Nova Scotia Online Genealogy Records

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 * width="100%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="center" colspan="6" style="padding:10px" | Nova Scotia Online Databases This chart shows links to province-wide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county, town, or parish), go to Locating Online Databases.
 * width="100%" bgcolor="#cc9999" align="center" colspan="6" style="padding:10px" | Nova Scotia Online Databases This chart shows links to province-wide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county, town, or parish), go to Locating Online Databases.
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 * Nova Scotia Genealogy Records Online, after general list, links by county, multiple record types
 * Île Royale, now Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Civil Registration and Parish Registers, 1715-1758, index and images.
 * Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954 ($)
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 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946], index and images, ($)
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946], index and images, ($)

Births
 * Index.
 * Births 1864-1877, 1908-1911 (delayed registrations 1830-1911) Index and images.
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 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1840-1917 ($)
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 * Family Bible Index (over 300,000 entries)

Marriages
 * Index.
 * Marriages - Bonds 1763-1864 Index and images.
 * Marriage Registrations 1864-1936 Index and images.
 * 1644 Nova Scotia, Canada, Marriages, 1763-1935 ($)
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Death
 * Deaths - 1864-1877, 1908-1961.
 * Deaths in the City of Halifax 1890-1908 Index and images.
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 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Deaths, 1864-1877, 1890-1965, index, ($)
 * Miners Memorial Database, Deaths, 1866-1967, index
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Divorces
 * Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, 1759-1960, index

Births, Marriages, and Deaths Acadians
 * Index only.
 * Novia Scotia Historical Birth, Marriage and Deaths Index and images.

Online Records

 * Généalogie Acadienne Database--Search Engine
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946], index and images, ($).
 * The Drouin Collection Database, ($)
 * The Acadia Families Tool
 * Acadian Family Names of the 18th Century
 * Who's who in Acadian/Cajun genealogical research
 * Acadian Censuses at WikiTree 1671-1809
 * Acadian Censuses at Acadian-Cajun Genealogy and History, 1671-1752
 * Headstones of mostly Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia cemeteries
 * Headstones of mostly Acadian New Brunswick and Nova Scotia cemeteries

African Nova Scotians
 * African Nova Scotians: in the Age of Slavery and Abolition, index
 * Book of Negroes, index
 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Book of Negroes, 1783, index, ($)

Archival Records
 * Nova Scotia GenWeb Projects

Cemeteries
 * Nova Scotia Canada Headstones
 * Several individual cemeteries on Cyndi's List

Census Church Records
 * See Canada Online Genealogy Records
 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, ($) index
 * Nova Scotia 1770 census ($).
 * and Nova Scotia, Census, 1800-1842,($) index
 * Nova Scotia 1838 Census Records, pdf
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 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Antigonish Catholic Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1823-1905, index and images, ($).
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 * Early U.S. French Catholic Church Records, 1695-1954 ($) (Ancestry).
 * Acadia, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1757-1946], index and images, ($)

Directories
 * Nova Scotia, Canada- Eastern District Telephone Directory, 1922, ($), index
 * McAlpine's Maritime Provinces Directory for 1870-71, images

Immigration Records
 * See Canada Online Genealogy Records
 * Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Vol. I ($)
 * Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, Vol. II ($)
 * Misc. Passenger Lists to Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1902 and 1906-1909, index

Land Records
 * Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia ($)
 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Land Petitions, 1765-1800, ($), index
 * Land Petitions Nova Scotia petitions 1769-1799 ~ Cape Breton Island petitions 1787-1843

Military Records
 * See Canada Online Genealogy Records
 * The Books of Remembrance

Newspapers
 * Clips and Snips: Genealogical Information from the Acadian Recorder
 * Nova Scotian Newspapers
 * Historical Canadian Newspapers Online: Nova Scotia, BGSU
 * The Halifax Gazette 1752-1780 (gaps)
 * The Nova-Scotia Gazette and the Weekly Chronicle aka The Royal Gazette 1783-1853
 * The Royal St. John's Gazette 1784-1799
 * St. John's Gazette 1784-1799
 * Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online

Obituaries
 * Canada Obituary Collection for Nova Scotia ($)
 * Nova Scotia Obituaries

Periodicals
 * PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($)

Probate Records
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Tax Records
 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, ($) index

Voting Lists
 * Nova Scotia, Canada, Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records, 1770-1795, 1827, ($) index
 * Poll tax rolls, 1791-1793, index
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