the Crown Land Maps for Nova
Scotia.