Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Genealogy Lookup Library



    Welcome to the Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Genealogy Lookup Library page. Listed here are several Lunenburg County reference sources and the volunteers who have offered to do lookups in them. So that we may keep these offers available, please try not to request an abundance of information at one time. Contact names / e-mail addresses are indicated so that you may directly contact those holding each of these resources.

    Volunteers are currently needed to do lookups in Lunenburg County and other Nova Scotia publications that you have access to or own. If you are interested in helping with lookups, please send an e-mail here including the publication name, your e-mail address and a brief description of the resource. Thank you!

    If you don't see what you're looking for here, please visit the Canada Genealogy Helplist. There you will find many volunteers who have offered to check their resources from all over Canada!



    General History

    History of Lunenburg County (DesBrisay)
    Chris Young

    The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia (Bell)
    Chris Young

    Loyalists and Land Settlements in Nova Scotia (PANS)
    Catherine DiPietro

    Forests of Nova Scotia (Johnson)
    Bryan Keddy
    Contains names and places involved with the lumbering industry in NS. You can view a list of names in the book here.



    Immigrants / Settlers

    Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867 (Smith and Smith)
    Gail Edwards

    Planters and Pioneers (Wright)
    Gail Edwards



    Ship Passenger Lists

    Passenger Lists for the Foreign Protestants 1750-1752
    Chris Young



    Census Indexes

    Lunenburg County Census Surname Indexes (1871/1881/1891/1901)
    Pat Smith
    These have been published by Bridgewater Business & Information Services and proofed by volunteers. Pat holds the copyright on these publications. Please limit your lookup request to 3 individual surnames. If you are interested in purchasing these publications, they are available for sale ($ 45 for 4-volume set). Please contact Pat Smith directly for more information.


    Marriages

    The Diary of Joseph Dimock - Covering marriages performed mainly by the Reverand Jospeh Dimock (Baptist) in the Chester area between September 4, 1794 - July 8, 1845. There are 275 records listed.
    Beverly Vaughan





    Obituaries / Cemetery Inscriptions

    Obituary Records 1961-1992 from Halifax Newspapers (220,000 indexed listings)
    Chris Young

    Lunenburg County Cemetery Inscriptions - 4 Volumes (SSGS)
    Chris Young

    Lunenburg/Queens County Cemetery Inscriptions - Volume 3 (SSGS)
    Lawrence Naugle



    Local Histories

    A History of Sherwood in the County of Lunenburg
    (Information on the Levy and Armstrong families of that area.)
    Mark Levy

    And Now We Remember, History of Barss Corner, Lunenburg Co, NS
    Kathy Kane



    Family Genealogies / Histories

    John Baptiste Bachman of Lunenburg Township, Nova Scotia (Bauckman)
    (BACHMAN)
    Catherine DiPietro

    Colonists of New England and Nova Scotia, Burgess and Heckman Families (Burgess)
    (BURGESS / HECKMAN)
    Catherine DiPietro

    Chester Basin Memories (Oxner)
    (COUNTWAY / CROFT / HENNIGAR / OXNER)
    Martha Farrar

    A Harnish Genealogy (Jones)
    (HARNISH)
    Kristen Minervino

    Hang On To Your Hatts (Hatt)
    (HATT)
    Gail Edwards

    Elsie Thoresen's Notebooks (Thoreson et al.)
    (HIRTLE / MEISNER / CORKUM / SNYDER / more)
    Vicky Ryan

    Elsie Thoresen's Notebooks (Thoreson et al.)
    (EISENHAUER)
    Judy Eisnor

    A History and Genealogy of the South Shore Langilles of Nova Scotia (Langille)
    (LANGILLE)
    Chris Young

    The North Shore Langilles of Nova Scotia (Byers)
    (LANGILLE)
    Bob Dickie

    Dickson and Leslie Family Histories (Dickson / Dickson)
    (LESLIE)
    Michael Partridge

    The Naas Family of Nova Scotia (Naas)
    (NAAS)
    Chris Young

    The Parks Family 1770-1987 (Parks / Mombourquette)
    (PARKS)
    Chris Young

    The Rafuse Family
    (RAFUSE)
    Chris Young

    Descendants of John Vaughan in Newport Rhode Island
    (Includes NS Vaughans)
    (VAUGHAN)
    Leslie Vaughn

    A Genealogy of the Westhaver Family 1490-1990 (Westhaver)
    (WESTHAVER / BUTLER / EISENHAUER / HIRTLE / KNOCK / LANGILLE / MADER / YOUNG)
    Chris Young

    Western Shore, Gold River, Martin's Point (Kaizer)
    (24 DIFFERENT FAMILY GENEALOGIES)
    Chris Young




    Information / Reference

    Canada Phone CD (8 million Canadian phone listings)
    Michael Partridge



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